{"id":324739,"date":"2026-02-07T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/324739\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:28:10","slug":"how-people-like-70-year-old-chow-yun-fat-keep-pushing-their-endurance-limits-as-they-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/324739\/","title":{"rendered":"How people like 70-year-old Chow Yun-fat keep pushing their endurance limits as they age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong actors Chow Yun-fat, 70, Kent Cheng, 74, Lau Kong, 79, and Paw Hee-ching, 76, made headlines in January for being among the oldest participants in the 10km event at the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2026.<\/p>\n

In 2025, the then 69-year-old Chow ran the half-marathon<\/a> at the event, completing the 13.1-mile (21km) race in two hours, 24 minutes and 33 seconds.Recently, a growing number of people in their sixties, seventies, eighties and older have been in the news for taking part in endurance events<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, 80-year-old American Natalie Grabow became the oldest woman to finish the 140.6-mile (226.3km) Ironman World Championship triathlon in Kona, Hawaii.<\/p>\n

This gruelling race includes a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a full marathon run.<\/p>\n

Korean-American Jeannie Rice, who turns 78 in April, is known for being a fast runner for her age. She has taken part in many marathons, including the 2025 Tokyo Marathon and the 2024 London Marathon \u2013 in which she set a new age-group record of three hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.<\/p>\n

\"JeannieJeannie Rice runs during a half-marathon in Naples, Florida, on January 18, 2026. The 77-year-old completed the race in 1:43:13, taking first place among the three competitors in the women\u2019s 75- to 79-year-old age group. Photo: Facebook\/jeannie.k.rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong actors Chow Yun-fat, 70, Kent Cheng, 74, Lau Kong, 79, and Paw Hee-ching, 76, made headlines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[1128,156216,104086,18,156207,156219,7787,8241,156209,4202,77725,19,17,76421,156214,156218,156203,156215,156204,156213,6093,127632,156217,24482,156205,156210,156202,156206,82,156212,156208,97647,156211],"class_list":["post-324739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-australia","tag-cairns","tag-chow-yun-fat","tag-eire","tag-endurance-races","tag-european-journal-of-preventive-cardiology","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-hawaii","tag-hiromu-inada","tag-hong-kong","tag-how-to-age-well","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ironman-world-championship","tag-jeannie-rice","tag-journal-of-applied-physiology","tag-kent-cheng","tag-kona","tag-lau-kong","tag-london-marathon","tag-malaysia","tag-marathon-running","tag-matilda-international-hospital","tag-merdeka-118","tag-paw-hee-ching","tag-recovering-from-an-endurance-race","tag-senior-athletes","tag-standard-chartered-hong-kong-marathon-2026","tag-technology","tag-the-sky-race","tag-tokyo-marathon","tag-vo2-max","tag-yim-pui-fun"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}