Fresno (California): Apna Punjab Media: The two-day 47th marathon concluded last Sunday in San Francisco. In which about 45000 runners from all over the world took part. 9 Punjabis also participated in this race and represented the Punjabi community. One of them was 82-year-old Pujya Bapu Ji Sardar Joginder Singh Sahi, who won first place in the 5K race, beating all the tall youths of his age. It is a very proud and instructive thing for us that at this age sometimes one longs to walk and Bapu ji is running a marathon.
Fresno resident Kamaljit Singh Banipal completed the 5 km race in 55-60 age group in 26 minutes. Similarly, Kulwant Singh Gill, Rajinder Singh Tanda, Manpreet Singh etc also participated in the 5K race. Apart from them, Rajinder Singh Sekhon, Narinder Kaur Sekhon, Darshan Singh, Kamaljit Ghumman etc. made the name of the Punjabi community shine by participating in the 13 km race.
It is also worth noting here that when Baba Joginder Singh Sahi’s granddaughter Gursimran Kaur and grandson Harjinder Singh learned that our Baba was going to San Francisco for the race, they sent a special limousine from Fresno, carrying ten athletes for the marathon. to participate All these athletes were sponsored by Tha CS Limousine Service.
The two-day 47th marathon ended at San Francisco, Punjabis participated with enthusiasm.

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