Multiple world-record holding Masters Swimmer, Jane Asher turned 88 in 2019 and is currently swimming in the 85-89 year old age group. She holds 22 current world records in a highly competitive sport. In the United States alone there are around 60,000 competitive masters swimmers and in the UK there are 17000 registered in clubs. And it’s not just the number of world records that she holds that’s astonishing, it’s the variety of strokes that she holds them in, and also the different distances she’s swum. The records she made in her early 70s are still standing. She holds 50m records in freestyle, fly and backstroke in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m distances as well as the endurance swim of 1500m. Her 50m freestyle record for the 85-89 year old age group is 38.75 seconds; that’s 19 seconds each way in a 25m pool. And her record for 100m in the same age group is 1:28.60.

Host: Alex Rotas
This episode was first released in 2019.

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