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Staying fit is a challenge at any age, but 103-year-old Mieko Nagaoka continues to swim laps well past her century mark. In fact, the Japanese world record swimmer is training twice a week with her son Hiroyuki Nagaoka at the Yanai Swimming school in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, for another major competition. Her body is not failing her, in fact, she is only getting stronger and quicker in preparation for when her speed in the water will be measured against the clock.
They say age is just a number, but Nanu Shaova's number is much higher than nearly every living person. At 127-years-old, this woman is officially recognized by Russian census authorities as the oldest living person in the Russian Federation, and, we have to say, she looks amazing for her age. However, Shaova's extraordinary numbers don't stop at her age - she has 10 children, 23 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and even already has 5 great-great-grandsons.
Video footage provided courtesy of UK-based skydiving company Skydive Buzz showed the moment that British D-Day veteran Bryson William Verdun Hayes jumped out of a Skydive Buzz aircraft and became world's oldest skydiver after participating in a charity tandem skydive from 15,000 feet, aged 101 years and 38 days, near Devon on Monday. Hayes, a former Royal Signals lance corporal who took part in the infamous Allied invasion of Normandy beach during the Second World War, completed the tandem skydive along with 10 family members at Skydive Buzz, raising money for the Royal British Legion. Hayes' son Bryan, grandson Roger, great-grandson Stanley and great-granddaughter Ellie were among those who leapt with him. With his jump, Hayes surpassed the record of Canadian Armand Gendreau, who skydived aged 101 and three days, in June 2013. This has been Hayes' second skydive since turning 100 years old, setting a British record with his previous attempt
Chinese grandmother Fu Suqing celebrated her 119th birthday on August 2 in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province of China. According to official documents, Fu Suqing was born in 1897, back when the emperor of the Qing Dynasty still ruled China. She's left behind quite a large legacy too - 68 people in her immediate family, including six children and a great-great-grandson, who was born just before her birthday.
Škoda has set two official world ice drift records with the Enyaq RS iV SUV, the brand’s second all-electric sporting model. The records for the ’Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice’ and the ‘Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice (electric car)’, have been verified by GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS. They were set by motoring journalist Richard Meaden on a circular track measuring 188.496 m in circumference on the frozen Stortjärnen lake near Östersund, Sweden, on Thursday 19 January 2023.The first record broken by Škoda on the Stortjärnen lake was for the Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice. Driving the recently launched Škoda Enyaq RS iV SUV, Richard Meaden set a new officially-verified record by holding the car in a controlled slide for more than 15 minutes and 7.351 km. Meaden’s drift beat the previous record of 6.231 km, set in China in 2022. In breaking the first record, Meaden and the Škoda Enyaq RS iV SUV set a second record for the ‘Longest Continuous Vehicle Drift on Ice (electric car)’.With a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS adjudicator present and international drifting judge David Kalas as a witness, Škoda set the record on the brand’s fourth day on location following numerous practice runs with different tyre combinations. A total of 18 hours of drifting were put in across the full five days in sub-zero temperatures to achieve the perfect drift.
Teenage pilot Zara Rutherford lands in Belgium after completing a record-breaking 52-country, five-continent flight around the world. The intrepid 19-year-old British-Belgian has become the youngest woman to circumnavigate the planet flying solo. IMAGES
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