Biography

Fauja Singh BEM is a British Sikh centenarian marathon runner of Punjabi Indian descent. He has beaten a number of world records in multiple age brackets, but none of his times have been ratified as records. His current personal best time for the London Marathon (2003) is 6 hours 2 minutes, and his marathon record, for age 90-plus, is 5 hours 40 minutes at the age of 92, at the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon. On October 16, 2011, Singh became the first 100-year-old to finish a marathon, completing the Toronto Waterfront Marathon. However, Guinness World Records refused to include Singh in its record book because he could not produce his bi...Read More