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Monday, 16 January 2012 02:00

Ed. This story appeared on yahoo.news.com back in October. It's about a 100-year-old guy with a ZZ Top beard, a bitchin' yellow maharaja hat and a totally unpronounceable name who ran a marathon. How cool is that!

TORONTO (AP)

Family, friends and supporters greeted Singh when he finished the race.

"Beating his original prediction, he's overjoyed," his coach and translator Harmander Singh said. "Earlier, just before we came around the (final) corner, he said, 'Achieving this will be like getting married again.'

"He's absolutely overjoyed, he's achieved his lifelong wish."

Sunday's run was Singh's eighth marathon