Sunshine Coast Cotton Tree Masters Swimming Club patriarch China Johnson has a simple strategy to beating the opposition.
“I just outlive them,” he laughs, and which on face value seems a reasonable strategy for a 95-year-old turning 96 next month.
They are four nonagenarians who have just set a Pan Pacific Masters Games 50m freestyle relay record (5:18:54), their combined ages are 365 years and they have vowed to be back in 2020 to defend the gold medals they snared in the 360-399 division under blazing sunshine at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre on Saturday.
Toowoomba’s Ann Todd, 90, the oldest member of the Tadpoles swimming squad, won two gold medals with new personal best times at the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games (JPPMG) at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.
The 2016 Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games welcomed both the youngest and the oldest competitor on the opening day of the swimming competition at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in Southport.
Ryde Club Swimmer Jenny Whiteley is aiming to break another Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games record this week in the mixed relay event. As Whiteley is the first swimmer in the relay, she has the chance to break the record which currently stands at 32 seconds.
Thursday 6 November By Georgina Bayly Western Australian Ryan Whiddett is swimming at his seventh masters series meet this week at the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games on the Gold Coast. This week’s Masters Games is the eighth event in …
Thursday 6 November 2014 By Ashley Gaden Japanese competitors prove they aren’t behind the times after making a splash at the first day of the swimming at the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games. Tokyo residents Tsuyoki Fukuda and Ken Takahira …
Yeronga Yabbies Masters Swimming members (L-R) Claire Huegill, Linda Otten, Jenn Reed and Susanne Milenkevich are stoked to meet Olympic swimming champion Leisel Jones after their gold medal win in the 120-158 compound age medley relay at the Southport Olympic …
There’s no place like home say swimming jetsetters and Miami Masters teammates Denise Robertson, 77, and Margaret Fittock, 71. Both were looking to make a splash on the first day of the 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games (3-11November) swimming competition …
