Meet 105 year old man who's 32 seconds slower than Usain Bolt

 

Hidekichi Miyazaki, 105, did the 100m in 42.22 seconds – 32.64 seconds slower than Usain Bolt‘s record but still much quicker than anyone else his age

At 105 you think you’d putt your feet up - but not Hidekichi Miyazaki.

Instead the veteran athlete took part in the shot and collected a Guinness World Record in the 100 metres sprint in an over-80s athletics meet.

Hidekichi clocked 42.22 seconds – 32.64 seconds slower than Usain Bolt‘s world record, but quicker than any other 105-year-old.

Hidekichi ran with other competitors during a 100-metre ‘dash’ in the Kyoto Masters Autumn Competition in Kyoto, western Japan, today - a day after his 105th birthday.

So he's the fastest man on the planet over 105 - years, that is, not metres.

It came three days after the comparatively youthful American Don Pellmann - five years younger than his Japanese rival - snatched Hidekichi’s 100-and-older 100m world record, smashing through the tape in 26.99 seconds.

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Don, from Wisconsin, also became the first to clear an official height in the high jump, and set new records for men in the shot putt, discus, and long jump.

He failed in his three attempts to be the oldest man ever to record a height in the pole vault, however, saying afterwards he 'needed more practice'.