{"id":1155,"date":"2019-03-27T03:47:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:47:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:47:42","slug":"watch-this-91-year-old-grandmas-amazing-gymnastics-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Watch This 91-Year-Old Grandma&rsquo;s Amazing Gymnastics Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Quass was 9 years old when she entered her first gymnastics competition all the way back in 1934, and nearly 83 years later, the\u00a0nonagenarian still hasn\u2019\u200bt given it up. At a recent competition in Berlin, she was back on her favorite apparatus, the parallel bars, to perform a routine that hasn\u2019\u200bt eroded with age.<\/p>\n<p>The former high school physical education teacher has long been an athlete. In 1954, her handball team won the East German Championship and she\u2019\u200bs collected 11 senior German national gymnastic titles, including the first championship awarded after German reunification, which she calls her proudest achievement.<\/p>\n<p>When the Guinness Book of World Records certified Quass as the world\u2019s oldest gymnast five years ago, she said that she hoped to still be competing into her 90s. Staying active has allowed her to\u00a0meet that goal, and she encourages others to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI practice gymnastics only twice per week, but every day I do an hour of some sport or exercise\u2014usually swimming or a walk,\u201d\u200b Quass says. \u201cIf you stick with it you can definitely carry on at a high age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Quass was 9 years old when she entered her first gymnastics competition all the way back in 1934, and nearly 83 years later, the\u00a0nonagenarian still hasn\u2019\u200bt given it up. At a recent competition in Berlin, she was back on her favorite apparatus, the parallel bars, to perform a routine that hasn\u2019\u200bt eroded with age&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}