Johanna Quaas - oldest active Gymnast of the World!

Markkleeberg, Germany, 2012, April 07 17. International Senior Gala 2012 _________________________________________ The 11th-time German Senior Champion of artistic gymnastics in series, the 86-years old Johanna Quaas from Halle (Germany, Saxony-Anhalt) with her competition on parallel bars, which is one of her four competition apparatus for the agegroups over 70 resp. 80 years . She won this competition, although her rivals were more than 15 years younger! Her exercise on deep parallel bars is part of her all-around program, also with deep horizontal bar, floor exercise and gymnastic bench. (C) GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL Johanna Quaas, geboren 1925 (!), ist mit 86 Jahren nicht nur älteste aktive Wettkampfturnerin Deutschlands, sondern wohl auch der Welt. Am 7. April absolvierte sie ihren letzten Wettkampf zur 17. Internationalen Senioren-Gala 2012 in Markkleeberg, südlich von Leipzig. Ihre Barrenübung war Teil i