100-Year-Old Marathoner Won't Get Into Guinness

In which the Guinness Book of World Records pulls a Donald Trump and demands to see Fauja Singh's non-existent birth certificate.

Fauja Singh, the first 100-year-old man to complete a marathon, won't have his name entered into the Guinness Book of World Records because the elderly long-distance runner doesn't have the necessary documents to prove his age. Singh ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in a little more than eight hours two weekends ago. The British-Indian man, however, only has his birthdate listed as "1911" in his British passport. Guinness will only add his name to the record books if Singh can produce a birth certificate, but the Indian government in 1911, such as it was, didn't keep birth records of every child brought into the world. So instead of being the first 100-year-old man to run the 26 miles of a marathon, Singh is now just that really old guy in a turban who came in last, at least according to Guinness. To us, he's a freakin' legend, birth certificates be damned.