Fauja Singh is generally regarded as the world’s oldest marathon runner.

It’s pretty much a big deal if you’re recognized as being the oldest anything.  Hell, it’s good enough to be recognized for simply being old, which is kind of a big achievement in its own right.

But Fauja Singh was noted for marathon running, and at 114 years of age, I’m feeling that his hold on this title will be a relatively secure one, at least for awhile.  Mind you, he wasn’t pounding out marathons well into his twelfth decade, although he was still “running” until very recently.

He was credited with being the oldest person to run a marathon in Toronto back in 2011 when he completed the Toronto Marathon at age 100.  But Singh has no birth certificate, since he was kinda born before those sort of things made it into the public record-keeping of his native country, India.  As there was no record of his birth, there was no way to definitively peg his age, so his achievement is not recognized in some quarters as a result, including the Guinness World Book of Records.  Regardless, we know for sure he ran the marathon, and we know for sure that he’s old, in fact mighty old.  But because we can’t put a finger on exactly how old, then we’re not going to give him credit for being the oldest anything.

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