He achieved the B qualification standard (2:18:00) by clocking a time of 2:16:59 at the 2012 Mumbai Marathon, which is also his best performance in this event.

Before Yadav, Shivnath Singh was the Indian athlete who participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

[7] Ram is only the second Indian athlete ever to be qualified for the marathon event of the Olympics.

Shivnath Singh of Bihar was the first Indian athlete to participate in the Olympics marathon.

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 in a time of 2:08:01.