Friday, September 25, 2015

Oldest Competitive Sprinter: Hidekichi Miyazaki breaks Guinness World Records record (VIDEO)

KYOTO, Japan -- Hidekichi Miyazaki, 105, dubbed "Golden Bolt" after the fastest man on the planet, clocked 42.22 seconds in Kyoto to set a 100 metres world record in the over-105 age category, thus setting the new world record for the Oldest Competitive Sprinter, according to the World Record Academy .

  Photo: Hidekichi Miyazaki, 105, imitates the pose of Usain Bolt in Kyoto, western Japan. Photo: AFP
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  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the oldest ice hockey player; it is Johannes (Jan) Loos (Netherlands, b. 18 December 1929), who played as a member of the Huff 'N Puff Hockey League in London, Ontario, Canada, on 19 December 2014, aged 85 years 1 day.

    "I'm not happy with the time," the pint-sized Miyazaki told AFP in an interview after recovering his wind. "I started shedding tears during the race because I was going so slowly. Perhaps I'm getting old!"

    Indeed, so leisurely was his pace that Bolt could have run his world record of 9.58 four times, or practically completed a 400 metres race -- a fact not lost on Miyazaki.

   "I'm still a beginner, you know," he said, grinning from ear to ear. "I'll have to train harder. Training was going splendidly, so I had set myself a target of 35 seconds. I can still go faster."

    "The doctors gave me a medical examination a couple of days ago and I'm fit as a fiddle."

    Miyazaki, who was born in 1910 -- the year Japan annexed Korea and when the Titanic was still being built -- only took up running in his early 90s and prepares for races by taking a sneaky catnap.

    He stands just 1.53 metres (five feet) tall and weighs in at 42 kilograms (92 pounds). He trains religiously by popping a kilogram weight into a rucksack and going for daily walks around his local park in Kyoto, where he now lives.

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