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Dr. (Wg. Cdr.) Ashis Roy born in 1932, served in the Indian Air Force for 21 years and after retirement settled in New Delhi in 1978 as a Practicing Physician Cardiologist. At the age of 50 years Dr. Roy took up jogging and running to maintain good health. He ran his 1st Marathon at the age of 52 years and at 80 years old now, he has completed 115 marathon races, which is a National record for men in India. His latest and 115th marathon was in Mumbai on 20nd January, 2013. His achievements in the field of most strenuous sports of running 42.2 Km. marathon, is the rarest example of extraordinary excellence in sports. His achievements are enumerated in the following paragraphs.

Roy’s 115th marathon races include 75 marathons in foreign countries like U.S.A (45 marathons), India (40 marathons), Canada (12 marathons), U.K. (2 marathons), and one each in Greece, Holland, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Macau, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Pakistan.

Roy has run 40 marathons in India.

Roy holds the Indian Record of marathon for 55+ age group in 3 hours 10 minutes made in August 1987 at Delhi and still unbroken.

Roy is the first Indian to have run a marathon race after attaining the age of 60 years as well as 70 years.

Roy is the first Indian who has run on following occasions two marathons on two consecutive Sundays:

 

 

In 1997
1. New York City marathon – 2 November 1997 (Age – 65 years).
2. Rhode Island Marathon – 9 November 1997 (Age – 65 years).

 

In 1998
1. Rotterdam Marathon – 19 April 1998 (Age – 66 years).
2. Wroclaw Marathon – 26 April 1998 (Age – 66 years).

 

In 1999

Roy is the only Asian to have run the following three Marathon Races in U.S.A. on three consecutive Sundays and stood first in all three races in his age group of 65 – 69 Years.

1. Toledo Marathon – 25th April 1999
2. Cleveland Marathon – 2nd May 1999 (age – 67 years).
3. Cincinnati Marathon – 9th May 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2003

1. Prague Marathon – 18 May 2003 (Age – 71 yrs).
2. Vienna Marathon – 25 May 2003 (Age- 71 years).

 

Roy has run 13 marathons in the year 2009 as given below at the age of 77 years.

1. Mumbai Marathon – 18 January, 2009
2. Gurgaon Marathon – 22 February, 2009
3. Potomac River Marathon [USA] – 3 May, 2009
4. Delaware Marathon [USA] – 18 May, 2009
5. Bob Potts Marathon [USA] – 31 May, 2009
6. Niagara Marathon [Canada] – 20 June, 2009
7. Friendly Massey Marathon [Canada] – 19 July, 2009
8. Self Transcendence Marathon [USA] – 25 August, 2009
9. Rochester Marathon [USA] – 13 September, 2009
10. Baltimore Marathon [USA] – 10 October, 2009
11. Marine Corps Marathon [USA] – 25 October, 2009
12. Harrisburg Marathon [USA] – 8 November, 2009
13. Gurgaon Marathon [India] – 6 December, 2009

Roy has also won medals in his age group in the following International Marathons :

