Abdul Khaliq (athlete)

Abdul Khaliq Flying Bird of Asia

Abdul Khaliq The Fastest Man of Asia
Personal information
Nickname(s)	The Flying bird of Asia
Nationality	Pakistani
Born	29 November 1933
Died	10 March 1988 (aged 54) Rawalpindi
Education	Matric
Occupation	Track and field Athlete
Years active	1950–1962
Employer	Pakistan Army and also National Athletics Coach at National Sports Trust, Pakistan
Sport
Country	Pakistan
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100m, 200m, 4*100m, 100y, 110y, 200y, 220y,
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m : 10.2 (1959, GR) 200 m : 20.8 (1956)
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing  Pakistan Asian Games 1954 Manila 100m 1954 Manila 4x100 m relay 1958 Tokyo 100m 1958 Tokyo 200m 1958 Tokyo 4x100 m relay
Updated on 2 April 2014.

Subedar Abdul Khaliq
Buried at	Jand
Allegiance	PAK
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1948–1978
Rank	Subedar
Unit	Artillery Regiment
Battles/wars	1965,1971
Awards	Pride of Performance

Abdul Khaliq (Urdu: صوبیدارعبدالخالق پرندہ ایشیاء‎)(Subedar Abdul Khaliq, Parinda e Asia) (23 March 1933 – 10 March 1988)^[1] "The Flying bird of Asia" as called by Jawaharlal Nehru was a Pakistani sprinter who won 36 International Gold Medals, 15 International Silver Medals & 12 International Bronze Medals for Pakistan.^[2] He competed in 100m, 200m and 4 x 100 metres relay. He participated in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and 1960 Rome Olympics and also in 1954 Asian Games & 1958 Asian Games. He was included in the top seven athletes of the time.^{[3] [4]} His younger brother, Captain Abdul Malik also participated 1960 Rome Olympics. He was born in a small village "Jand" in district Chakwal Punjab Pakistan and died on 10 March 1988 in Rawalpindi.^[1]

International career

1954

1954 Asian Games

During 1954 Asian Games, Abdul Khaliq set a new record of 10.6 seconds in a 100 meters race by beating the previous record of 10.8 seconds held by Lavy Pinto of India. Abdul Khaliq was dubbed as Fastest Man of Asia.^[5][6] The then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who was the chief guest dubbed him as "The Flying Bird of Asia".^[7] Abdul Khaliq was 21 years old when he was dubbed as "The Fastest Man of Asia & The Flying Bird of Asia" Abdul Khaliq was also the 1st man of Asian games who was dubbed with the title of "Fastest Man of Asia." He was also one and only athlete of Pakistan who was dubbed as fastest man of Asia. With the contribution of Abdul Khaliq Pakistan got 4th place in 1954 Asian games with the help of 13 Medals.^[2][8][9]

  100m Gold Medal
  4 * 100m Relay 		Silver Medal

• Represented World Military Games held at Canada

Commonwealth and British Empire Games

  100y Semi-finalist
  4*110yards Finalist[2]

1955

• Represented the World Military Games at Athens (Greece)

1956

Indo-Pak Meet at Delhi

Abdul Khaliq created new Asian records in both the 100 and 200 meters events. Abdul Khaliq won 100m dash by defeating Indian athlete V.K. Rai.

  100m Gold Medal (10.4sec New Pakistan & Asian Record)

Abdul Khaliq triumphed in 200m race and defeated Lavy Pinto of India. Muhammad Sharif Butt broke the record of 200m in 22.0 seconds held by lavy Pinto in 1954 Asian games. at the 21.9 sec. Later on this record was broken by Abdul Khaliq.

