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PostPosted: Thu 14:16, 22 Aug 2013    Post subject: torpedo Fauja Singh retires from marathon running

torpedo Fauja Singh retires from marathon running at 101,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Fauja Singh finished the Hong Kong marathon's 10-kilometre race in a time of 1 hour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 32 minutes and 28 seconds.
Mr Singh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a Sikh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wore a saffron turban and sported a flowing white beard. As he followed the route along the northern lip of Hong Kong island,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was accompanied by a group from the city's local Sikh community, joining about 72,000 other runners taking part in the marathon.
The Indian-born runner,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nicknamed the Turbaned Torpedo, had said that he would hang up his sneakers after the race in the southern Chinese city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], just before his 102nd birthday.
"I will remember this day. I will miss it," Mr Singh said minutes after crossing the finish line.
Mr Singh, a great-grandfather, became the oldest man to run a full marathon at Toronto in 2011, at the age of 100. But his record was not recognised by Guinness World Records because he doesn't have a birth certificate to prove his age. Mr Singh has a British passport that shows his date of birth as April 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 1911, while a letter from Indian government officials states that birth records were not kept in 1911.
"I am feeling a bit of happiness and a bit of sadness mixed together. I am happy that I am retiring at the top of the game but I am sad that the time has come for me to not be part of it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Mr Singh said in a pre-race interview. "And there will always be times in the future where I will be thinking, 'Well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I used to do that (running)," the Punjabi-speaking Mr Singh said through his coach and interpreter, Harmander Singh.
Mr Singh took up running as a way to get over depression after his wife and son died in quick succession in India. The death in 1994 of his son took a particularly hard toll on Mr Singh because of its grisly nature. Mr Singh and his son, Kuldip,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], both farmers, were checking on their fields in the middle of a storm when a piece of corrugated metal blown by the wind decapitated Kuldip in front of his father's eyes.
Mr Singh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose five other children had emigrated, was left all alone. "He didn't think his life was worth living without his son" following the traumatic incident,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], coach Harmander Singh said. He went to live with his youngest son in London. That's where the sports enthusiast attended tournaments organized by the Sikh community and he took part in sprints. He met some Sikh marathon runners who encouraged him to take up long-distance running. One day he saw a marathon on television for the first time and decided that's what he wanted to do too.
In 2000, at the age of 89,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he ran the London marathon, his first,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and went on to do eight more. His best time was 5 hours and 40 minutes at the 2003 Toronto marathon.
"From a tragedy has come a lot of success and happiness," Mr Singh said before the race as he explained how running has changed his life, allowing an illiterate farmer to travel the world, meet dignitaries and stay in five-star hotels.
Following his retirement from racing, he said he hoped "people will remember me and not forget me." He also wanted people to continue to invite him to events "rather than forget me altogether just because I don't run anymore."相关的主题文章:


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