Became the first female track and field athlete and the first American to set a world track and field record and set an age category of 105 years and over – At the next National Senior National Games in Fort Lauderdale, Florida she will be 106 years old.
It is a bird! It’s a plane! This is Julia Hawkins ! The super grandmother, who at the age of 105 breaks her own world records in the 100 meters .
She is the grandmother who proves that age is just a number and that if you have the will you can do everything. Until she turned 100, Julia Hawkins was another common age-old grandmother living in the United States.
At the age of 105, “Hurricane Hawkins”, as she is now nicknamed, set a world record in the 100-meter race on November 6 at the Louisiana Senior Games in Hammond . The centenarian crossed the finish line at 1:02:95 in front of her beloved friends and family.
With that achievement, Hawkins set a new world record, becoming the first female track and field athlete and the first American to set a world track record and set an age category of 105 years and over, according to the National Senior Races.
“It was wonderful to see so many family members and friends,” Hawkins said after the match, according to the organization. “But I wanted to do it in less than a minute,” the super-grandmother said, sending the message “Stay healthy and keep running. I will continue to run as long as I can “.
Hawkins, a Button-Rose resident in Louisiana, graduated from college in 1938 with a degree in teaching. As soon as she retired, at the age of 81 she rode a bicycle for the first time and even won two gold medals after the Olympic Games for the Elderly.
She set a world record in the 100+ age category, running the 50 meters in 46.07 seconds in 2019. Her training, as she has revealed, consists of maneuvers around her garden.
Due to her age, Hawkins is sometimes the only athlete on the sidelines and challenges her own records. But this does not always happen. Diane “Flash” Friedman broke her 100m world record for the 101-104 age groupat the Michigan Senior Olympics. The two are expected to face off at the National Senior Games in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, between May 10 and May 23, 2022. Hawkins will be 106 years old by then.
