百岁老人驰骋运动会赛场，破五项世界纪录（英文）

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Don Pellmann had been at the San Diego Mesa College track for less than an hour Sunday morning and had already moved his lawn chair twice to remain in the shade, which was receding fast. By the time Pellmann set his fifth age-group world record, in the early afternoon, the temperature on the track was creeping toward 100, which also happens to be the birthday Pellmann recently celebrated.

    查看大图 丹·佩尔曼九年来一直试图打破赛会撑杆跳记录，成为逾越约0.97米标杆的年龄最大的运动员。比赛中，他三次撞杆，当天剩下的时光都感到沮丧。

    Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times

    丹·佩尔曼九年来一直试图打破赛会撑杆跳记录，成为逾越约0.97米标杆的年龄最大的运动员。比赛中，他三次撞杆，当天剩下的时光都感到沮丧。

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Pellmann, the most senior athlete in the San Diego Senior Olympics, became the first centenarian to break 27 seconds in the 100-meter dash and the first to clear an official height in the high jump. He also broke records for men in the 100-and-over age group in the shot-put and the discus and set a record in the long jump.

Wearing baggy shorts and a faded red T-shirt with “Donald Pellmann Established 1915 Milwaukee, WI” written across the front, he opened his program by trying to become the oldest man, by roughly nine years, to record a height in the pole vault. He dislodged the bar three times at 3 feet 1 ¾ inches, which gnawed at him the rest of the day.

“I thought I was in better shape,” he said.

The meet volunteers, composed of students from San Diego State’s nursing program and Mesa College’s track team, were awed by Pellmann’s fitness level. They sought him out between his events to express their admiration.

“He’s very, very steady on his feet, and his posture’s very erect,” Sarah Provencher, one of the nursing students, said. “He doesn’t have as much bone and muscle degeneration as others in his age group. You can see he has really maintained his muscles.”

Samantha Foster, 17, a freshman pole-vaulter on the Mesa track team, planted herself so close to the pit that she could hear Pellmann muttering to himself after each of his three vaults. “I love when he says he needs more practice,” she said. “It’s cool to watch him being able to still do this at 100.”

His fellow competitors also sought him out for selfies, including 57-year-old Robert Silva, who said, “You see people that are 100 run, but to see someone that age pole-vault or long jump, that’s another galaxy.”