Track and field athlete Fauja Singh
Fauja Singh
Living place: India
Birthday: 1-4-1911
Global rank: #40951
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Who is Track and field athlete Fauja Singh?
Renowned as both a centenarian and a champion runner, he claimed the UK and world records for his runs in the over-ninety category. Impressively, he completed the 2003 Waterfront Marathon Toronto in just over five and a half hours and ran the same year of the London Marathon in just six hours and two minutes.
He ran in his last race, the 2013 Hong Kong Marathon, when he was 101 years old, finishing in just under an hour and a half.
Renowned as both a centenarian and a champion runner, he claimed the UK and world records for his runs in the over-ninety category. Impressively, he completed the 2003 Waterfront Marathon Toronto in just over five and a half hours and ran the same year of the London Marathon in just six hours and two minutes.
He ran in his last race, the 2013 Hong Kong Marathon, when he was 101 years old, finishing in just under an hour and a half.
Born with weak lower limbs, he was unable to walk until just after his fifth birthday. He built up his strength and started running in his early adulthood years, but didn't become a competitive racer until he was in his eighties.
He and his three-year-old siblings were raised in Punjab, British India. Grieving over the deaths of his wife, son, and daughter (all over a two-year period in the early 1990s), he turned to running for solace.
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He and soccer star David Beckham both appeared in a 2004 Adidas ad campaign.
He and soccer star David Beckham both appeared in a 2004 Adidas ad campaign.
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When was Track and field athlete Fauja Singh born?
Fauja Singh was born in 1-4-1911, death year is , at the age of 113.
Where is Track and field athlete Fauja Singh's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Fauja Singh was born in India. Là Track and field athlete, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Fauja Singh's global rank is 40951 and whose rank is 64 in list of famous Track and field athlete.
Fauja Singh was born in 1-4-1911, death year is , at the age of 113.
Where is Track and field athlete Fauja Singh's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Fauja Singh was born in India. Là Track and field athlete, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Fauja Singh's global rank is 40951 and whose rank is 64 in list of famous Track and field athlete.
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Events in 1911 and 1-4
Events in the world in the birth year of Fauja Singh
- First use of aircraft as offensive weapon occurs in Turkish-Italian War. Italy defeats Turks and annexes Libya.
- Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution overthrows Manchu dynasty. Sun Yat-sen named president. Background: Chinese Dynasties.
- Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz, president since 1877, replaced by Francisco Madero.
- Roald Amundsen becomes first man to reach South Pole. Quiz: Explorers & Adventurers
- U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Incan city of Machu Picchu.
Birthday Fauja Singh (1-4) in history
- Day 1-4 year 1789: Mr Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Day 1-4 year 1933: The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
- Day 1-4 year 1945: American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
- Day 1-4 year 1960: The first U.S. weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral.
- Day 1-4 year 1970: President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
- Day 1-4 year 1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer.
- Day 1-4 year 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Day 1-4 year 2001: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic arrested on corruption charges.
- Day 1-4 year 2003: Pvt. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
- Day 1-4 year 2004: President Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill making it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
- Day 1-4 year 2009: Sweden becomes the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage. The other countries with the same rights are The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain.
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