At 92 years old, Jim Blair is still adding medals to his overflowing trophy cabinet.
The Masters Games veteran won six gold medals at the event in Dunedin last week, where he took out the shot put, discus, hammer throw, javelin, weight throw and throws pentathlon.
1News caught up with Blair before the event where he took them through his training regime for the javelin throw.
“Fifteen metres is my average throw," said Blair. "Eighteen metres is my target as a competition throw."
But when competing, he finds himself in a very unique situation.
“There was a 90-year-old who set some records two years ago that I have a difficulty in beating," said Blair.
"That athlete was myself!"
Blair is proving age is but a number, the 92-year-old has been competing at masters events for almost 40 years, continuing his very long and varied sporting life.
In 1956 he was a part of Lower Hutt’s Stop Out Football Club who won the Chatham Cup, and he then was selected for the New Zealand football team.
But now he’s a world champion in masters athletics.
“Quite often I can have five or six competitors internationally but in New Zealand unfortunately I can win by default - that's not so enjoyable," Blair joked.
"As long as I’m above the ground, I hope to keep going.
"My motto is if you don't use it you'll lose it, so just keep going and enjoying it.”
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