21. November 2013  
Halle, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Johanna Quaas: With 88 years as fit as ever 'and ever!

On Wednesday Johanna Quaas, the "world's oldest active gymnast" - evidenced by inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records (2012) - celebrated her 88th birthday, in her hometown Halle / Saale, in the middle of Germany. A few weeks ago she had been announced, to start at her last official competition (Cottbus Memorial 2013).
But connoisseurs of the scene believe that this dynamic and fit lady, probably in 2014, a few weeks before her favorite traditional competition, the Freyburg Jahn gymnastics festival, will be restless again, and even participate there but probably would not be completely ruled out. "Of course I have also been a few problems in the shoulder, for example, but at the last race in Cottbus, were blown away,"
Now she wondered: "... Maybe you should stop but not yet! With the training anyway! Since it's done, of course, almost every day on! "

Also the younger generation knows Johanna Quaas. Her autographs as 'Turnfest' ambassador in Mannheim (May 2013) were in great demand.