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India’s Fauja Singh, believed to be the world’s oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident aged 114, his biographer said.
Singh, an Indian-born British national nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado", died after being hit by a vehicle in Punjab state’s Jalandhar district on 14 July. He became an international sensation after taking up distance running at the ripe old age of 89, after the death of his wife and one of his sons. Although widely regarded as the world’s oldest marathon runner, he was not certified by the Guinness World Records as he could not prove his age, saying that birth certificates did not exist when he was born under British colonial rule in 1911.
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