  200m Gold Medal (21.4 sec New Pakistan & Asian Record)[2]

World Military Games at Berlin

Abdul Khaliq Finished third in the Final of the 100m with 10.4 sec which was equal to his Delhi timing.^[2][10]

   100m	      Bronze Medal 10.5 secs.
   200m		 Bronze Medal 21.4 secs
 4*100m	         Bronze Medal

Pakistan Athletics Training Program in England

Sub. Abdul Khaliq the Fastest Man of Asia defeated Britain Number 1 and Number 2 Shanton and Spooner in the both of Sprints.^[2][10][11]

 100yards  	Gold Medal (10.1 sec)

He won 100 Yards in 10.1 sec in an international meet in high land games on a turf track which was rendered wet due to incessant rains in the morning. Here he defeated athletes from 15 countries of Europe. Some of the leading coaches described it as a very good performance and said it was equal to 9.5 sec on a cinder track.

Victorian Relay Championship

Abdul Khaliq produced a scintillating 100 meters race in 10.4 seconds, equalling the Australian National record at Olympics Park. Khaliq's was only one-tenth of a second Outside of Bobby Morrow's Gold Medal in Olympics games 100m Final. On 24 November 1956 Saturday (The day of Semi-final and Final of 100m in Melbourne Olympics 1956) Abdul Khaliq had to run two hard races on the same day as "Anchor Man" for the Winning Pakistan Team in 4*110-yard in Victorian Relay Championship before Tackling 100m dash of Semi-final of 1956 Melbourne Olympics Games. With Khaliq Running the last leg the Pakistan Team, romped home 10 yards clear in the Final clocking 41.6 seconds, one-tenth of a seconds outside of the national record held by the Australian Olympics team.^[12]

100m 10.4 seconds (Gold Medal)
4*110yards 41.6 seconds (Gold Medal)

Melbourne Olympics

In the 1956 Abdul Khaliq was at his best. He reached to the level of Semi-finals of both the events 100m and 200m races.But he unfortunately failed to reach to the finals.in 200m race his performance was outstanding he finished the race in 21.1 sec in both rounds. 21.1 seconds is best time of all rounds exempt of final. His performance placed him in top most seven athletes of the time^{[2][10] [13] [14] [15] [16][17]}

100 Metres
First Round, Heat 3 (The first two in each heat qualified for the second round.)

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Morrow	USA	10.7
2	A. Khaliq	Pakistan	10.8
3	M. Steinbach	Germany	10.8
4	R. Romero	Venezuela	10.9
5	E. Iglesias	Cuba	11.3

Second Round, Heat 2 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Semi-finals.)

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	I. J. Murchison	USA	10.3 EOR
2	A. Khaliq	Pakistan	10.5
3	I. Konovalov	USSR	10.7
4	L. Gnocchi	Italy	10.8
5	E. Turton	Trinidad	11.2
6	B. K. Nguda	Uganda	12.8

On Same day Abdul Khaliq come after running 4*110 yards from Victorian Relay Championship. It will become very difficult to run 100m dash for him. He could not perform his best because of not proper rest.
Semi-final, Heat 1 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Final)

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	I. J. Murchison	USA	10.5
2	M. Agostini	Trinidad	10.5
3	M. Germar	Germany	10.6
4	A. Khaliq	Pakistan	10.6
5	S. A. Levenson	Canada	10.7
6	I. Konovalov	USSR	10.8

200 Metres
First Round, Heat 5 (The first two in each heat qualified for the second round.)

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	A. Khaliq	Pakistan	21.1
2	M. L. Rae	New Zealand	21.4
3	J. Pires Sobrinho	Brazil	21.6
4	T. A. Robinson	Bahamas	21.6
5	S. Jakabfy	Hungary	21.6
6	M. Spence	Jamaica	21.7

Second Round, Heat 1 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Semi-finals.)

