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101-Year-Old Marathon Runner Calls it Quits

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For Fauja Singh, a 10K run in China marked the end of his competitive running career.

Singh is 101–years–old!

Born before the First World War in 1911, Singh was hailed as the oldest marathon runner when he finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in about eight hours in 2011.

Singh finished his final race in one hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds.

The Guinness Book of Records would not officially grant him the title of "the oldest marathon runner in the world" because this requires a birth certificate, which Singh couldn't provide.