Summary World’s oldest marathon runner, Fauja Singh, will retire after Hong Kong Marathon.
A 101-year-old British Sikh who is considered to be the world’s oldest marathon runner is ready to hang up his sneakers.
The 10km race during the Hong Kong Marathon today (Sunday) will be Fauja Singh’s last event, he told said — but he intends to keep running at least four hours a day after that.
Singh, dubbed the “Turbaned Tornado,” was born in Punjab in 1911, but has lived in Britain since 1992. He came to marathon running relatively late, at the age of 89. A member of London’s ‘Sikhs in the City’ running club, he finished his fifth London Marathon last year in a time of seven hours and 49 minutes, and has competed in eight 26-mile races in London, Toronto and New York. Last year, he became the U.K.’s oldest Olympic torchbearer.