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	A. Khaliq	Pakistan	21.1
2	M. Agostini	Trinidad	21.1
3	L. Pohl	Germany	21.3
4	L. Bartenev	USSR	21.4
5	B. Goldoványi	Hungary	21.5
6	E. Schmidt	Poland	21.6

Semi-final, Heat 1 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Final)

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	W. T. Backer	USA	21.1
2	B. Morrow	USA	21.3
3	J. Telles da Conceicao	Brazil	21.4
4	A. Khaliq	Pakistan	21.5
5	K. Haas	Germany	21.5
6	M. L. Rae	New Zealand	21.5

4*100 Metres Raley
Round One, Heat 1 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Next Round) Athletes from the following five Countries Participated in this round.
1. United States 2. Great Britain 3. Pakistan 4. Venezuela 5. Liberia

1st Part	2nd Part	3rd Part	4th Part	Time
Thane Baker	Leamon King	Bobby Joe Morrow	Ira Murchison	40.5s
Kenneth Box	Roy Sandstrom	David Segal	Brian Shenton	41.2s
Abdul Aziz	Muhamad Sharif Butt	Abdul Khaliq	Ghulam Raziq	41.3s[15]
Alfonso Bruno	Clive Bonas	Rafael Romero	Apolinar Solorzano	42.0s
George Johnson	Edward Martins	Emmanuel Gbecy Putu	James Roberts	47.7s

Semi-final, Heat 2 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Next Round) Athletes from the following six Countries Participated in this round.
1. Soviet Union 2. Germany 3. Great Britain 4. Australia 5. Pakistan 6. Japan

1st Part	2nd Part	3rd Part	4th Part	Time
Leonid Bartenev	Yuri Konovalov	Vladimir Soukharev	Boris Tokarev	40.3s
Heinz Futterer	Manfred Germar	Lothar Knorzer	Leonhard Pohl	40.5s
Kenneth Box	Roy Sandstrom	David Segal	Brian Shenton	40.6s
Gavin Carragher	Hector Hogan	Raymond Land	Edward McGlynn	40.8s
Abdul Aziz	Muhamad Sharif Butt	Abdul Khaliq	Ghulam Raziq	40.8s
Kanji Akagi	Akira Kiyofuji	Masaji Tajima	Kyohei Ushio	41.3s

          100m		 Semi-finalist[16]
          200m		 Semi-finalist (21.1 Sec New Pakistan record)[16]
         4*100m 	 Semi-finalist (40.8 sec new Pakistan record)[16]

Final Standing in Melbourne Olympics

Rank	Athlete	Age	Team	NOC	Medal
1	Bobby Joe Morrow	21	United States	USA	Gold
2	Thane Baker	25	United States	USA	Silver
3	Hec Hogan	25	Australia	AUS	Bronze
4	Ira Murchison	23	United States	USA
5	Manfred Germar	21	Germany	GER
6	Mike Agostini	21	Trinidad and Tobago	TTO
4 h1 r3/4	Abdul Khaliq	23	Pakistan	PAK[13]
4 h2 r3/4	Morrie Rae	21	New Zealand	NZL
5 h1 r3/4	Stan Levenson	18	Canada	CAN
5 h2 r3/4	Marian Foik	23	Poland	POL

1957

World Military Games Athen

In 100m meters Abdul Khaliq got 2nd position and was beaten by USA Pakistan secured fifth position.^[2][10]

             100m 		Silver Medal

Tehran (Iran)

             100m 		Gold Medal (in the time of 10.8 sec)
             200m 		Gold Medal (22 sec)

Manchester Athletics Meet

Abdul Khaliq Equaled the British all-comer record of 9.6 sec for the 100-yard sprints. He won by inches from American B.Thomes.1^[2]

        100 yards	(9.6 sec)

Dublin Athletics Meet

Hav. Abdul Khaliq Won the 100 yards dash at 9.8 sec. He Beat Britain's D. Roberts.^[2]

            100 yards   	(9.8 sec)

Glasgow Rangers Sports

Abdul Khaliq won 2 events. Abdul Khaliq Clocked 11.6 seconds in 120 yards handicap in which he started from scratch. In 220 yards he was too strong, for British Runner. He beat Shenton who returned 22.0 second.^[2]

           120 yards	        (11.6sec)
           220 yards	        (21.8sec)

Highland Games Edinburg (Scatland)

