20. November 2020  
Halle, Sa./GER  
Seniorensport

Johanna Quaas: "My 95th Birthday ...!

"Many thanks to all the well-wishers who think of me ...!

"It is a proud number and a grace to be able to reach such an old age! You enjoy every day when you can cope with everyday life without great restrictions, like me. In my life, daily exercise has always helped me through sport. Since I was 56 years old - that was in 1981, when my children were "out of the house" - I had started active apparatus gymnastics again, doing it in a competitive age-appropriate and permanent manner. I was a regular participant in German gymnastics festivals as early as the GDR era and in the new millennium I won the title of "German Senior Gymnastics Champion" in my age group 11 times in a row ...!"


Ein Kopfstand mit 95? ... kein Problem!

"With these successes, I was listed in the "Guinness Book of World Records" in 2013 as 'the world's oldest active competitive gymnast'. I am still in it, although I no longer do any active competitive sport on gymnastics equipment: Two years ago I tore off a biceps tendon with an awkward movement in everyday life and a slight osteoarthritis is also unpleasantly noticeable in my left knee ...!
Nevertheless, I stay active, still go to the gymnastics hall at the Post-Verein in my hometown Halle, also because I find the community of older health athletes there, which is very important to me. I am still active in everyday life with cycling and of course in the morning, for mobilization, I cannot and will not do without my bed gymnastics "!
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Of course, I can still do simple gymnastics, as you can see in the recordings five years ago ...:

Of course, there will be no big birthday party this week due to the corona restrictions! I will definitely make up for that in the next spring! "

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