Running Legend Hari Chand Passed Away

India's long-distance running legend Hari Chand has passed away on 13 June 2022.

He was a two-time Olympian and also won two gold medals at the 1978 Bangkok Asian Games.
He had finished first in the 5000m and 10000m races in Bangkok Asiad.
He had also created a national record for the 25-lapper set in the 1976 Olympic Games and it had stood for 32 years.
In the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, he had come eighth in the 2nd Heat in 10,000-metre race with a time of 28:48.72.
It was with this time that the national record was created for an Indian athlete and it was broken 32 years later by Surendra Singh.
In the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he had stood at the 10th place in the heats of 10,000-metre race.