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"Fauja Singh, 100, finished Toronto's waterfront marathon Sunday evening, securing his place in Guinness World Records as the oldest person - and the first centenarian - to ever accomplish a run of that distance."

"Lack of aerobic fitness may impair how the heart copes with the stress of running a marathon, Larose and his colleagues said. "This is not a permanent injury that will leave any type of scar," said Larose, a professor of medicine at Laval University at Quebec City."

"Centenarian Fauja Singh secured the Guinness World Record Sunday by becoming the oldest person to ever run a marathon. The 100-year-old year old crossed the finish line in just over eight hours, a feat some 20-somethings would have a hard time pulling off. "

"The 26-mile (42km) race involved 423 laps of an indoor track at an average speed of 0.77 km/h."