100 and still running
13 years, 5 months ago

100 and still running

The Hindu  

Fauja Singh, a 100-year-old runner of Indian-origin, has set a Guinness record of being the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon here. It took Mr. Singh over eight hours to cross the finish line, more than six hours after Kenya's Kenneth Mungara won the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon on Sunday for the fourth straight year. “Beating his original prediction, he's overjoyed,” his coach and translator Harmander Singh was quoted as saying by the Toronto Star. “Earlier, just before we came around the corner, he said, “Achieving this will be like getting married again.” “He is absolutely overjoyed, he has achieved his life-long wish,” the coach added.

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