Over the weekend, 101 year old Fauja Singh, from Ilford, east London, who is 101 years old, finished the Hong Kong 10 km in a time of 1:32:28. This was his last race in a career which only started when he was 89!Back in 2000, he ran his first Marathon in London. Since then he has run another eight Marathons with his best time of 5:40 being set in Toronto in 2003.
In 2011, he shot to fame when he became the oldest Marathon runner ever at the age of 100.
Fauja Singh was originally a farmer from the Punjab in India and moved to Britain in the 1960s, and started running when he was 89 after he lost his wife and his fifth son. "From a tragedy has come a lot of success and happiness," Mr Singh said, before the race.
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