1. International Veterans Marathon, Athens (1986) – 3rd Position
2. Asian Veteran Marathon, Kuala Lumpur (1990) – 1st Position
3. Toledo Marathon USA – (1999) 1st Position
4. Cleveland Marathon USA – (1999) 1st Position
5. Cincinnati Marathon USA – (1999) 1st Position
6. National Capital Marathon, Ottawa (2000) – 2nd Position
7. Pepsi Millennium Marathon, Burlington (2000) – 1st Position
8. Midnight Sun Marathon, Tromso (2002) – 2nd Position
9. Prague International Marathon (2003) – 1st Position
10. San Diego Marathon (2004) – 3rd Position
11. Lahore International Marathon, Pakistan (2005) – 1st Position
12. Charlottesville Marathon, USA – (2005) – 1st Position
13. Forest City Marathon, London, Ontario (2005) – 1st Position
14. Frederick Marathon USA – (2006) – 2nd Position
15. Calgary Marathon Canada – (2006) – 2nd Position
16. Nashville Marathon USA (2007) – 3rd Position
17. Foot Traffic Flat Marathon, Portland, USA – 2nd Position [ USA 2007]
18. Edmonton Marathon [Canada ] – 2nd Position [2007]
19. Grandmas Marathon [Duluth] USA – 3rd Position [2008]
20. Friendly Massey Marathon Ontario [Canada] – 3rd Position [2008]
21. Self Transcendence Marathon New York [USA] – 2nd Position [2008]
22. Mumbai Marathon [ India ] – 2nd Position [2009]
23. Potomac River Marathon – 2nd Position [2009]
24. Bob Potts Marathon [USA] – 1st Position [2009]
25. Niagara Marathon [Canada] – 1st Position [2009]
26. Friendly Massey Marathon [Canada] – 2nd Position [2009]
27. Self Transcendence Marathon [USA] – 2nd Position [2009]
28. Harrisburg Marathon [USA] – 1st Position [2009]
29. Chandigarh Marathon [India] – 1st Position[2010]
30. Potomac River marathon [USA] -1st Position [In age group of 70+] [2nd May 2010 ]
31. Bob Potts Marathon [USA] -1st Position [In age group of 70+] [16 May 2010]
32. Sun Burst Marathon [ USA] -1st position [In 75+ age group] [5 June 2010]
33. Self Transcendence Marathon [New York] – 2nd position [24th August 2010]
34. Yakima Canyon River Marathon [USA] – 3rd position [2nd April 2011]
35. Potomac River marathon – 2nd Position [1st May 2011]
36. Delaware Marathon — 2nd position [15th May 2011]
37. Grand Pierce Indoor Marathon [Arlington, USA] – 1st position [18th July 2011]
38. Self Transcendence Marathon [ New York] — 1st Position [In 70+ age group] [25th August]
39. Gurgaon Full Marathon [Gurgaon,Haryana] — 1st Position [2nd December 2012]
40. Mumbai Full Marathon [ Mumbai] — [20th January 2013]

 

Indian National record Half Marathon Held By Ashis Roy.

 

Dr.Ashis Roy ran RATH Half Marathon at Delhi in July 1987 and finished in 1Hr 22.47 min making a new National record for men 55 Plus.This record ramins unbrocken still the year 2015.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indian National Record Of Full Marathon Held By Ashis Roy.

 

In Aug 1987, Dr.Ashis Roy ran a full Marathon of 42.2 km distance in Delhi on 18th Aug 1987 for selection of world vetrans games to be held in Melbourne (Australia) .Dr.Roy ran this marathon alone in the heat of 38 celcious in bare bodied and ran on the road around Nehru Stadium 17 times .He finished the marathon in 3 Hrs 10 Mins making a National record of marathon for age group of 55 plus.This record ramins unbrocken still the year 2015.

unfortunatly there is no picture of the race was available since the race held.

 

112th Full Marathon - Indoor Marathon in USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will be happy to know that Ashis Roy have run his 112th marathon on 18th July2011. Successfully running in the 2nd edition of Grand Pierce Indoor marathon held at the Indoor Stadium of Thomas Jefferson Community center at Arlington located on the outskirt of Washington DC.

The indoor stadium has 200 meters synthetic track and runners had to run anticlockwise 211 rounds of the track with continuous left turn. This caused painful swelling of Ashis Roy’s right osteo-arthritic knee and he was forced to stop after 14km to apply ice and wear a knee-support to the right knee.

There were only 10 competitors including one woman and Ashis Roy was the only one above 70 years and finished in slow time of 6hrs 59 min in 9th position beating another runner of 40 years. The race director announced that Ashis was the first man above 70 years in the world to run the Indoor marathon.

 

Fighting back Spinal injury and surgery:
After running indoor marathon in July, 2011 in USA (112th), and then the Self Transcendence Marathon (113th) in August same year, developed acute pain in the back and after returning in September to Delhi back pain continued. Finally Dr. Roy developed paralysis of right leg. The diagnosis was spinal injury caused by dislocation of last two vertebrae.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

In November, 2011 Neuro-surgical operation was conducted by Neuro-surgeon at Max hospital, Delhi for four hours and 6 nails were fitted in the last two vertebrae. Dr. Roy struggled for following three months to move and finally fought back and started walking and then gradually started running again. He ran his first Half-marathon of 21.2 Km after six months of his operations in USA.
After returning in October, 2012, he ran his 114th Full-marathon at Gurgaon, Haryana in December, 2012.

 

Running picture of 114th marathon in Gurgaon, Haryana where he is seen struggling to run due to the injury and he seen bending towards the right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

115th Full-marathon in Mumbai in January, 2013.This became the Indian record of the Highest number of marathon ran by an Indian and have been published in Limca Book of Records as National record.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After 115th Full-marathon in Mumbai, Roy decided to stop running Full-marathons and switched to Half-marathons of 21.1 Km distance.

