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These guys stand that neat little theory triumphantly on its head. Here we have Fauja Singh, 98, Armuc SIngh, 79, Karnail Singh, 80 and Ajit Singh, 79, just about to compete in this year’s Edinburgh marathon. Says Fauja: “Elderly people are a little like children. They like attention.”
TORONTO – The amazing, blazing Sikh Fauja Singh is still defying his 100-year age and this past weekend became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.
The UK-based Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records for his accomplishment.
It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line, more than six hours after Kenya’s Kenneth Mungara won the event for the fourth straight year and he was the last competitor to complete the course.
But his time wasn’t nearly as remarkable as the accomplishment.
Event workers dismantled the barricades along the finish line and took down sponsor banners even as Singh made his way up the final few hundred yards of the race.
Family, friends and supporters greeted Singh when he finished the race.
“Beating his original prediction, he’s overjoyed,” said coach and translator Harmander Singh. “Earlier, just before we came around the (final) corner, he said, ‘Achieving this will be like getting married again.’
“He’s absolutely overjoyed, he’s achieved his life-long wish.”
Conservative MP Parm Gill, MP (Brampton-Springdale) recognize the incredible Fauja Singh in the House of Commons on Monday, saying the centenarian runner broke nine world age group records this past week in Toronto.
Article source : The link paper
TORONTO – The amazing, blazing Sikh Fauja Singh is still defying his 100-year age and this past weekend became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.
The UK-based Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records for his accomplishment.
It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line, more than six hours after Kenya’s Kenneth Mungara won the event for the fourth straight year and he was the last competitor to complete the course.
But his time wasn’t nearly as remarkable as the accomplishment.
Event workers dismantled the barricades along the finish line and took down sponsor banners even as Singh made his way up the final few hundred yards of the race.
Family, friends and supporters greeted Singh when he finished the race.
“Beating his original prediction, he’s overjoyed,” said coach and translator Harmander Singh. “Earlier, just before we came around the (final) corner, he said, ‘Achieving this will be like getting married again.’
“He’s absolutely overjoyed, he’s achieved his life-long wish.”
Conservative MP Parm Gill, MP (Brampton-Springdale) recognize the incredible Fauja Singh in the House of Commons on Monday, saying the centenarian runner broke nine world age group records this past week in Toronto.
Article source : The link paper
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