He was run over at 114 the oldest marathon runner in the world, Fauja Singh

Indian would be 114 years old, although this was never recognized by Guinness. The “turban tornado” started running at 89. It was run over in June by a 26-year-old man who was following at high speed and was arrested on Tuesday.

The man considered the oldest marathon runner on the planet, the Indian Fauja Singhdied to 114 years In India, run over by a car, his biographer announced on Tuesday.

Nicknamed ‘Turban tornado‘The Indian was hit by a vehicle while crossing a street on his homeland on his homeland in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, in the northwest of the country, Khushwant Singh said in his social network account.

“My ‘turban tornado’ no longer exists, rest in peace, my dear Fauja,” said Khushwant Singh, who shared a video of Fauja on Wednesday

The Athletics and Charity Institution Club, ‘Sikhs in the City’, based in London, confirmed his death, adding that after the accident he was transported to the hospital where he died.

This Wednesday, the AMRITPAL SINGH DHILLON was on Wednesday was speeding when it ran over the elderly.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Singh, noting that it was “extraordinary for his unique personality and the way he inspired India’s young people on such an important theme: Fitness.”

Fauja Singh never managed to present a birth certificate, but his family says that Born on April 1, 1911when India was still part of the British Empire.

Gained notoriety to start running marathons at the age of 89inspired by television broadcasts, as a way to deal with the deaths of women and son. Known worldwide, the man with a thick beard and turban carried the Olympic flame in 2004 and 2012.

Fauja Singh ran a distance of 42,195 kilometers for the last time in 2013 in Hong Kong when she was 101 years old.

However, due to the lack of documentation that proved his age, Guinness World Records did not officially attribute him the title of older marathon runner in the world.

According to the reports, it extracted its energy and vitality through the regular consumption of ‘laddu‘, a sweet local, and curdled milk.