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Fauja
Singh
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He
lived with his wife in his village in Jalandhar, and moved to London in 1992 to
live with his son after his wife’s death. The death of his son Kuldip and
earlier of his wife forced him to search for a worthwhile alternative in
life. And he says "At the time when people start retiring, I thought of
running at the age of 63...and today I won the marathon at 93 years of age.”
[Marathon
record: for age 90-plus, is 5 hours 40 minutes, at the age of 92, at the 2003
Toronto Waterfront Marathon.]
In
2011, he participated in the Toronto Waterfront Full Marathon successfully in
8 hours 11minutes. [Singh became the first 100 year old to finish a
marathon.]
In
this ripened age, he never stopped adding feather to his hat. The recent
one being carrying the 2012 Olympic torch.
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Diana
Nyad
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Nyad
was born in New York City on August 22, 1949. Her father died when she was
three and her mother soon remarried Aristotle Nyad, a Greek land developer,
who adopted her.
She
dreamed of swimming in the 1968 Summer Olympics, but in 1966 she spent
three months in bed with endocarditis, an infection of the heart, and when
she began swimming again she had lost her speed.
Over
two days in 1979, Nyad swam from Bimini to Florida, setting a distance record
for non-stop swimming without a wetsuit that still stands today.
On
August 18, 2012 (At the age of 63), she swam 163 km for about 60 hours to
achieve a magnificent feat of crossing the strait between Cuba and Florida,
that too without a protective shark cage.
This
feat was achieved in the fourth attempt and She has cited Michael Phelps's
2012 performance in the 2012 Summer Olympics as her inspiration for her
fourth attempt.
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