Travel and sports records: famous people who changed their lives in old age

Edition TJournal collected stories of people over 70 years old who remain athletes, learn new professions or create families.

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According to World Health Organization (WHO), the elderly is considered to be the age between 60 and 75 years old, senile - between 75 and 90, and since 90 years, a person is considered a long-liver. WHO projectedBy 2050, the share of the population in people over 60 years old will increase worldwide and in many European countries will be about 30%.

In 2015, a group of scientists from the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom introduced report, where it was reported that human organisms age at different rates. By the participants experiment there were people aged 38 years, while their biological age varied between 28 and 61. Scientists believe that biological aging can be slowed down if you lead a healthy lifestyle and abandon bad habits.

Physical abilities in old age

94-year-old Zoya Marynich - practices yoga and breathing exercises

Zoya Marynich was born in the city of Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory, and her student years fell to war. She fell into a partisan detachment and ended up in German captivity during the mission. After several days of interrogation, they decided to shoot her, but Marikha helped her escape, her friend from a family of German immigrants, who during the war worked as a translator for a German officer.

After the war, Marynich continued to serve in intelligence and conducted political studies in the fighter battalion of the NKVD troops. During 70 years the woman did not disclose the details of the completed tasks. She is a teacher by profession, and 43 years of life worked school teacher of biology and geography.

In 2001, the 74-year-old Marinich took a great interest in yoga and breathing exercises to defeat the ragweed allergy she had been struggling with for many years. According to women, when she worked, income allowed her to leave the city during flowering. But after retirement, money became scarce, so Marynich took up breathing exercises. After that, the problem with allergies went away.

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Over 18 years old woman attends "Academy of a healthy lifestyle." In addition to good health and physical fitness, she makes a stretch, a “birch”, a headstand and sits in the lotus position. She managed to keep her teeth and good eyesight, and once a week she visits the pool.

94-year-old Johanna Kaas is an active gymnast

The experience of Marynich is far from unique. Her peer from Germany Johanna Kaas puts sports records at home. She increased in a family of professional gymnasts, but since childhood, trainers called her unpromising in gymnastics. Instead she was engaged handball, she worked as a physical education teacher and learned to be a coach, in which she returned to gymnastics.

In 1982, 57-year-old Johanna resumed her sports career and took part in sports competitions GDR in gymnastics. She spoke after the reunification of Germany in 1989 and won 11 times in the nomination for sports veterans. By the age of 94, Kaas is an active athlete.

In 2012, a woman was introduced in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest gymnast in the world. And in 2016, 90-year-old Kaas jumped with a parachute, devoting leap to the same age - Queen Elizabeth. According to Kaas, she does gymnastics so as not to be susceptible to falls.

108-year-old Robert Marshan - completed the career of a cyclist in 105 years

In 2012, 101-year-old Frenchman Robert Marchand set a world record for the age group of 100-105 years, having traveled by bicycle for almost 30 kilometers in an hour. “I'm not here to become a champion, but to prove that at 105 years old a person can still ride a bicycle,” he said.

Medical studies of the body provedthat the level of aerobic training of Marchand is higher than that of 50-year-olds. Moreover, with age, his physical abilities increased. According to a specialist in the field of fitness, Dr. Vond Wright, the reason lies in the VO2 max indicator - the body's ability to use oxygen. Usually, physical abilities decrease with age, but if an older athlete continues training, then VO2 max is increasing.

Robert has never been a professional athlete. He worked a fireman in Paris, during the war, got on front and there was a Nazi captivity, and after the war he worked in Venezuela on cane plantations and a woodcutter in Canada. Then he returned to France and have worked the gardener. Only at the age of 67, Marchand began to engage in cycling regularly.

Marshan considers the key to physical fitness proper diet: a lot of vegetables and fruits, a little meat and an almost complete absence of caffeine. Robert regularly trains, spends an hour a day on a bicycle or exercise bike and does stretching. Elderly athlete I do not smoke, occasionally allows himself a glass of wine and complies with the regime: going to bed at 9 pm and rising at 6 in the morning.

At the age of 106, an elderly cyclist completed a sports careerbut he plans to keep cycling for fun.

74-year-old Isaac Hayik - active football goalkeeper

In April 2019, 74-year-old Israeli football goalkeeper Isaac Hayik have made to the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest football player in the world, who played in the official match of professional clubs. He plays for Ironi Or Yehuda, playing in the Bet League - Israel’s fourth football division.

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Isaac does not plan to leave the sport as long as his physical abilities and health allow him to play football. One of his sons, Moshe, is 36 years old. is he confessedthat during a game with his father, football is exhaled faster than an elderly man.

