06 April 2015
Mieko Nagaoka has every reason to celebrate. Photo: AFP
More than a century old, but not a bit rusty: The Japanese Mieko Nagaoka provides a swimming record and finished the first hundred years of one race over 1500 meters freestyle.
Over a century old, but rusty not a bit: The Japanese Mieko Nagaoka has set a swimming record and the first 100-year-old a race in the 1500m freestyle finished. As the only participant in the category of the 100 to 104-year-old she needed for a short course competition in the western Japanese prefecture of Ehime 1:16 hours for the distance. By comparison, the long-course world record of American Katie Ledecky stands at 15: 28.36 minutes
“I want to swim until I’m 105 years old, if I live for so long. “Nagaoka told the news agency Kyodo News. Her passion for the sport of swimming Nagaoka had only discovered at the age of 80 years.
The people of Japan have one of the highest life expectancies in the world. According to the Japanese government 59,000 people in the Asian country were over 100 years old last September. (Sid)
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