News Eight-year-old Madhya Pradesh boy finishes 11-km marathon in 59 minutes

[IndianMascot]

Shashank Batham of Colonel’s Academy, Mhow, stunned the audience and fellow runners as India’s youngest marathon runner at the “Run Bhopal Run” Marathon. The eight-year-old boy completed the 11-km run in 59 minutes.

Although, the minimum age of participation in the marathon is 18 years, Shashank, a Class 3 student, was given a special permission by concerned authorities to run at the marathon held on December 6, 2015 at Bhopal.

Shashank has always been encouraged by his parents and school to exploit his talent of running on tracks.

 

[Technoglitch]

Kudos to the boy

 

[IndianMascot]

He is so confident in the pic too.

 

[scorpionking76]

Permission should not have given for the boy to run 11km at thus short age.

 

[IndianMascot]

Permission shouldn't dampen the talent

 

[scorpionking76]

Agree, but see the kids age, you should take that also into consideration.

I guess you remember in HP I guess there was a 5 year old boy ran a full marathon along with his dad and after it was in the news his dad was booked by authorities.

 

[IndianMascot]

Yup. We never know he is doing all this by his own or forcefully