Miyazaki’s daughter Kiyono added her father had not been sleeping well leading up to this year’s Kyoto Masters competition, experiencing pain in his legs.
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Miyazaki said he didn’t take up track and field until the age of 93. I’ve never had any health problems. “Doctor praise it. I will now have to start working out more with this result”.
“Today my target was 35 seconds…” He tells AFP he thinks he has two or three more years of running in him. The doctors are amazed by me.
The sprinter also set a record in 2013 at the age of 103, clocking in at 34.10 seconds for the 100m, and then again in 2014 when he came in at 34.61 seconds. He is already preparing for his next challenge, the Japanese Masters Championships, which is scheduled in October.
When asked about the secret to his running success, Mr Myazaki cited exercising daily, eating in moderation and making sure he chews every mouthful of his food properly.
Hidekichi was born in 1910 – while the Titanic was still being built. These days, he sports his now-famous bright-red T-shirt and white – and very short – running shorts and leaves the other centenarians in the dust.
He is sometimes referred to as the Golden Bolt, because he boldly imitates Usain Bolt’s renowned lightning pose. The number of people over 80 topped 10 million for the first time, of whom 60,000 are over 100 years old, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Japan this week.
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“So I’ll have to train harder”, says the poster boy for turbo-charged geriatrics in a country with one of the world’s highest life expectancies. “I felt deeply sorry”.
