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Bahadur Singh Chauhan

Indian athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4842259 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bahadur Singh Chauhan, born on 8 February 1946 in a Sikh Rajput family is a former Indian shot putter. Between 1973 and 1985 he won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the Asian Games and Championships. He placed 15th at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India.

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“Bahadur Singh Chauhan” enters the record as indian athlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bahadur, Singh and Chauhan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1973, 1985, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1946-02-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bahadur, Singh and Chauhan.
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“Bahadur Singh Chauhan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bahadur, Singh and Chauhan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4842259. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 1973, 1985 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bahadur Singh Chauhan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.