A woman who recently won the title as "the oldest gymnast in the world" in the "Guinness Book of World Records" has done a parachute jump in honour of the Queen’s 90th birthday. Johanna Quaas, 90, jumped from a plane on Sunday morning near Leipzig in Germany. Mrs Quass appeared to be unfazed by the jump and smiled for cameras after she landed. it is not the first time she has been noticed for her youthful, sporty ways. Mrs Quass became an Internet sensation after publishing a video gy the European Gymnastics Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL" and after astonishing onlookers when she competed in the 2012 Cottbus World Cup, an international gymnastics competition in Germany.
The pensioner reportedly does intensive sport at least four times a week. She told German newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote: “I will not stop with the sport. Movement is crucial, and gymnastics is my passion.” Mrs Quass decided to devote the parachute jump to the British Monarch because they share the same age.
In Germany she is also an ambassadore for senior fittness campaign "Deutschland trained" ...!
Johanna Quaas, with 90 years her first parachuting, together with the former world champion on high bar, Eberhard Gienger as tandem master - in a high of more than 3.000 meters near Leipzig.
♦♦ Parachuting with 90 Years with Tandem Master Eberhard GIENGER:
♦ Media circus in glorious weather in Boehlen
TV crews came from all over Germany and even the Associated Press (AP) was worth a TV team who so acts in Germany as an "ambassador for Seniors Sports Action" GERMANY TRAINED " this parachute jump of fit Gymnastcs - grandmother.
More referrals from around the world are for her even before, as in the streets of London to advertise there for elderly or infirm, as Johanna Quaas been to New York's "Fifth Avenue" or a poster campaign in the Olympic city of Barcelona ..
... to free fall and fantastic flight, safe landing a happy Johanna Quaas who was received with flowers ...: |
* Flowers after happy landing ... |