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Rut Larsson with skydiver Joackim Johansson: "I always come down"
Photo: JEPPE GUSTAFSSON / EPA
A 103-year-old has set a world record with a skydive in Sweden.
As the oldest woman on earth to date, Swede Rut Larsson completed a tandem jump on Sunday afternoon near Motala, about 200 kilometers southwest of Stockholm.
As a video from the Swedish radio station SVT shows, she sailed to the ground in a bright blue sky, where she was received by helpers and her walker.
"It was wonderfully beautiful up there," she said afterwards.
A representative of the Guinness Book of Records took care of the official.
However, the new record is not yet visible on the Guinnes World Records website.
What fascinates her about skydiving is slowly falling from the sky, the elderly lady from the town of Mjölby told TT news agency.
Even if she can no longer see so well, it feels very good.
Before leaving, she told SVT that she wasn't worried: "I always come down."
Larsson had already completed a tandem jump for the first time in 2019.
The current one at the side of the skydiver Joackim Johansson was the second of her life.
The last record holder was the American Kathryn Hodges, who jumped out of a small plane near Seattle in August 2019 at the age of 103 years and 129 days.
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