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    100-year-old marathoner finishes race

    TORONTO (AP) — A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday.

    Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World 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," his coach and translator Harmander Singh said. "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 lifelong wish."

    Sunday's run was Singh's eighth marathon — he ran his first at age 89 — and wasn't the first time he set a record.

    In the 2003 Toronto event, he set the mark in the 90-plus category, finishing the race in 5 hours, 40 minutes and 1 second.

    And on Thursday in Toronto, Singh broke world records for runners older than 100 in eight different distances ranging from 100 meters to 5,000 meters.

    The 5-foot-8 Singh said he's hopeful his next project will be participating in the torch relay for the 2012 London Games. He carried the torch during the relay for the 2004 Athens Games.

     
    • it all about DNA  •  5 mths ago
      I hope he carries the torch My hero!! Love it
    • Tom  •  7 mths ago
      WOW
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      I give the guy a hell of a lot of credit. Nothing wrong with old age as long as you still have your mind and body. Keep it up.
      • Alter Ego 7 mths ago
        Keep It Up??!!!! ba-da BOOM!
      • YO 7 mths ago
        I like you Alter Ego - you're silly.
    • Andrew R  •  7 mths ago
      And people less than half his age drive around the Wal-Mart parking lot five times to get a spot close to the entrance.
      • Centa N 7 mths ago
        Andrew, how true!!!
      • John 7 mths ago
        Sometimes it takes even more then five times if you have to dodge all the shopping carts that people never return to the cart corrals..
      • E-man 7 mths ago
        Park far from the entrance, like I do. Better parking, fewer pedestrians and shopping carts, and the additional walking won't hurt. Plus, less wasted gas and less chance of a fender-bender...
    • hookedonharley  •  7 mths ago
      hope he has many years of running ahead of him.
      • Andy Wong 7 mths ago
        not many left, we'd be blessed to even reach 100. but he'll definitely have much more left than others his age, seeing as he takes care of himself
      • YO 7 mths ago
        He must enjoy it! What a great example.
      • U R 7 mths ago
        suck my big dong lil andy wong
    • Pedey  •  7 mths ago
      Congratulations sir. Well done.
    • Alice  •  7 mths ago
      Very, very cool article!
    • ImAlwaysRight  •  7 mths ago
      This is actually kind of inspiring to me. I don't want to become old and frail and not be able to do anything. This guy is basically saying that I never have to become frail and completely dependent, even if I reach 100.
      • orion1 7 mths ago
        as long as you are healthy.................
      • orion1 7 mths ago
        he's amazing.
      • Lakers-44 7 mths ago
        Amen. Your health is everything. People today seem to have forgotten that.
    • plasmadonor  •  7 mths ago
      WOW! Freaking amazing!!!
      • YO 7 mths ago
        WELL SAID!
    • j  •  7 mths ago
      super job!!!
    • First NameGail  •  7 mths ago
      It goes to prove that you are never TOO OLD!!!!!!!!
    • All gone  •  7 mths ago
      Well hell I could have beaten this guy, just kidding I probably would have had a heart attack two miles into it.
    • Mighty B  •  7 mths ago
      Whats so amazing is that he is still mobile at 100 much less to complete a marathon..Most
      on here will never reach 100 much less be mobile.Just take stock of your family and tell us how many of your ancestors have even lived to ninety.
    • Jerry  •  7 mths ago
      Jack Lalanne would be proud.
    • Elmore  •  7 mths ago
      Wow! what has he been eating all these years?
    • chris  •  7 mths ago
      Anyone who has ever attemted finishing a marathon knows this is big even for the youngest and the fitest....for a 100 year old man this is as incredible as it gets !
      and to think a woman less than a month ago gave birth to a child the same day after completing a marathon. What next?
    • Jeff  •  7 mths ago
      This dude is a BOSS.
    • Matthew  •  7 mths ago
      I like these stories. Good for him.
    • Stephen B  •  7 mths ago
      Freakin motivating
    • Kristin  •  7 mths ago
      WOW ! He makes me feel like an absolute lazy slob!
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