World’s oldest marathon runner finally hangs up his trainers aged 101 after completing a 10km race in a sprightly 92 minutes
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 25, 2013 16:31The world’s oldest marathon runner ran his last race on Sunday at the age of 101.
Fauja Singh finished the Hong Kong marathon’s 10km (6.25 mile) race in a time of one hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds.
Mr Singh, a Sikh, completed the race accompanied by runners from Hong Kong’s Sikh community, joining about 72,000 other runners taking part in the marathon.
The Indian-born runner, nicknamed the Turbaned Torpedo, had said that he would hang up his trainers after the race in the southern Chinese city, just before his 102nd birthday.
‘I will remember this day. I will miss it,’ Mr Singh said minutes after crossing the finish line.
Mr Singh, a great-grandfather, became the oldest man to run a full marathon at Toronto in 2011, at the age of 100.
But his record was not recognized by Guinness World Records because he doesn’t have a birth certificate to prove his age.
Mr Singh has a British passport that shows his date of birth as April 1, 1911, while a letter from Indian government officials states that birth records were not kept in 1911.
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