 

LIST OF HALF MARATHONS RUN BY DR.[WING COMMANDER] ASHIS ROY.

Date Of Birth – 1st June 1932. Place of Birth – Shillong.

 

NAME OF THE RACE. DATE AGE FINISH TIME.

 

1 Rath Half Marathon, Delhi -- 18 November1984 --52yrs.-- 2Hrs 10 min.
2 Rath HalfMarathon, Delhi --- 15 September 1987 ---55yrs. –1Hr.22:47 min. [Indian National Record 55 + age group.]
3 Run For Truth Delhi Half Marathon -- 1995 62yrs. – 1Hr 40 min.
4. Rath Half Marathon Delhi 16 February 1997 65yrs. ---1Hr 42 Min.
5. Delhi Half Marathon 16 October 2005 73 Yrs ---2 Hrs 10 min.
6. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 16 October 2006 74 Yrs --- 2Hrs 15 Min.
7. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon --------- 16 October 2007. 75 Yrs ----2Hrs 55 Min.
8.Airtel Delhi Half Marathon ---------- 9 November 2008 76 Yrs. 2Hrs 48 Min.
9. Gurgaon Half Marathon ----------- 7 December 2008 76 Yrs 2 Hrs 45 Min.
10. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon -------- 1 November 2009. 77Yrs. 2Hrs 57 Min.
11. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon ---------- 23November 2010 78 Yrs. 3 Hrs 01 Min.
12. Alexandria[USA] Half Marathon------- 25 May 2012. 79 Yrs 3Hrs 10 Min.
13. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon ------------20 December 2012. 80 Yrs 3Hrs 46 Min.
14.Alexandria[USA] Half Marathon ------26 May 2013 81yrs 3Hrs 43 Min.
15.SanFransico[USA] Half Marathon ---- 16 June 2013 81yrs 3Hrs 37 Min.
16.Whitby[Canada] Half Marathon ----11 August 2013 81Yrs 3Hrs 17 Min.
17.RockNRoll Philly Half Marathon ---- 15 September 2013 81 Yrs 3Hrs 24 Min.
18.Gurgaon Half Marathon ------ 24 November 2013 81 Yrs. 3Hrs 20 Min
19. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon ------- 15 December 2013 81 Yrs. 3Hrs 24 Min.
20. FormulaOne Track Half Marathon NOIDA—16 March 2014 81Yrs 3Hrs 29 Min.
21.Delaware Half Marathon[USA] 11 May 2014 81 Yrs. 3Hrs 48 Min.
22. Alexandria[USA} Half Marathon ----- 25 May2014 81Yrs 3Hrs 32Min.
23.Navy Air Force Half Marathon[USA] ----- 14September2014 82 Yrs. 3Hrs 28Min.
24.Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon[USA] –5 October 2014 82 Yrs 3Hrs40 Min 
25.Air Tel Delhi Half Marathon [India] – 23 November 2014 - 82 Yrs -- 3Hrs 30 min.
26. Gurgaon Half Marathon [India] -- 14 Th December 2014—82 Yrs – 3 Hrs 35 Min.
27.Potomac River Half Marathon – 3rd May 2015 - 82 years -- 3hrs 52 min 57 sec.
28. Alexandria Half Marathon- 24th May 2015 -82 years- 3hrs 47.51mins
29.RockNRoll Half Marathon Chicago- 19th July2015 – 83years – 3hrs 55:29sec.
30. Navy Air Force Half Marathon Washington[USA] on 20th September 2015 – 83 years—3hrs20:06 min..
31. Airtel Delhi Half Marathon [ India] on 29th November 2015 – 83 years --- 3hrs 38 min.

 


In the year 2013, he ran 5 Half-marathons in USA at Alexandria, San Francisco and Philadelphia rock n roll marathons where he ran with his daughter who was 41 yrs old and became the first father-daughter team of India to run the marathon. Roy stood 2nd in his age group of 80+ men category and a trophy was sent to him by post later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the year 2014, Dr. Roy ran seven Half-marathons with three in India and four in USA.
1. Noida Formula One car racing track
2. Delaware (USA)
3. Alexandria USA)
4. Navy Air Force Half-marathon Washington (USA)
5. Woodraw Wilson Bridge Half marathon Washington (USA) – Ran along with daughter as father-daughter team. Stood 1st in 80+ men category.
6. AirTel Delhi Half Marathon
7. Gurgaon, Haryana

Father daughter team at finished line in W.W bridge marathon, Washington USA on 5th Oct, 2014

 

 

 

 

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