Manjit
Singh was born in village Bharta near Mahilpur, district Hoshiarpur, Punjeb,
India on 10 march 1950.
He was only 3 months old when his Mom died and left him
without any brothers or sisters.
His father Amar Singh was in the Indian Army He
was brought up by his grand-mom, Raj Kaur and grandfather Banta Singh.
At the early age he had to go through many pains and difficulties due
to poverty. He had no shoe to wear in the scorching heat of 40c when going
to school about 3 miles everyday. He had to run from one tree shade to
another to avoid the feet being burnt.
He studied his higher secondary education from government boys higher
secondary school, Mahilpur. he wanted to go to collage for further education
but had no fee of Rupees 140 to pay as collage
admission. He worked one month with a tube-well company to earn Rupees
142. He finished his BA in economics and english with good marks. He got
BA B Ed from Ramgarhia Collage Phagwara in 1973.
During
School days he started lifting stones for fun and to let his friends
know how strong he was. He carried on this fun during collage in the
form of weightlifting. He became national
champion forweightlifting in 1973 at the age 23. He joined the Indian
Police Force in 1974
when he could not get a Government Teaching job. He worked in the Police
for two years and left the country for the United Kingdom to get married
to his wife Mahinder Kaur.
On 15 January 1977 he landed at Heathrow Airport to see both heavy snow
and his wife first time. He got married on 29th January 1977. This was
the start of his struggle as a household person. He first worked in
the British United shoe machenery on Belgrave Road, Leicester as an
electro plater. He worked there for three years till 1980 and then went
to British shoe corporation where he worked as a stacker (heavy job)
those days he joined Sugar's Gym in Leicester to get some physique.
He did good training in the gym everyone was wondering to see a small
man lifting huge weights. He use to go to work at 6am till 2pm daily.
At 3pm he was going to the Gym for one hour daily. He worked their till
June 1986.
He
left his job to start his own business as ladies shoe manufacturing with
the help of lotus shoes and Peter Black. He used to make the lower parts
for the companies and had 7 staff along side his wife who had four children
by 1986, daughter Gulninder Kaur born on the 23rd
February 1978,son Satminder Singh on 4 February 1979, son Jatinder Singh
on 7th March 1983
and last but not least the lovely girl Daljinder Kaur born on 3rd August
1986.
While looking after his family and business he succeeded to get his name
in the Guinness book
First time doing 1,687 Parallel bar dips in one hour in October 1987.
After this Manjit did not look back and setup 43 world records in speed
and stamina endurances
Events Scheduled
Pulling a double-decker bus with your right ear for 25 metres is not exactly everyone’s idea of fun. But for Manjit Singh, it’s become a way of life.
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Ironman Manjit Singh proved he thought politicians were more than just hot air by making a bang for his chosen candidate.
The record-breaker inflated and burst a hot water bottle as he announced his backing of independent mayoral candidate Rick Moore.
.| 139 parallel bar dips in 1 min | Sep1998 | |
| Used lung power to inflate a ballon to 8ft | Sep | 1998 |
| ate 271 cold peas with a cocktail stick in 3 minutes | Dec | 1998 |
| ate 195 sweetcorn pieces with a coctail stick in three minutes | Dec | 1989 |
| 4,135 step-ups in one hour | April | 1999 |
| pulled 2 double-decker buses over 6ft using his hair | Aug | 1999 |
| 152 press-ups in one minute | Aug | 1999 |
| 124 parallel bar dips in 1 min | Jun | 1996 | pulled an 11-tonne bus more than 50 metres | Mar | 2000 |