Participated in 100 yards and got first Position.^[2]

      100 yards 	(9.9sec)

London

Abdul Khaliq finished close second to Brittan's R. Sandsorm in a 100m dash.^[2]

       100m		(10.6sec)

1958

British Empire and Commonwealth Games Cardif

      100yards Semi-finalist (9.8sec)

1958 Asian Games at Tokyo

Abdul Khaliq participated in 3rd Asian games at Tokyo. He defended his title in 100m race.^[2][18] Abdul Khaliq won 100m race by defeating Kyohei Ushio of Japan. Abdul Khaliq won 3 medals in 3rd Asian Games. With the Khaliq's contribution Pakistan secured 2nd position in Athletics and 6th in overall ranking.

      100m	             Gold Medal (10.88sec) 
      200m 		Silver Medal (21.7)
     4*100m 	        Bronze Medal.

Dual Empire Games

Abdul Khaliq was 3rd in the 100 yards.^[2]

     100yards	        Bronze Medal (9.9sec)

London

Abdul Khaliq won 220 yards in 21.5 seconds.^[2]

      220yards Gold Medal 21.5 seconds

1959

Goetburgh (Sweden)

In 100m race Abdul Khaliq was 4th.^[2]

Malmo

In the 100m race Abdul Khaliq was third.^[2]

Stockholm

   100m 10.7sec[2][10]
   200m 21.6sec

Gavel

Abdul Khaliq Finished behind Abdon Saye of France in 21.9 seconds in 200m.^[2]

Boraas

Abdul Khaliq took 200m dash in 21.7 sec.^[2]

   200m 21.7sec

Gothenburg

Abdul Khaliq was second in 100m one tenth of a second behind the winner.^[2]

   100m 10.8sec

Bradford (England)

Abdul Khaliq won the 100 yards race clocking 10.1sec^[2]

   100yards	Gold Medal (10.1 sec)

International Meet at Dublin

Abdul Khaliq triumphed in the 220 yards clocking 22.2 sec to win.

Glasgow (Scotland)

Abdul Khaliq won the 120 yards sprint in the 11.6sec.

1960

World Olympics 1960 at (Rome)

100 Metres
First Round, Heat 2 (The first three in each heat qualified for the second round.)
Abdul Khaliq had passed his peek time so he could not qualify for the next round.

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Seraphino Antao	KEN	10.5s
2	Armin Hary	GER	10.6s
3	Heinz Mueller	SUI	10.8s
4	Gustav Ntiforo	GHA	11.0s
5	Isaac Gomez	PHI	11.0s
6	Dennis Tipping	AUS	11.2s
7	Abdul Khaliq	PAK	11.2s[19]

4*100 Metres Raley
Round One, Heat 3 (The first three in each heat qualified for the Next Round) Athletes from the following five Countries Participated in this round.
1. Germany 2. Pakistan 3. Poland 4. Grece

1st Part	2nd Part	3rd Part	4th Part	Time
Bernd Cullmann	Armin Hary	Walter Mahlendorf	Martin Lauer	39.5s
Ioannis Komitoudis	Constantin Lolos	Leonidas Kormalis	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	41.6s
Abdul Malik	Muhamad Ramzan Ali	Ghulam Raziq	Abdul Khaliq	42.5s[20]
Marian Foik	Janusz Jarzembowski	Jozef Schmidt	Jerzy Juskowiak	DQ

Cairo

   100m Gold Medal
   200m Gold Medal

International Meet at Lahore

   100m 10.4 seconds Gold medal
            (Fastest Man of the Meet)
   200m Bronze Medal
  4*100m 41.5 seconds Gold Medal[10]

1962

World Milary Games (Holland)

  100m Bronze Medal

International Meet in Ipoh (Malaysia)

  100m	    Silver Medal
  200m	    Bronze Medal

1962 Asian Games at Jakarta

In 100 Meters Pakistan's both entries failed to qualify for the final. Holder of the previous two meets, Abdul Khaliq, finished fourth in the semi-final with 10.7 seconds.
In 200 Abdul Khaliq Qualify for semi-final but did not produced the same to qualify for finals.

