Ram Singh Yadav (born 7 November 1984) is an Indian

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ...

runner. Ram represented

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, London. He achieved the B qualification standard (2:18:00) by clocking a time of 2:16:59 at the 2012

Mumbai Marathon The Mumbai Marathon (known as the Tata Mumbai Marathon for sponsorship reasons by Tata Group), is an annual international marathon held in Mumbai, India, on the third Sunday of January every year. It is the largest marathon in Asia as well as th ...

, which is also his best performance in this event. He is the second Indian athlete ever to be qualified for the marathon event of the Olympics. Before Yadav,

Shivnath Singh Shivnath Singh (July 11, 1946 – June 6, 2003) was one of the greatest long-distance runners that India has produced. Singh represented India twice in the Asian games and twice at the Summer Olympics (1976 and 1980). He was born in Majharia, Bu ...

was the Indian athlete who participated in the

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. Ram is a

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in the

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Personal life

Ram is from Babiyan village,

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. His father was a fruit-seller in

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. Ram married Urmila Yadav in 2001 and they have three children, Amit, Ankit and Alok. He is a havildar in the Indian Army and currently posted in

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’s Artillery Centre. He trains at Pune-based Army Sports Institute.

Olympic qualification

Ram missed the B qualification standard of 2:18:00 in 2008 during the 2009 Mumbai Marathon for Beijing Olympics' marathon event by few seconds, and thus did not qualify. He completed his race in 2:18:23 and finished 10th in the final standings. But president of the

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, mistakenly announced that Ram had qualified for the Olympics, which was later corrected by the organisers. For the 2012 Summer Olympics, Ram underwent training for 45 days at a high-altitude training centre in

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town of

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. 2012 Mumbai Marathon was the first event he took part in after his training, the same event where he failed to claim an Olympic berth four years ago. Ram took 2:16:59 to finish the race, well under the B qualification standard of 2:18:00. He finished 12th overall in the final standings. 2:16:59 is also the personal best of Ram. Ram is only the second Indian athlete ever to be qualified for the marathon event of the Olympics. Shivnath Singh of

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was the first Indian athlete to participate in the Olympics marathon. He participated twice in the Olympic Games—

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and

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Olympic Games

At the London

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, he completed the marathon with a time of 2:30:06 which placed him 78th in the final rankings. From a field of 105 starters, as many as 20 runners failed to finish the grueling marathon final, which was won by Uganda's

Stephen Kiprotich Stephen Kiprotich ("KIP-roh-tich", born 27 February 1989) is a Ugandan long-distance runner. He is an Olympic marathon champion, having won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Kiprotich also won a gold at the 2013 World Championships in ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yadav, Ram Singh 1980 births Living people Indian male marathon runners Indian Army personnel People from Varanasi district Athletes from Varanasi Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for India Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games athletes for India

Personal life

Olympic qualification

Olympic Games

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