Records? are set and broken every day…people do amazing things every day. BUT it is not every day that a 100 year-old women wins a gold medal and sets a world record in the shot put (4.07 meter in 75+ age group)!
Ruth Frith was the oldest athlete to compete in the World Masters Games in Sidney. Ruth is a fire pistol.? She trains 5-days a week, refrains from smoking and drinking and vegetables. And here all this time we have had it hammered into our heads that in order to grow strong and old we need to eat our veggies…I’m gunna have to greatly reconsider my veggie intake.
In addition to being a star in the shot put? and great-grandmother, she also is noted for her hammer and javelin events.
Ruth states she has no intention to ‘retire.’ The games are every four years and she’s already planning a repeat!
