Hiromu Inada hopes to compete in the Ironman next year, aged 90
CHIBA (JAPAN) – Japan’s Hiromu Inada is watching the Tokyo Olympics hoping to pick up some tips from the athletes before he competes in next year’s Ironman world championship, at the age of 90.
“There’s so much to learn. I apply it to my training and it works! It’s fun,” the octogenarian athlete told AFP after one of his near-daily training sessions.
The Games are being held under strict virus rules, with spectators banned from almost all events, but that has not turned Inada off.
“I’m still having a great time.”
Inada, who turns 89 in November, already holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to complete an Ironman competition — a gruelling format involving swimming 3.86 kilometres, cycling 180.25 kilometres and running a…
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