Video: Meet the 100-year-old who ran a 100 metre dash in just 46 seconds
Ella Mae Colbert from South Carolina has possibly set a new Guinness World Record.
Age is just a number. And if you still don't want to believe it, just cast your eye on South Carolina in the United States, where a 100-year-old woman ran a 100 metre dash in 46 seconds, possibly setting a new world record.
Ella Mae Colbert returned to Chesnee Middle School, where she had taught for 36 years, to do something special. On Tuesday, she lined up at the track hoping to set the quickest time in a 100 metre dash by anyone over the age of 100.
On her first attempt, she tripped and fell. That might have been enough to discourage lesser mortals but not Collbert. With the crowd chanting her name, Collbert tried once again and completed the dash in just 46.791 seconds, far ahead of the earlier record time of one minute and 17 seconds.
The 100-year-old was quite nonchalant about why she attempted this feat. "I’d been running from high school and I got a little bored," she blithely admitted to WSPA. And, to everyone who doubts themselves, she had an important message, "Always look straight ahead and they’ll wonder how you got to the goal so fast."
