86-year-old Johanna Quaas showed off her gymnastics skills at the 2012 Cottbus World Cup

Johanna Quaas showed off her skills at the 2012 Cottbus , where she wowed the crowd with her moves, performing an impressive and floor demonstration.

Ultra flexible Johanna Quaas, 86, of Halle, Saxony, was a late starter, beginning her gymnastics training at the age of 30. But that hasn’t held her back.

More than fifty years on she still steals the show from her younger rivals, as a multiple time senior champion of in Germany.

Octogenarian Johanna Quaas showed off her skills at the 2012 Cottbus World Cup in Germany photo

Octogenarian Johanna Quaas showed off her skills at the 2012 Cottbus World Cup in Germany

As Johanna Quaas performs routines with the balance, strength and flexibility of a 20-year-old, this geriatric granny could easily be a quarter of her age – were it not for her tell-tale curly bob of snow-white hair and specs balanced on her nose.

And her gymnastic prowess is not the only trophy in her cabinet, Johanna Quaas was once a member of the East German handball champion team, too.

 

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