"Ninety-year-old Emma Maria Mazzenga has set a new world record in the 200m indoor for the W90 category, running the distance in 54.47 sec at the European Master Championships in Italy. The previous record, set 13 years ago, was 1 min, 0.72 sec."
"Ninety-year-old Emma Maria Mazzenga has set a new world record in the 200m indoor for the W90 category, running the distance in 54.47 sec at the European Master Championships in Italy. The previous record, set 13 years ago, was 1 min, 0.72 sec."
She shattered the previous record. This is the kind of record breaking which is likely to trigger skepticism, as some will wonder is it the shoes, PEDs, or the fact that almost no 90 year old women can even contemplate trying to run 200m fast.
"Ninety-year-old Emma Maria Mazzenga has set a new world record in the 200m indoor for the W90 category, running the distance in 54.47 sec at the European Master Championships in Italy. The previous record, set 13 years ago, was 1 min, 0.72 sec."
"Ninety-year-old Emma Maria Mazzenga has set a new world record in the 200m indoor for the W90 category, running the distance in 54.47 sec at the European Master Championships in Italy. The previous record, set 13 years ago, was 1 min, 0.72 sec."
Impressive that she’s running roughly 7:20 pace with a form that looks more like sprint walking.
"Ninety-year-old Emma Maria Mazzenga has set a new world record in the 200m indoor for the W90 category, running the distance in 54.47 sec at the European Master Championships in Italy. The previous record, set 13 years ago, was 1 min, 0.72 sec."
"'I attribute my success to a steady diet of pork offal burritos from food trucks' Maria stated. 'Nike also keeps sending me these protype shoes, disguised as mass-market racers. Not sure if the benefit is all in my head, though.'"
She shattered the previous record. This is the kind of record breaking which is likely to trigger skepticism, as some will wonder is it the shoes, PEDs, or the fact that almost no 90 year old women can even contemplate trying to run 200m fast.
Considering her vertical oscillation was practically nonexistent, it's probably safe to say it's not the shoes.
Impressive that she’s running roughly 7:20 pace with a form that looks more like sprint walking.
Definitely interesting form, but covering the distance at 90 is impressive. Her finish made me think of me trying not to cr*p in my pants as I finish a run.
Jokes aside, the quality of life she has at 90 with this mobility compared to just about anyone else on the planet is phenomenal. Everyone else that age doesn't even realize if they've crapped themselves, much less gotten all their food in their mouth.
Last week at the local gym, I met an 89-year-old woman who still competes in masters competition, but only in the 100m and hurdles. When I asked if she had world records, she just said, "Some." She said that she had been a track and field coach at Occidental College for about twenty years, beginning in 1980. She grew up in Germany, and was at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and saw Frank Shorter win the marathon there. (She said when she saw me on the treadmill, she thought I might be Shorter, but I said that Frank's eleven years older than I am. Also, I look much more like Bill Rodgers.) She's not sure whether she'll be running at this year's world masters championships, which (as I understood her) depends largely on whether she'll still be alive at the time. I know that if I were that age, I wouldn't want to go up against anyone, male or female, who can run 54.47 at the age of 90.
Jokes aside, the quality of life she has at 90 with this mobility compared to just about anyone else on the planet is phenomenal. Everyone else that age doesn't even realize if they've crapped themselves, much less gotten all their food in their mouth.
Best part in the video is that 4 months prior she suffered a sacral fracture. My grandmother almost died at 90 when she broke her hip and has been on her deathbed since. To bounce back from that and then run a WR 54" 200m is staggering. But hey, Italians have that blue zone gene! 90 for Italian Women is like 60 for Americans.
This is a list of world records for Masters age groups in the sport of road running. The world governing body for masters athletics is World Masters Athletics (WMA). WMA conducts various world championships in what are called...
Jokes aside, the quality of life she has at 90 with this mobility compared to just about anyone else on the planet is phenomenal. Everyone else that age doesn't even realize if they've crapped themselves, much less gotten all their food in their mouth.
Best part in the video is that 4 months prior she suffered a sacral fracture. My grandmother almost died at 90 when she broke her hip and has been on her deathbed since. To bounce back from that and then run a WR 54" 200m is staggering. But hey, Italians have that blue zone gene! 90 for Italian Women is like 60 for Americans.
I hadn't really thought about it, but you've got a point. At that age, it's not so much the fracture itself that's the big problem; rather, it's that the fracture typically signals much more widespread deterioration of the musculoskeletal system, and that the fracture typically leaves the patient bedridden and immobile for a long period, making it a challenge to receive even the fairly minimal stimulus needed to sustain life during any lengthy healing process. I know that I was shocked when I first heard statistics about the one-year mortality rate following hip fractures.
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