Browsing Tag: Fauja Singh

Sikh athletes who have excelled at the school, college, university, state, and national levels on Tuesday received the Sikh Sports Star awards.... and the hands of British centenarian marathon runner Fauja Singh, a world record holder.

[VIDEO] It's the closest you can come to immortality. "Running is what keeps me alive. Otherwise I would have been dead."

If someone who is 102 has the motivation and energy to exercise daily, what excuse do the rest of us have?

Fauja Singh ran his first marathon at age 89 and became an international sensation. Now 101 years old, he will run his final race on Sunday in Hong Kong -- and try to find peace with a Guinness World Records slight.

As per information Baba Fauja Singh, the world’s oldest marathon runner has run his last race at the age of 101.

101-year-old Fauja Singh, regarded as the world's oldest marathon runner, will quit after one final run at next month's Hong Kong race, media reports said.

Beard flowing undone.... Like a tornado spun Here Baba Ji comes!.... Run Fauja Singh run! Make way everyone!.... The marathon's done But the miracle lives on

Yes Khalsa Ji, we are born mortals, but in Sikhi the only way to pull our plug is to pull us away from Guru and Gurbani. Don’t let anyone do that to us.

World will witness Sikhism's wonderful tradition of Langar (free kitchen) on July 21 when Sikhs will distribute free 'Roti Rolls Langar' to public to commemorate the carrying of the Olympic Torch by 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.

Sikhs in the UK will serve langar along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay on July 21, informed United Sikhs Project Director Langar, 2012 Mejindarpal Kaur on Wednesday.

101-year-old Sikh-Briton Fauja Singh has been named one of the torch bearers for the 2012 Olympic torch relay.

How do I do it? Simple: firstly, I eat only vegetarian foods – I am told that vegetarians tend to live an average of six to 10 years longer than meat-eaters do. But I also walk or jog every day. Age may bring wisdom, but if you want stamina, endurance and a lifetime of good health, turn to nutritious vegetarian foods.

There is no orator, no wordsmith, no one with any degree of facility with language or image or profile, who has won over the media skeptics as freely as he has.

Two of Orange County’s centers of higher learning were on a “tornado” watch as centenarian marathoner Fauja Singh stormed through the campuses of California State University, Fullerton, Nov. 17 and Chapman University Nov. 18-20 to meet with students and his fellow Sikhs.

Former sports minister Manohar Singh Gill has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, making a recommendation for conferring the Padma Award on 100-year-old Sardar Fauja Singh who stunned the world by completing the Tokyo marathon a fortnight ago.

Guinness World Records says it has not ratified the record as Mr Singh cannot show a birth certificate from 1911. His trainer, Harmander Singh, says such documents were not made in India then.

At the age of 100, Singh also attempted and accomplished eight world age group records in one day at the special Ontario Masters Association Fauja Singh Invitational Meet, held at Birchmount Stadium in Toronto, Ontario Canada.

“I am but a simple man,” Fauja Singh the competitor, a Sikh with a long white beard who only speaks Punjabi, said in a translated statement. “I give it my best shot and it happens that the results are better than others.”

At 100 years of age, Fauja Singh is the world’s oldest marathoner. Since he turned 89, he’s completed seven marathons. He has signed up for the 2012 Edinburgh Marathon. So what are his secrets?

Fauja Singh either walks or sleeps. He doesn’t sit. The 100-year-old oldest marathon runner from Jalandhar, believes he’ll die if he sits...It is this zest for life, and indomitable spirit that Chandigarh-based author, Khushwant Singh, strives to capture in his recently released biography, 'Turbaned Tornado'.

How many 100-year-olds do you know, running marathons for charity to help premature babies? It is a case of the oldest for the youngest. And a brain behind an idea like that would have to be really bindaas.

On another continent, a world famous Sikh marathoner smashed a century of a different kind today. London-based marathon runner Fauja Singh, who set several records in his 90 years plus age group in the world before he officially 'retired' from marathon running when he was 94, becomes 100-years-old today.

World's oldest marathon runner and a brand ambassador of sports brand Adidas, Fauja Singh who will turn 100 on April 1 today launched a campaign against drug addiction in Punjab by organising a marathon..

A thin frame weighing 52 kgs, nearly 6 ft in height, with a flowing silver beard,...watching a sprightly Fauja on the track is a bewitching sight-incredulous and inspiring.

Fauja Singh, Britain’s most popular Sikh is 98 now, the oldest runner in London Marathon.

Fauja Singh is something of a celebrity at the east London Gurudwara which he visits daily.

Not long ago in Amritsar, there was a group of people called the 'Nirankaaris'. They did great insults to the Guru like putting a man above the Guru that they said is the living Guru. Some Khalsa marched in protest to them carrying this man in a Palki at Baisakhi. The Nirankaaris shot at these men and many of them died. They died fearlessly and they never forgot the Guru.

Well known marathon runner, Fauja Singh, was refused entry on the London Eye, the large observation wheel that overlooks the city.