According to the police, the suspect Amritpal Singh Dillon drove an SUV at high speed and hit the 114-year-old jogger. Singh was critically injured and died at a hospital where locals were taken away.
The incident took place on Monday in the northern state of Punjab, near the town of Jalandhar, not far from which the native village of Pin displacement. They cite police, the runner’s life could be saved if the 26-year-old driver takes Singh to hospital immediately.
First centenary marathon
Singh has set many records. In 2011 in Toronto, he became the first person over 100 years old to run a full marathon. He also carried the Olympic torch at the 2012 London Olympics.
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Despite his achievement of the year. He also has a welcome letter from the Queen on his 100th birthday (Britain, such letters from the monarch are accepted by all citizens of the country who come of age).
The Guinness record book stated that they would like to honour his year record. His coach explained that birth certificates were not issued in India at the time.
In his childhood, Singh was often teased in his village in Punjab from -because of his fee. He could not walk normally for five years.
“But the same boy they used to make fun of for his weakness ended up making history,” he told himself in an interview with Punjab Airways.
Singh never went to school or played sports as a child. He was a farmer and survived both the world wars and India’s Stormont division. “When I was young, I didn’t even know there was a word for ‘marathon,’ ” he said. Personal loss. His coach, and that’s how his running career began.
Singh rose to international fame after Adidas signed him in 2004 for an impossibly impossible ad campaign that also featured sports legends like Muhamm.