{"id":12083,"date":"2024-05-25T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2024-05-25T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T20:07:13","slug":"great-grandmother-105-breaks-world-record-for-fastest-100-meter-run-at-us-senior-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12083","title":{"rendered":"Great-grandmother, 105, breaks world record for fastest 100-meter run at US Senior Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Known as \u201cthe Hurricane\u201d, this\u00a0elderly<\/a>\u00a0107-year-old woman hasn\u2019t let age dictate her abilities!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, back in November 2021, at the age of 105, Julia Hawkins set a new world record for fastest 100-meter run at the Louisiana Senior Games, which is a competition for adults over 50.<\/p>\n

Now, aged 107, she seems to show no signs of slowing down!<\/p>\n

Hawkins told\u00a0WWNO<\/a>\u00a0that she hasn\u2019t always been running, and that it was actually one of her children who suggested when she turned 100 that she try doing the 100-yard dash in under 100 seconds. \u201cAnd I did it in a lot less than that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Five years later, at the 2021 Louisiana Senior Games, she wanted to run the dash in under a minute, though she ended up doing it in just over 62 seconds. \u201cI have done much better than that,\u201d she admitted. \u201cIt was windy and cold, cold. But on that day it seemed to be the best I could have done with the weather like it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

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