World of Sport  Veteran athletes shine with gutsy performances
Pensioners' sporting efforts generally tend to revolve around
genteel sports such as golf and bowls.  But a group of gutsy
senior citizens in Germany have been turning those
preconceptions on their heads at an indoor athletics
championships.  86-year-old Hans Eberle is probably the star of
the show. The sprinter and jumper is the star of his 85-years-
and-over age group with a 17.05 second 100m run under his belt,
and his famous 3.53m long jump at a meeting last summer would
have been good enough for the gold medal even in the under-80s.
Here are some pictures of the athletes in action in Baden-
Württemberg.  86-year-old Hans Eberle shows off the awesome long
jump technique that would have won him under-80 gold last
s …80-year-old Herman Kemmler outpaced Eberle in the 1500m;
Kemmler's PB is 7:31.2670-year-old decathlete Joseph Halder
soars over the pole vault bar, an event in which he's recorded
2.91m Christina Lipps, a 64-year-old heptathlete  76