The athlete – believed to be the oldest runner to complete a marathon – was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village on Monday, according to reports in India.
Veteran marathon runner Fauja Singh has died after being hit by a car in India. (Picture: Keshav Singh/Hidustan Times/Getty Images)
Singh, who lived in Ilford from 1992, made his name by beating a number of records for marathon times in multiple age brackets.
A profile on the Olympics website said Singh was born in Punjab, then under British rule, on April 1 1911 and was the youngest of four children in a farming family.
He moved to England and settled in east London with his son after the death of his wife.
This time knocked 58 minutes off the previous world’s best in the 90-plus age bracket.
Guinness World Records described it as an “inspirational achievement” but said it was unable to recognise the feat without the necessary proof of his date of birth.
He was a torchbearer for the London 2012 Olympics and retired at the age of 101.
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