
Buddhia Singh, six years old shot to fame when he completed an uninterrupted sixty five kilometer marathon from the Jagganath temple in Puri to the CRPF campus in Bhubaneshwar on 2nd May,2006 .
He has become the youngest marathon runner in the world and has managed to make it into the Limca Book of Records. His coach was Biranchi Das who has been arrested on charges of exploitation and torture of the child on August 2007.Buddhia has been embroiled in a controversy since he set a world record.