Traveling in old age

According to National Tourism UnionThe most traveling retirees live in Denmark, Mexico, Switzerland, Panama, Norway, the USA, Germany, Spain and France. The average pension in these countries varies from $ 1000 (in France) to $ 2800 (in Denmark).

91-year-old traveler Elena Erhova

Elena Erhova from Krasnoyarsk began to travel the world at 83 years old. On the travel the woman did not take money from her relatives, but saved from retirement and earned money by knitting and selling flowers. When accumulated the right amount, she turned to a travel agency for a ticket.

Her veteran pension along with allowances for age was 24-25 thousand rubles, and household expenses were less than two thousand for utilities. The woman also spent little on food, thanks to which she saved 10 thousand rubles a month.

In 2016, a traveler was found out on the Internet. In Vietnam, a compatriot met her Ekaterina Papina and wrote a post about it on Facebook. With her help, an elderly woman opened accounts in social networks and start get donations from random people. Her invited on television shows, giving tickets to Italy and Thailand.

For almost 8 years of travel Erhova visited 21 countries. She visited the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic and Thailand, and also traveled to many cities of Russia. A woman riding a horse in Altai, participated in a motorcycle race in Germany, rode a motorcycle in Vietnam, celebrated the 90th anniversary in Dominican Republic and bathed in Jordan.

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In December 2018, a woman planned to visit Brazil, but did not have time - in January, 91-year-old Erhova passed away from cancer. She rarely complained about the disease, often repeating that traveling helps her live on. In recent years, she only regretted that she had not started traveling earlier.

72-year-old extreme traveler Jean-Jacques Savin

French 2018 former paratrooper, forester and pilot Jean-Jacques Savin I decided to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel, using only the strength of the ocean current. For this he constructed independently sealed travel capsule with an area of ​​6 m² and equipped it with a bed, kitchen equipment and a porthole.

For 122 days and nine hours Savin overcame 4500 kilometers by water. He is his 72nd birthday celebrated on a journey, taking with him two bottles of wine and foie gras. In April 2019, a man safely approached the goal. His mastermind he called French traveler Alain Bombard, who in 1952 without supplies of water and food crossed Atlantic in 65 days.

Relationships and older children

According to Institute of Demography Higher School of Economics, the creation of families in old age is not a mass phenomenon. Mostly, people at a later age build relationships to avoid being alone, to receive attention and care. Researchers notethat most often, older people re-create a family in the first decade after retirement, since at this age, pensioners are still physically and socially active.

In 2010 in St. Petersburg submit an application A 104-year-old man came to the registry office with his 74-year-old bride. In 2018, in Omsk, marriage have entered 35 men and 17 women over 75 years old. The oldest groom turned 97 years old, and the bride - 89.

106-year-old bride of Valdemira Rodriguez de Oliveira

In 2017, get married came out 106-year-old Brazilian Valdemira Rodriguez de Oliveira, who met her future spouse in a nursing home. There was also a wedding ceremony. Groom Aparecido Jacob is 40 years younger than his wife, but admitted that fell in love to the future wife at first sight. For a woman, this is the first marriage.

The bride’s relatives are no longer alive, and the groom doesn’t keep in touch with relatives, so the volunteers helped organize the wedding, the newlyweds prepared wedding suits and makeup for the bride, and among the guests there were employees of the nursing home.

64-year-old Galina Shubenina, who became a mother at 60

In 2015, Muscovite Galina Shubenina gave birth to her daughter Cleopatra. Shubenina had an adult son who perished in the past, and her husband has a 27-year-old daughter. It is not known whether conception occurred naturally or through IVF. According to media reports, during pregnancy and childbirth, the age mother did not have problems, her daughter was born healthy. Before getting pregnant, woman passed examination, her health was confirmed by doctors.

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“Of course, the case is unique, but I took birth in women at the age of 45 and at the age of 50. Now it is not uncommon. True, I see a 60-year-old woman in labor for the first time, ”said gynecologist Nestor Meskhi, who took birth. A family lives in a one-room apartment with a total income of 34 thousand rubles for three people. Shubenin is already retired, and her husband, an employee of a research institute, receives 14 thousand rubles. Later elderly mom plans to to get a job.

Erramatti Mangayamme, who became a mother at 74

In 2019, a resident of India, Erramatti Mangayamme got Guinness Book of Records as the oldest mom. Her husband is 80 years old, and the couple have lived together for 57 years. The woman became pregnant through IVF procedures and gave birth to twins.

During pregnancy, the condition of the woman watched 10 doctors. After giving birth, Erramatti had no health problems, so she soon returned to an active life.

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