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Munnalal Batanilal Yadav(Octogenarian Runner)
Name- Munnalal Batanilal Yadav

Age- 81 Years

Born- 1 March 1943

Birthplace- Gondia, Maharashtra, India

Family- Wife(75 years) & 1 Daughter (Married)

Height- 5’5”

Weight- 45 Kg

Sport- Marathon running, Long Jump, Cycling

Youtube links- 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSVtbLLPYxc	           2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h19BDtYAL6Y 3)https://www.nagpurtoday.in/video-gondia-history-of-munnalal-yadav-winning-4-gold-medals-in-shabaash-milkha-dubai-marathon/11011701

Biography
Munnalal Yadav belongs to Gondia district in Maharashtra, India. He born (1 March 1943) and brought up in Gondia. Munnalal’s father Batanilal was wrestler in his time. As Munnalalji told about his father that his father was so passionate about wrestling and health freak activities. Munnalalji were grown up by seeing his father’s passion and at the age of 13 years Munnalalji runs its first marathon and made a record day by day until now at the age of 81 years he continue his passion.

Munnalalji also told about his fitness Mantra that he practices daily 1 hour with full dedications and without break. It helps him to built up stamina for long marathon. For 100 meter sprint practice he pushes bicycle forcefully and catch that bicycle before fallen down. He is self made man. He does not have any coach, he practices himself developed his skills by his own.

Munnalalji have a wife and a daughter(Married) in his family. He lived in his ancestral house with his wife. He survive for his living now because in this wild world his passion didn’t help to get bread to him and his family. Now a days he sell milk door to door and get small income to survive which only fulfill his basic needs.

Achivements
•	Master Marathon-2023 at Deharadun- 3 Gold medal(100 meter, 200 meter & 5 kilometer).

•	Selected 6 times for International Marathon running (Thailand, Bangkok, Shri-lanka, Dubai, Malaysia- 2 times).

•	Win 7 national games.

•	100+ Medals get achieved.

•	At the age of 62 he ran 42km marathon race at Thane(Mumbai).