100-year-old woman wins shot put gold

For a sports fesitval that brings together "forever young" seniors from across the world, it is only fitting that the star of the show should be an 100-year-old shotputting great-grandmother from Queensland.

Ruth Frith has taken the World Masters Games in Sydney by storm, securing a world record with her gold medal-winning shot put throw of 4.07m - a distance that would put many younger rivals to shame.



While Frith was guaranteed a gold medal because she was the only competitor in the women aged 100-104 category, the sportswoman, who doesn't drink or smoke, has attributed her longevity, and her stamina, to preparation.

The oldest female competitor at the Games trained six days a week in the run up to the event, bench-pressing 80lb weights.



The secret to her success, she said, was a life-long aversion to vegetables.

"Don't eat vegetables, because I never eat vegetables. I know people that like diets that will scream at me, (but) don't eat vegetables. I never have," she said.