Fit to old age

Alain Mimoun: Ahead of His Time Prof. Michael Joyner, see https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/joyner-michael-jmd/bio-00078027, has the French runner Alain Mimoun portrated under http://www.drmichaeljoyner.com/alain-mimoun-ahead-of-his-time/. This runner of Algerian descent was 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon before the legendary Emil Zátopek, who came to a sixth goal. In his short film Prof. Joyner shows that Alain Mimoun was trained at 90 years.In mid-2013, he died at the age of 92 years.

This runner is once again a proof that hard training improves survival early in life.

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When Ultras gets older

Human body: The ‘ultra-athletes’ aged 60+ The journalist David Robson wrote an article to the older Ultras in BBC Future.He describes what man can stand up. His work is to be read under https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20141111-The-Ultra-athlets-Aged-60

Difference Short and Langbahn for Lagenschwimmer

The Effect of Course Length on Individual Medley Swimming Performance in National and International Athletes We have examined the effect of different web lengths in short and long lane races for 200 and 400 m pivot swimming and compared swimmers of national level (Switzerland) with international level swimmers (WM). On average, the floats were 4.3% faster on the short point than on the Langbahn.The gender difference of performance was greater than on the short-run than on the Langbahn for international floats, but showed no difference for national floats. The sexual difference is the achievement with increasing route length for both tracks at national floats, in international floats only on the Langbahn. The whole work can be found under https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25414752/

100-year-old swimmers

Incredible services by 100-year-old swimmers On the one hand, we are looking for the optimal age for top athletes, on the other hand, we also examine the trend of age group athletes.In swimming, there are the World Championships of the Master Age Groups up to 100 years and older. The Canadian Jaring Timmermann, who at the age of 104 in the age category 100-104 years earlier year, achieved two world records, see under https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jaring-timmerman-age-104-sets-2-world-swimming-records-1.2510764. But that was not enough.At the age of 105, he achieved a world record in the age category 105-109 years, see https://www.swimingworldmagazine.com/news/jaring-timmerman-becomes-first-105-year-old-masters-Swimmer-in-history/

Ed Whitlock

The phenomenon Ed Whitlock The Canadian Ed Whitlock was born in 1931 and will be 83 years old this year.That is basically not so special. But Ed Whitlock is the first person who has run at over 70 years another marathon under 3 hours, which was in 2003 at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon with 2:59:10, see https://www.runnersworld.com/advanced/a20801744/ed-whitlock/. 1 year ago, at the age of 82 he went the marathon in 3:41:58 and set a world record, see https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20808473/ed-whitlock-runs-3-41-marathon-at-age-82/. In the course of his life, he has so far run 11 age history in the marathon, with 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 80, 81, and 82 years, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25120915/.

The age of the top swimmer at World Cup and Olympics

Change of the age and performance of swimmers across World Championships and Olympic Games finals from 1992 to 2013 - a cross-sectional data analysis In 1988, Schulz and Curnov published a work to the age of top athletes.In doing so, they examined the Olympic champion from 1896 to 1980 in the freestyle swimming.Over every year, the age of the best women was 18 years and the best men at 21 years. Since newer numbers are missing, we have examined the age of the best swimmer at the World Cup (1994-2013) and Olympia (1992-2012).Due to current information is to be assumed that the top swimmers were a bit older over the last few years.

The change zone at Ironman Hawaii

Changes in transition times in ‘Ironman Hawaii’ between 1998 and 2013 A triathlon includes the times in the change zone between swimming and cycling as well as cycling and also run for the total time. We asked us the question of whether over the years the change times at the Ironman Hawaii also improved, especially since the final times over the years were getting better. To find a difference between the route length, as compared to the results of the Ironman Hawaii with the results of the World Cup Ironman 70.3.If you look at the fastest, the change time at the Ironman remained unchanged for the fastest women, but took to the fastest men.In the 10ast per year, the change period took the men as in the women.

A 90 marathon

Physiological alterations after a marathon in the first 90-year-old male finisher: case study In October 2013, the then 90-year-old Albert Stricker found the Lucerne Marathon.Since he has a valid birth certificate and has understood an official marathon, he may call himself the oldest finisher on a marathon. We have examined the physiological aspects of this exceptional performance as well as the action of a marathon on a 90-year-old person. All results can be found under https://springerplus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2193-1801-3-608

The age of the best ultramarathon performance

What is the age for the fastest ultra-marathon performance in time-limited races from 6 h to 10 days? If you look at the results of individual analyzes of running events of different lengths, it looks like when the top racers are getting older with increasing length of the run. We have analyzed the results of runs between 6 hours and 10 days from the period from 1975-2013.Over the years, the number of successful finishers increased steadily, with about half of the runners have completed an ultramarathon and the other half already two and more runs.Most finishers were in the fourth lifestyle. If all the runners were taken into account for all tracks at the start, the age of the best performance with increasing route length increased, even if only a successful finish or at least five successful finishes per athlete were taken into account.