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94-Year-Old Broke 5 Records in 94 Minutes
The Daily Guardian
|July 23, 2025
As part of their contribution to the Back the Bid campaign, the Sikh Community hosted a record-breaking event at Mile End Park Stadium, East London, on July 2. Star performer was the indefatigable 94-year-old Fauja Singh.
His aim was to run 100m, 200m, 400m, the mile and 1500m, and a 3000m continuing on to finish the 5000m. Six races covering eight distances in a time limit of 94 minutes.
Impossible? - nothing is impossible for the ex-farmer from the Punjab! Together with his enthusiastic coach, Harmander Singh, who himself had just missed out on the qualifying time for 10000m at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and a group of training partners, Fauja clocked 19.97 (hand-timed) for the 100m, missing the UK record by 7/100th of a second. In the 200m he obliterated the UK M90 age group 200m, clocking an amazing 45.13sec. The 400m he covered in 1:49.28sec, to become the first in Britain ever to contest this distance.
This story is from the July 23, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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