The one who will take you to discover the most interesting things in this world Did the previous athletes amaze you with their talents? They are all elderly, and amongst them, there is even a person more than 100 years of age. So who is that? Let’s come with me and discover about 8 oldest athletes in the world
Ernestine Shepherd
Miss Ernestine Shepherd, 84 years old, from America, currently holds the title “the oldest female body builder in the world” by the Guinness Book. She is the proof for the theory: “it’s never late to start working out and training your body” Ernestine Shepherd used to a professional model, but she has long changed her path into a personal body building trainer in Baltimore, America.
The story of her switching her path and pursues it for so long like this can be such an inspiration for our young generations who wanna achieve and maintain a perfect body like her
Lesley Maxwell
Lesley Maxwell, 65 years old, has turned into a grandma for so long but still owns an unbelievable beautiful face along with her stable and firm body that everybody all admires.
She is the 2nd oldest body builder proudly listed in this Lesley Maxwell actually just started to train her body since she was 48 years old. One year after that, she got her first title in this field.
And at the moment, this U70 grandma has got more than 30 titles for herself and currently works as a personal body building trainer as well as a nutritionist, who inspires everybody around her to work harder
Fauja Singh
This grandpa, Fauja Singh, born in April/1st/1911 in Punjab, India. In 2011, the Guinness Book officially gave him the title of world record as this 100+ years old man had completed the 42km long road when participating in a marathon race taken place in Canada.
42km is a distance that young people cannot possibly finish, but at this age, this man can still finish it amazingly like that, that is so shocking, isn’t it?
Paddy Jones
If not looking directly at her face, nobody would believe that this performance is made by an 80-year-old woman This old lady, Paddy Jones, 79 years old had made the audiences of the Britain’s Got Talent show incredibly surprised at her “energetic” dance movements.
Many of them are very professional, which requires lots of passion, yet, dangerousness along with an excellent collaboration skill with her partner from Spain, Nico Espinosa, 40 years old.
Miss Paddy Jones has been recorded in the Guinness Book as “the oldest salsa dancer in the world”. Moreover, she is even viewed as one of the most perfect candidates in Britain’s Got Talent when performing many spectacular skills
Betty Goedhart
Miss Betty Goedhart, currently living in California, America – 87 years old. She is known as the oldest trapeze artist in the world. As a matter of fact, she first took the trapeze class when she was 78 years old.
However, her flexible movements make people thought that she had practiced this sport a long time ago. At the moment, she’s looking forward to encourage people and prove that, getting old doesn’t stop you from playing sports, all you need is a motivation and a stable mind
Arthur Gilbert
This old man, Arthur Gilbert, from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. He was the torchbearer from the Olympic game taken place in Minehead, Somerset in 2011. Although his age is pretty old, but that doesn’t stop him from training his body hard.
To be more specific, his workout routine includes visiting the gym twice a week, cycling for 40km every Sunday and swim 50 rounds in the local swimming pool every early morning
He has participated in the pentathlon more than 41 times including: swimming, cycling and running And accordingly, his achievements are intense: 500m swimming, 20km cycling, and 5km running which were done in the following range of time respectively: 31 minutes for swimming, 1h 11m 8s for cycling and 20 seconds for running. What an admirable achievement !
Sawang Janpram
Mr Sawang Janpram, 98 years old, is one of the most impressive athletes who recorded a 15.3m javelin throw and ranked at the 1st place in the 100m sprint, that is unbelievable right? He said that: “ I have witnessed many people at my age sickening and staying in bed for so long, so that’s why I decided to work out and come here to meet those who have the same thoughts like me”
Andreas Cahling
Andreas Cahling, born in 1952 in Switzerland. He is the one having many impressive biceps that looks exactly like Master Roshi in the movie “7 dragon balls”. This man is currently immigrating in America to pursue his path.
Before that, in 1976, Andreas got a gold medal in the Judo Championships taken place in Switzerland. After that, he went to Japan for 1 year to develop his skills and talents. He has got many amazing achievements throughout his career.
Nonetheless, because of his amazing body which has helped him receives many invitations to appear on lots of famous magazines throughout 20 years. They are all great models that we should look up, right guys?
