{"id":5594,"date":"2011-10-18T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T12:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/mara-ton-joy-for-fauja-singh\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:21:13","slug":"mara-ton-joy-for-fauja-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/mara-ton-joy-for-fauja-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mara-Ton joy for Fauja Singh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Marathon running Ilford pensioner sets new world record<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/FaujaSinghToronto_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>BRITISH pensioner Fauja Singh, 100, has become the oldest person to complete a marathon \u2013 earning him another spot in the Guinness World Records!<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Singh, from Ilford, accomplished the fete at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, finishing the in eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Crossing the finishing line he was met by hundreds of supporters who cheered their new marathon world record holder. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>At 100, Mr Singh has now become the world\u2019s oldest marathon runner, adding his latest achievement to another marathon world record in the over-90\u2019s category after finishing the 2003 Toronto marathon. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marathon running Ilford pensioner sets new world record &#13; &#13; &#13; BRITISH pensioner Fauja Singh, 100, has become the oldest person to complete a marathon \u2013 earning him another spot in the Guinness World Records! &#13; Mr Singh, from Ilford, accomplished the fete at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, finishing the in eight hours, 25 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}