The death of Fuja Singh, the world’s oldest marathon, in 114 after it hit a car

Fuja Singh, an Indian generator and believed to be the oldest marathon hostility in the world, died after a car. It was 114.

Local media in India reported that Singh was severely injured in the head in an accident and illness on Monday while crossing the road in his original village near Gallazar in Punjab. He was taken to the hospital, where he died later.

London -based Al -Juna Club, Sikhs in the city, confirmed his death.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Singh, saying that he was “unusual because of his unique personality and the way that India’s youth inspired in a very important topic of fitness.”

“He was an exceptional athlete with an incredible design,” Modi said. “He has been painful before his death. My thoughts with his family and countless fans around the world.”

Singh became the oldest man running the full marathon race in 2011, at the age of 100, in Toronto. It was not recognized by the Guinness World Encyclopedia, because he had no birth certificate to prove his life. Singh had a British passport that showed his birth date on April 1, 1911, while a message from Indian government officials stated that birth records were not kept in 1911.

The great sadness turned into running

Singh, a flame holder of the London 2012 Olympics, was running at the age of 89 as a means of overcoming depression after the death of his wife and son in a quick succession in India.

The death of his son in 1994 affected him very difficult because of his horrific nature. Singh and his son Koldip, both of them farmers, were examining their fields in the middle of the storm when it killed a piece of corrugated metal of the wind.

Singh, whose other five children migrated, left alone.

“He did not think that his life deserves to live without his son” after the painful accident.

Fuja Singh went to live with his younger son in London and met some of the contestants in the Sikh Marathon who encouraged him to run long.

At the age of 89 in 2000, the London Marathon ran his first and continued to do eight others. His best time was five hours and 40 minutes in the 2003 Toronto Marathon.

“From a tragedy, a lot of success and happiness,” Singh said.

Singh managed his last competitive race in 2013 at the age of 101, where he finished the 10 -km long -one Marathon Marathon race in one hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds.

After retiring from the race, Singh said he hoped to “remember me.” He also wanted people to continue his call for events, “Instead of fully forgetting me just because I no longer run.”