Coaching career

Athletic Coaches Clinic Attended

 1967 at Murree for 6 weeks under German Coach
 1974 at Hassan Abdal under USA Coaches
 1976 at Lahore under Russian Coaches
 1981 at Rawalpindi under I.O.C Coaches

Coaching

Abdul Khaliq in middle with Dr. Abdul Waheed Mughal and International Coaches in 1987 at West Germany

• Army Coach 1965,1966,1967,1970 & 1971
• Punjab 1974 & 1975
• National Coach 1974,1975,1976,1977 & 1978
• Joined National Sports Trust Asian Athletics Coach 23 December 1975
• Punjab Sports Board Teachers Clinics
• National Coaches Clinic 1976
• Local PTI Clinic Lahore 1979

Achievements

Medals

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 y	09	0	02
120 y	02	0	0
100 m	13	08	04
220 y	02	01	01
200 m	07	04	04
4*110 y	01	0	0
4*100 m	02	02	01

International Medals
Discipline				Total
Athletics (sport)	36	15	12	63

Abdul Khaliq's Statue in Ayub Park Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Presidential Award

Abdul Khaliq was given the Presidential Award Pride of Performance in 1958 by President Ayub Khan for his achievements.

Medals (International)

Sr. No.	Year	Venue	Country	Competitions	Event	Medal	Time
Represented  Pakistan
1	1954	Manila	Philippines	2nd Asian Games	100m	Gold	10.6sec (New Asian Record)
2	1954	Manila	Philippines	2nd Asian Games	4*100m	Silver	41.5 sec
3	1954	Madawala	England	Triangular Meet	100m	Gold
4	1956	Delhi	India	Pakistan vs India	100m	Gold	10.4sec (New Asian Record) (New Pakistan Record)
5	1956	Delhi	India	Pakistan vs India	200m	Gold	21.4sec (New Asian Record) (New Pakistan Record)
6	1956	Delhi	India	Pakistan vs India	4*100m	Silver
7	1956	Berlin	Germany	International Military Track and Field Championship	100m	Bronze	10.4sec
8	1956	Berlin	Germany	International Military Track and Field Championship	200m	Bronze	21.4/10sec
9	1956	England	England	Pakistan Athlatics Training Programme	100y	Gold	10.1sec
10	1956	London	England	England National Competitions	100m	Silver
11	1956	Edenburgh	Highland	Highland Games	100y	Gold
12	1956	Kelang	Australia	International Meet Australia	200m	Silver
13	1956	Vicotria	Australia	Victorian Relay Championship	100m	Gold	10.4 sec
13	1956	Vicotria	Australia	Victorian Relay Championship	4* 100m	Gold	41.6 sec
13	1956	Bandigo	Australia	International Meet Australia	100m	Bronze
14	1956	England	England	Victorian Open Competitions	100m	Gold
15	1957	White City	England	London vs New York	100y	Gold
16	1957	White City	England	London vs New York	100m	Gold	10.6sec
17	1957	Glasgow	England	Rangers Meet	120y	Gold	11.6sec
18	1957	Glasgow	England	Rangers Meet	220y	Gold	21.8sec
19	1957	Manchester	England	International Competitions	100y	Gold	9.6sec
20	1957	Manchester	England	Open Meet	100y	Gold
21	1957	Dublin	England	Irish International Meet	100y	Gold
22	1957	Tehran	Iran	Pak Iran Competitions	100m	Gold	10.8sec
23	1957	Tehran	Iran	Pak Iran Competitions	200m	Gold	22sec
24	1957	Tehran	Iran	Pak Iran Competitions	4*100m	Gold	40.8sec
25	1957	Aten	Greece	World Military Meet Athens	100m	Silver
