{"id":762,"date":"2017-07-23T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/2017\/07\/23\/incredible-senior-athletes\/"},"modified":"2017-07-23T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T05:03:00","slug":"incredible-senior-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Senior Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"julia hurricane hawkins\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/FamousDeaths\/hawkins2.jpg\" style=\"width: 165px; height: 175px; float: left;\" \/>My report on <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/heart\/exercisers-have-more-stable-plaques.html\">Exercisers Have More Stable Plaques<\/a>, showing that vigorous exercise in later life helps to prevent heart attacks by stabilizing plaques, should be a strong stimulus for people to continue exercising at any age.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\tThis week at the USA Track and Field Championships for men and women over 30, 101-year-old Julia &ldquo;Hurricane&rdquo; Hawkins won her age-group 100 meters race in 40.12. &nbsp;She holds the World Record for 100-year-olds in the 100 meters at 39.62, an age-group world record by six seconds. &nbsp;The women&rsquo;s 1500 meter race also had some very fast age group records. &nbsp;Here are the women&#39;s 1500 meter winners with their equivalent mile times:<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&bull; 46-year-old Sonja Friend-Uhl: 5:00.31 mile<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&bull; 52-year-old Judy Stobbe: 5:31.24 mile&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&bull; 68-year-old Sabra Harvey: 5:59.98 mile<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&bull; 80-year-old Jeanne Dapranoran: 8:44.93 mile.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GGlnHF8xHWA?ecver=2\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t<strong>World Record 105-year-old Bicycle Racer<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\tIn my opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/histories-and-mysteries\/robert-marchand-sets-amazing-world-record-at-105.html\">Robert Marchand<\/a> is the most amazing senior athlete of all time and marathon runner Ed Whitlock is a close second. &nbsp;At age 105, on January 4, 2017, Marchand rode his bicycle an incredible age-group-world-record of 14.01 miles in one hour, to a standing ovation of &quot;Robert, Robert,&quot; while dozens of TV cameramen captured the moment. &nbsp; &nbsp;When he was 102, he rode 16.73 miles in one hour to set the world record for men over 100. &nbsp; No one over 100 had ever recorded riding that distance before him, and the record still stands. &nbsp;Most 20-year-olds cannot average anywhere near his 16.7 miles per hour for one hour. &nbsp;A scientific review of world records in many different sports by people over 100 calls Marchand&#39;s one-hour-track-cycling the &quot;best sports performance ever achieved by a centenarian&quot; (Age Ageing, Nov 3, 2016;45(5):729-733). &nbsp;It is 50.6 percent of the current world record for that event for any age: 33.88 miles, set by 35-year-old Bradley Wiggins in 2015.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t<strong>World Record Senior Marathon Runner<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\tCanadian Ed Whitlock was the first person over 70 (at age 73) to run a marathon in less than three hours (2:54:48). A review of world records for running shows that his time adjusted for age is equivalent to running a marathon in a person&#39;s prime in 2:04:48, less than two minutes off the present world record of 2:02:57. As a schoolboy in London in the 1940s, Whitlock ran a mile in 4:34 and then stopped running. He took up running again in his 40s. At age 48, he ran his fastest marathon, in 2:31. On October 17, 2016, at age 85, he ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours 56 minutes 34 seconds to become the oldest person ever to run 26.2 miles in under four hours. &nbsp;Whitlock died of prostate cancer at age 86, on March 17, 2017.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t<strong>My Recommendations<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&bull; Vigorous exercise in later life helps to prolong lives and prevent diseases. Specifically it stabilizes plaques in arteries to help prevent heart attacks. &nbsp;See &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/fitness\/even-a-100yearold-can-improve-with-training.html\">Even a 100-Year-Old Can Improve with Training<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n\t&bull; <em><strong>Caution: <\/strong>If you have plaques blocking your arteries, vigorous exercise can cause a heart attack. &nbsp;Before you start an exercise program or plan to increase the intensity of your existing program, check with your doctor.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at the USA Track and Field Championships for men and women over 30, 101-year-old Julia \u201cHurricane\u201d Hawkins won her age-group 100 meters race in 40.12.  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