SAMSHEER KHAN then youth with gold medals and trophy
SAMSHEER KHAN PRESENT PIC
Olympian samsheer khan born in islampur toun of guntur dist andhra pradesh india
Olympian samsheer khan is struggling to cheat sources of
income to meet his own medical expenses
Today the hot head lines in each and every news paper and
T.V channels across the globe telecasting the news of Olympics London 2012,
Now the Olympics London 2012, is on this year 11200 participants
will applying this time the highest / major number of participant are from India
Now the Olympics London 2012 this is the costliest Olympics
ever before with over 15 Arab dollar expenses
It is said that if any participant brought / win golden shield to India
,Each winner of golden shield will get a
15 crores Rupees from government of India
not just that Sahara India is planning to give 5 kg gold in addition to this different
private companies is eagerly waiting to cash and kind awards
The story behind this is this year Olympics
London 2012 got more potential support from India but still today our Indian Participant
but still today our Indian participant had not shown blowing result where as
each on participant crores of Rs has been spent on the coaching but India has
no respect of
the Olympian
winner California 1955 Olympics 200 mts butter fly swim and
melbrone Olympics 1956 swimming 200 mts etc…,
not just that samsheer
khan also serve our Indian army and fight in the war with china in the year 1962 and in 1971 with Pakistan and Bangladesh
separation
In what is a matter of great dishonor to the first swimmer
who represented India at the Olympics, the Swimming Federation of India
(SFI) has not only forgotten Shamsher Khan's feat but bestowed the
honour of being the first Indian swimmer to have qualified for an
Olympic event on Sandeep Sejwal. Shamsher had finished fifth at the
Melbourne Games of 1956, more than 50 years before new-generation hero
Sejwal secured a poor 36th in the preliminary rounds at the Beijing Olympics of 2008.
A forgotten hero now, Shamsher represented India half-a-century ago
when few of his countrymen would have even dreamt of swimming beyond
their local pools.
At 82, Shamsher, a native of Kaithepalli near Repalle in Guntur district, struggles to make both ends meet.
"Unfortunately, no sports body has granted me either a pension or a
reward. On more than one occasion, I have done the rounds of government
offices and ran from pillar to post including government offices several
times
for financial assistance, only after my house was washed
away in the 1990 cyclone. But very little help came my way. I have
stopped meeting officials as they do not know how to respect an
Olympian," Shamsher told TOI.
Younger son Shah Ali said that his father had suffered a stroke two years back.
"But he refuses to take drugs keeping in view our poor financial
condition. He tells people that he is surviving because he is a
champion," says Ali, who works as a mason.
Shamsher set a
national record in the 200-metre butterfly in 1954 and swept all records
at the national meet in Bangalore in 1955, earning himself a ticket to
the Melbourne Olympics. He participated in both the butterfly and
breaststroke events at Melbourne.
"The Indian government sponsored the airfare to Melbourne but it was later deducted from my salary.
"All the same, I am thankful to the government for allowing me to be a part of such a glorious event," Shamsher said.
But he rues the fact that his name was missing on the SFI list.
District sports development officer Venkateswara Rao says it is no mean
achievement to qualify for the Olympics.
"The current crop of
swimmers, despite having international coaches and world-class
facilities, struggle to even qualify for the preliminary rounds.
"Here you have a sportsman from a remote village in Guntur who took part
in the Olympics way back in 1956. We all have reason to be proud of
Shamsher Khan," he observed. Fateemunissa, the octogenarian Olympian's
wife, says it is shocking that her husband was not recognized for his
exploits in the swimming pool.
"My husband used to spend a major
part of his salary on swimming competitions at the national and
international level. He used to tell me that he was doing it to win
laurels for the nation. We are all proud of him but no sports body or
government has bothered about him or his family," she complains.
Shamsher joined the Indian Army as a teen and took part in the Indo-China war in 1962 and the war with Pakistan in 1971.
Today he is in such a
situation that he requests through a news paper that he need an help from the
state /central government or from the people,
you can also get him tuch by phone # 08978421144,
You can donate him by depositing the a/c number mention on
the news paper ARTICLE PHOTO
a/c # 11090642350
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