26	1957	Edinburgh	Scotland	Highland Games	100y	Gold	9.9sec
27	1958	Tokyo	Japan	Japan International	100m	Silver
28	1958	Hong Kong	China	International Meet	100m	Gold
29	1958	Tokyo	Japan	3rd Asian Games	100m	Gold	10.9sec
30	1958	Tokyo	Japan	3rd Asian Games	200m	Silver	21.7sec
31	1958	Tokyo	Japan	3rd Asian Games	4*100m	Bronze	41.5
32	1958	Edinburgh	Scotland	Dual Empire Games	100y	Bronze	9.9sec
33	1959	Bradford	England	International Meet England	100y	Gold	10.1sec
34	1959	Bradford	England	International Meet England	220y	Silver
35	1959	Bright Hill	England	International Meet England	100y	Gold
36	1959	Delin	Irish	Irish International Meet	100m	Gold
37	1959	Delin	Irish	Irish International Meet	200m	Gold
38	1959	Cardif	Wales	Wales International	100m	Gold
39	1959	Cardif	Wales	Wales International	200m	Gold
40	1959	Glasgow	England	International Meet	120y	Gold	11.6sec
41	1959	Malmo	Sweden	International Meet	100m	Silver
42	1959	Malmo	Sweden	International Meet	200m	Silver
43	1959	Gavel	Sweden	International Meet	200m	Silver	21.9sec
44	1959	Stockholm	Sweden	International Meet	100m	Silver	10.7sec
45	1959	Stockholm	Sweden	International Meet	200m	Bronze	21.6sec
46	1959	Boras	Sweden	International Meet	200m	Gold
47	1959	Gothenburgh	Sweden	International Meet	100m	Silver	21.8sec
48	1959	Edinburgh	Highland	Highland Games	100m	Silver
49	1959	Dublin	Ireland	International Track and Field Meet	220y	Gold	22.2sec
50	1959	Cardif	Wales	International Dual Meet	100y	Bronze	10sec
51	1959	Cardif	Wales	International Dual Meet	220y	Bronze
52	1959	Maimoe	Sweden	International Meet	100m	Bronze
53	1960	Lahore	Pakistan	First youth Festival and Trianguler International Meet	100m	Gold	10.4sec
54	1960	Lahore	Pakistan	First youth Festival and Trianguler International Meet	200m	Bronze
55	1960	Lahore	Pakistan	First youth Festival and Trianguler International Meet	4*100m	Gold	41.5sec
56	1960	Medawala	England	International Games	200m	Gold
57	1960	Cario	Egypt	Egypt International Games	100m	Gold
58	1960	Cario	Egypt	Egypt International Games	200m	Gold
59	1962	Holand	Holand	World Military Games	100m	Bronze
60	1962	Ipoh	Malaysia	International Meet	100m	Silver
61	1962	Ipoh	Malaysia	International Meet	200m	Bronze	22.1sec

Running statistics

Event	Year	Venue	Time
100y	1957	Manchester	9.6
100y	1957	Edinburgh(Scotland)	9.9
100y	1958	Edinburgh(Scotland)	9.9
100m	1959	Rawalpindi	10.2
100m	1956	Abottabad	10.2
100m	1957	Sialkot	10.3
100m	1954	Delhi	10.4
100m	1956	Berlin(Germini)	10.4
100m	1960	Lahore (Pakistan)	10.4
100m	1956	Manila	10.6
100m	1957	White city (England)	10.6
100m	1958	Tokyo (Japan)	10.6
100m	1957	Tehran(Iran)	10.8
120y	1957	Glasgow (England)	11.6
120y	1959	Glasgow (England)	11.6
200m	1956	Abottabad	20.8
200m	1956	Melborne	21.1
200m	1954	Delhi (India)	21.4
200m	1959	Stockholm(Sweden)	21.6
200m	1956	Berlin(Germini)	21.4
220y	1958	London	21.5
220y	1958	Glasgow (England)	21.8

External links

Official Page Abdul Khaliq Flying Bird of Asia

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