Christopher Sebastian Arul Swami (31 December 1913 – 22 October 1997), better known as C. S. A. Swami, was an Indian journalist and athlete.[1] He competed in the marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[2] Aged 22 in 1936, he was the youngest participant for India at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games.[3]
C. S. A. Swami
Personal information
Nationality
Indian
Born
(1913-12-31)31 December 1913 Ootacamund (Ooty), Tamilnadu, India
Died
22 October 1997(1997-10-22) (aged 84) Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
At the time of the Olympics, Swami had a personal best of 2 hours and 47 seconds in the marathon.[4] During the journey to Berlin, Swami caught paratyphoid in Malta. In Berlin, he was stretchered to the Olympic Village and then stayed in a hospital for three weeks. [5] The 100-pound Swami was described as the "smallest athlete in the games" by Lawson Robertson, the head coach of the American athletics team.[6]
Despite being frail, Swami started the Olympic marathon. Halfway through the race, he became ill. He collapsed at the finish and was carried back to the hospital.[7] Swami had a time of 3:10:44.0 and he was 37th among the 42 runners who completed the course. A further 18 runners, including the defending champion Juan Carlos Zabala, did not complete the race.[8]
Besides being a runner over several distances, Swami was a shooter, football coach and referee. He had a journalistic career in the Free Press Journal,Times of India and Indian Express. He joined Indian Express in 1947 and retired as the Chief Sports Editor in 1984.[7]
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^ abc"Arul Swami". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
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