{"id":66,"date":"2025-05-23T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/thai-athlete-105-unrivalled-but-not-lonely-at-world-masters-games\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:31:12","slug":"thai-athlete-105-unrivalled-but-not-lonely-at-world-masters-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/thai-athlete-105-unrivalled-but-not-lonely-at-world-masters-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai athlete, 105, unrivalled but not lonely at World Masters Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year&#8217;s edition is more than twice as big as the 2024 Paris Olympics in terms of competitor numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Sawang, a father of five, began exercising at the age of 90, inspired by Siripan and a desire to avoid becoming bedridden like his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Three to four times a week, Sawang joins his daughter to trot on a beach near their home in Rayong in eastern Thailand. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sometimes like to walk, sometimes run,&#8221; said Sawang, peering at AFP through aviator sunglasses as he explained his training regimen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I do javelin throw, depending on what I have to do for competitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other times, Sawang said he just goes to the local market.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s proved to be a winning strategy, with the wiry centenarian winning more than 60 medals on the masters circuit. <\/p>\n<p>Sawang added four more golds to his collection this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Exercise makes life better&#8217; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>A smattering of spectators was in the stadium as Sawang competed in the shot put, his last event of the Games. <\/p>\n<p>Before the first throw, Sawang lined up with other sprightly shot putters in the 80+, 85+ and 90+ age groups to be introduced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    Sawang Janpram is in a league of his own at the World Masters Games in Taiwan &#8212; at 105 he is the oldest competitor and the only person in his age group.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 07:31<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 07:27<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 2 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"e0080b78a88ba0ad9168dfaf1e7c10f953389990.jpg\" alt=\"Thailand&#039;s Sawang Janpram is the oldest competitor at the World Masters Games\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}