{"id":72891,"date":"2025-07-15T20:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/15\/fauja-singh-worlds-oldest-marathon-runner-dies-road-accident-aged-114"},"modified":"2025-07-15T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:31:48","slug":"fauja-singh-worlds-oldest-marathon-runner-dies-in-road-accident-aged-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72891","title":{"rendered":"Fauja Singh, \u2018world\u2019s oldest marathon runner\u2019, dies in road accident aged 114"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singh\u2019s east London running club confirms death in India of athlete thought to be first centenarian to run a marathon<\/p>\n<p>The runner Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest person to complete a marathon, has died in a road accident in India aged 114.<\/p>\n<p>The athlete, who lived in Ilford in east London, was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village of Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, on Monday, according to reports in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/15\/fauja-singh-worlds-oldest-marathon-runner-dies-road-accident-aged-114\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singh\u2019s east London running club confirms death in India of athlete thought to be first centenarian to run a marathonThe runner Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest person to complete a marathon, has died in a road accident in India aged 114.The athl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,215,3363,2195,1222,3364,61,203,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-london","category-marathon","category-marathon-running","category-older-people","category-running","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72892,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/revisions\/72892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}