Dr Charles Eugster ran the 100m in 23.87 seconds and the 200m in 57.26 seconds, and is currently peering toward up the World Championships
A 96-year-old sprinter has moved back the years by setting another British record in the 100 and 200 meters.
Dr Charles Eugster ran the 100m in 23.78 seconds in the M-95 (guys matured 95 or over) class at the
British Masters at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, on Saturday July 25.
He then took after that up with a record-softening 57.27 seconds up the 200m on the Sunday - 0.8 seconds speedier than his time a year ago.
The high-octane OAP as of now holds the world record in the M-95 class for 200m inside, which he set at the British Masters Championships in Lee Valley recently and bettered in Poland at the European Championships.
Previous dental practitioner Charles, who was conceived in London, said: "In the UK no one of my age had endeavored to run these races intensely, so i should simply lurch over the completion line alive.
"I was truly satisfied with my time however, it must be of a certain standard or else it wouldn't have been acknowledged.
"I was very astonished toward the completion that I wasn't as knackered as I as a rule am!"
As Charles is normally the main individual in his age section, he every now and again keeps running nearby competitors from more youthful age classifications - and he concedes the ladies can be a diversion.
He said: "In one of my races I kept running with the more than 70s ladies. It gave me a motivator - to pursue a female base."
While Charles has a pull of paddling awards, he just started running intensely in 2014.
He now has his sights set on the World Championships in Lyon in August of this current year.
The nonagenarian initially swung to working out at 87 years old subsequent to developing nauseated at his own particular maturing body.
He now lives by a strict mantra of work, nourishment and work out, and makes a trip far and wide to lecture the advantages of staying dynamic into maturity.
He said: "Maturity is something to anticipate - it can the most pleasant, wondrous, staggering, energizing time of anyone's life.
"Yet, from the time of around 50, we all begin losing bulk - so it's essential to stay dynamic."
Furthermore, Charles says his most prominent motivation to stay fit as a fiddle comes not from the sports world, but rather from the Queen.
He said: "She doesn't resign, she is almost 90, she has a rebuffing timetable - I feel that she sets a magnificent illustration and I think her subjects ought to do likewise.
"When I resigned I envisioned it would be similar to an unending occasion, yet it opened a way to an assembly of repulsions.
"Beginning lifting weights spared my life, yet I took that to the extent I could. Presently I need to see what I can accomplish in the realm of running.
"I need individuals to realize that you can reboot your body at any age - you're never excessively old."
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