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91-yr-old, who started competing at 60, holds 6 athletics records

short by Ishaan Mukherjee / on Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
US athlete Florence Meiler, 91, holds six World Masters Athletics records and continues to compete. She took up track and field at 60 after a friend encouraged her to try the long jump at the Vermont Senior Games. Meiler holds records in the 2,000-metre steeplechase, 80-metre hurdles, pole vault, high jump, triple jump and pentathlon in the 90-94 age group.
read more at Hindustan Times