Fauja Singh, the world’s oldest marathon, died at the age of 114 after a car was shot

An Indian-born athlete Fauja Singh, who believed that the world’s oldest marathon athlete, died after a car was shot. It was 114.

Local Media in India, Singh, in Punjab, passing through the road in his village near Jalandhar, said he was injured in an accident on Monday. Then he was taken to the hospital where he died.

His London-based club and charity, densely in the city confirmed the death.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “The unique personnel and the youth of India are” extraordinary “in the order of a very important inseme in the order of very important inseme.

“He was an exceptional athlete with incredibly strongly,” he said. “PENED with his passage. My thoughts with their family and countless fans of the world.”

Singh, in 2011, in Toronto, was the oldest man to run a full marathon in the 100 years old. His achievement was not recognized by the World Records of Ginness, because there was no birth certificate to prove his age. Singh spent a British passport showing birth history on April 1, 1911, a letter from the officials of the Indian government said no birth notes were kept in 1911.

The sad big worker worked

The 2012 London Olympics fled 89 years old, Singh, Singh, 89 years old, as a way to pass through the rapid sequence of India and his son.

Death in 1994, he took a particularly heavy money for his defective nature on him. Singh and his son Kuldip, both farmer kuldip, mixed the fields in the middle of a piece of corrugated metal that exploded with the wind.

Singh, who owned the other five children, was left alone.

“He did not think that his life was worth living without his son,” Harmander Singh said his head coach.

Fauja Singh went to live with his youngest son in London and met with some Sikh Marathon runners who encouraged to take long distance runs.

In the age of 89, he continued to make the London marathon, the first and eighers of the London. The best time was five hours and 40 minutes in the 2003 Toronto marathon.

“Many success and happiness from a tragedy came,” Singh said.

Singh, Hong Kong Marathon finished the 10-kilometer race for the 10-kilometer race for an hour, 32 minutes 28 seconds, in 2013 fled the last competition at the age of 101.

After retiring from the competition, Singh said he hoped “people will remember me.” He also asked people to continue to invite him to the events not to forget about not completely forgetting me completely. “