Article by Oana Enemănescu – published on Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 13:01 / Updated Tuesday, June 3, 2025 13:02
British Sarah Roberts, 75, is a grandmother, but also a worldwide record holder. He started athletics at the age at which others have been left for a long time: Sarah began to run in parks just eight years ago.
Roberts has five grandchildren and says that, in his races, he is guided by instinct, not by the technology of today. As The Guardian writes, she is the fastest woman who has reached the world – she is a multiple world record holders, but also the world's multiple champion.
He has no training journal, he has no coach and no sports. Prefers to approach most of the (training or official) races without heating. “Before the competitions I make some stretching movements so that they do not seem unprofessional,” says the athlete.
Slender and Longilina, the English story of the Englishman started 8 years ago, on a vacation in South Africa, at a friend from Cape Town.
She invited Sarah and her husband, George, to a running through the park-5 kilometers, which they had to go through at their own pace, at the foot of the Mountain Mountain, in the shade of the trees there, in a very beautiful place.
Time obtained by Sarah Roberts have improved from year to year
When they returned home, in Hertfordshire, Roberts spouses decided to continue their new passion, to run in parks. For three years, almost every Saturday morning, the two participated in 5 -kilometer races. Sarah's time dropped from 30 minutes to 23.
A few weeks before he turned 70, he enrolled in an athletics club and an 800 -meter race.
“I discovered that I was becoming better and better. I had never been on an athletics track. I heard the starter of the start gun and I only knew I had to take two laps, ”said Sarah Roberts.
“The participants in the race was 15, 17 years old, only I was almost 70. They were running like gases. I finished running on their last, but they all told me that it was excellent for my age, ”said the English.
In 2022, after the Covid Pandemia, when Sarah could only run in the parks, she took part in another competition on a distance of 800 meters, along with other athletes in her age group.
Sarah Roberts holds multiple worldwide and long -distance records
“No one had heard of me, no one expected to do something remarkable,” said Sarah, who, a year later, became a double champion of the Britain in the age category 70-74.
In 2024, Roberts won three world titles – at 800, 1,500 and 5,000 meters. This year, in March, four indoor world titles were still staring.
Sarah has the best world performance from 800 meters to 10,000 meters, but also in the 5,000 and 10,000 m samples on the road.
In May, he added on the list of world records and one -mile and 10,000 meters, running the two races with a break of less than 90 minutes between them.
Running occupies 95 percent of Sarah's time, as her husband, George, says, who accompanies her in this late adventure in the country or abroad.
Sarah Roberts has the parameters of an athlete 50 years younger
The question on everyone's lips is: How can a woman who did not run before she turned 67 became the fastest on Earth to her age category?
Sarah Roberts, a lawyer, mother of two children, always went to the gym – practicing yoga, zumba, inspired boxing, abdominal, knee.
A few days before he turned 70, Roberts came out victorious between a planking contest (board) organized by the room he used to walk, stopping the stopwatch at 10 minutes and 15 seconds.
After obtaining a series of world records in Florida, Sarah Roberts was approached by several science people, eager to study more in -depth. They found that, in rest, its pulse decreases up to 38 beats per minute, and maximum oxygen consumption – a parameter that measures the body's ability to use oxygen during physical exertion – is 54.
Both data are comparable to those belonging to an elite athlete from much younger generations.
Sarah Roberts has no fat deposits at all. “I feel more form than ever, which is quite sensational. You do not expect to feel like this when you are 75,” Roberts said.
Sarah Roberts is an example that you can get on sports and in old age
Her workouts continue to be carried out at a minimum level – running and room. Remarkably, despite the old age, her times do nothing but improve from one competitive season to another.
“I would like people to believe that they can always be successful in any activation. You never know until you try,” believes athlete.
Asked if he ever thinks of the career he could have had if he had started athletics, Sarah Roberts gives an assumed answer: “No. I am happy with all my heart that I have discovered this talent now. I have lived a beautiful life and I liked everything I have done so far.
I am just as much enjoying what I live now. I am surprised by my performance, I never thought I would touch them, “concluded Sarah Roberts.
