15 Superhuman Feats Performed By Senior Citizens

You’ve heard it said age is just a number, and the people you’re about to read about are proof. With these 15 Superhuman Feats Performed by Senior Citizens, you, too, may believe in superheroes.

15. Tatyana Fomina

Superhuman feats are usually associated with guys in spandex packing muscles the size of mountains.

14. Charles Atlas

Charles Atlas, or Angelo Siciliano, started his fitness career at a much younger age than Tatyana Fomina, and becoming a senior citizen did little to slow his progress.

13. Joe Rollino

If a person can make it to age 104, he’s doing something right. Strongman Joe Rollino is no exception. A World War II veteran, Rollino spent the 1920s calling himself “the world’s strongest man,” and watching him move 3,200 pounds with his back left little room for argument.

12. Jack LaLanne

Almost one year to the day after Joe Rollino’s death, we lost another classic fitness hound in Jack LaLanne.

11. Larry Macon

Not all of the superhuman feats of strength performed by senior citizens have to involve weights and dumbbells.

10. Dale Davis

Wait, bowling!? Yes, bowling. Dale Davis deserves to be included here because at 78, he did one of the hardest things any man or woman could ever attempt– bowl a perfect game.

9. Jennifer Figge

Jennifer Figge is often credited for swimming across the entire Atlantic Ocean. This claim was a media boo-boo Deadspin correctly pointed out in February 2009.

8. Keiko Fukuda

Keiko Fukuda was approached in the 1930s by Judo master and founder Jigoro Kano. His request: help him start a women’s division for his popular discipline.

7. Allan Johnson

Most of us couldn’t imagine tackling the dangers of rodeo at any age, but at 80, Allan Johnson not only tackled them, he was a champion.

6. Lew Hollander

Lew Hollander hasn’t let the aging process stop him. At age 81, Hollander was still competing in Ironman triathlons, which consist of a 112-mile bike ride, a 2.4-mile swim, and a marathon, all in a single day.

5. Olga Kotelko

Olga Kotelko started defying age on the track-and-field circuit at 77. As of 2011, she held more than 20 world records as a plucky 92-year-old.

4. Edith Wilma Connor

In May 2012, Guinness World Records named Edith Wilma Connor the oldest competitive female bodybuilder at age 77.

3. Thomas Inch

Thomas Inch, inventor of the Inch Dumbbell, didn’t stop his superhuman feats with youth. His creation weighed more than 172 pounds and had a grip just shy of three inches in diameter.

2. Fauja Singh

In early 2013, Fauja Singh announced he would run his last race. The so-called “Turbaned Tornado” decided that at 101, he could leave the marathons to guys like Larry Macon (see No. 5).

1. Johanna Quaas

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Rounding out this list of superhuman feats performed by senior citizens, we go to the gymnastics world and Johanna Quaas, the oldest active gymnast in the world.