India’s Mr Fauja Singh, the world’s oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident at age 114, his biographer said July 15.

Mr Singh, an India-born British national, nicknamed the “Turbaned Tornado”, died after being hit by a vehicle in Punjab state’s Jalandhar district on July 14.

“My Turbaned Tornado is no more,” Mr Singh’s biographer, Mr Khushwant Singh, wrote on X.

“He was struck by an unidentified vehicle… in his village, Bias, while crossing the road. Rest in peace, my dear Fauja.”

Mr Singh did not have a birth certificate, but his family said he was born on April 1, 1911.

He ran full 42km marathons till the age of 100.
His last race was a 10km event at the 2013 Hong Kong Marathon when he was 101, where he finished in one hour, 32 minutes, and 28 seconds.