Julia Hawkins from Louisiana, nicknamed “Hurricane”, sprinted the 100 meters in a fabulous 1:02 minutes. Your training schedule should astonish sports science.
In Newtonian mechanics there is the concept of relative speed. But we don’t want to deal with that in more detail here because it would be too complicated. However, it should be clear to everyone that, for example, in the fable of the hare and the hedgehog, the hare objectively ran faster in relation to the hedgehog. The hedgehog only won because he posted a doppelganger at the other end of the racetrack, thus cheating in a way that put even legendary doping offenders like the 100-meter sprinter Ben Johnson in the shade.
Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins doesn’t need doping or doppelganger tricks. At the Senior Games in Hammond, Louisiana, the American sprinter has just set a national and world record over 100 meters with an amazing time of one minute and two seconds. This makes her the first ever athlete to set a 100-meter record in her age group. Julia Hawkins was born in 1916, so 105 years old.
She has earned her nickname since she started taking part in senior athletics competitions at the age of 100. In 2017, at the age of 101, she set her first world record: 39.62 seconds for 100 yards (about 91 meters). She doesn’t want to train too much for it, as she once did New York Times betrayed, but rather save the strength for the actual races. Now you could say that the new world record holder has the lower relative speed compared to Usain Bolt. But in relation to its direct competition it cannot lose at all. Because in the age group over 105 Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins only competes against herself.
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