{"id":3806,"date":"2008-10-08T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T07:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:50:28","slug":"athlete-goes-for-the-100-meter-world-record-fastest-over-age-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3806","title":{"rendered":"Athlete goes for the 100 meter world record &#8211; fastest over age 95!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cool &#8211; 94 and going strong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegearjunkie.com\/fastest-grandpa-on-the-planet\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Fastest Grandpa on the Planet | The Daily Dose | The Gear Junkie<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>Indeed, running multiple events in the Senior Olympics Hammond has won more than a dozen gold medals since 2001. He has set records for his age class, running 100 meters in 18.09 seconds and 200 meters in 42.35 seconds. \u201cI\u2019m going for world records next year,\u201d he said, referring to the National Senior Games to be held in San Francisco August 1 \u2013 15, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be 95 when his flight lands next summer at San Francisco International, track shoes and running shorts in tow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cool &#8211; 94 and going strong. Fastest Grandpa on the Planet | The Daily Dose | The Gear Junkie Indeed, running multiple events in the Senior Olympics Hammond has won more than a dozen gold medals since 2001. He has set records for his age class, running 100 meters in 18.09 seconds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}