George Corones with 99 years, swam 50 meters in 56 seconds

George Corones is a 100-year-old swimmer with a incredible record for its category, swim the 50 free meters in 56 seconds , which he did in the past Commonwealth Games last year

Although time has passed for this feat, it is always nice to remember that there is no age for sport. You can see in the following video how the record was broken

George always liked the sport of swimming, he was a swimmer in school and in college, but he had to experience one of the worst episodes of humanity participating in World War II. After this and for several years, he returned to swimming at the age of 80, resuming his old hobby of swimming.

From there he has not stopped setting records, achieving at the age of 94 the records in the 50 and 100 free meters. The previous year he placed first, second and third in a series of tests for swimmers between 90 and 94 years old held at the World Championships in Italy.

Your workout: 3 swimming days and two gym days

His training at the time of the record was summed up in three days of swimming a week and two days of work in the gym and now with 100 years he continues practicing sports.

This is the publication that your swim team made when you got the record

We hope to see you swimming again to make us enjoy and motivate ourselves in our day to day.

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