Sunday 5 April 2015

100-Year-Old Japanese Woman Swims 1,500 Meters in the Masters Swimming Competition

In the masters swimming competition in Matsuyama, Mieko Nagaoka, a 100-year-old Japanese female swimmer, finished a 1,500 meters swim in one hour, 15 minutes and 54.39 seconds, a media report said on Sunday. Nagaoka achieved this feat on Saturday, Xinhua reported. Mieko Nagaoka, born in 1914, took up swimming at the age of 82 to recover from a knee injury. In the beginning, Nagaoka did not know how to swim. She used to come to the swimming pool to do ...

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