Nali Perez Ramirez was born in 1946 in Moscow, Russia now she is 72 years old, her mother worked in a circus and her father wrote novels, she has 6 brothers and 4 sisters, she didn't go to school but she started gymnastics when she was 5 years. She got married to James Wilson, when she was 36 she moved to England because she went to the olympic team there, she bought a gym, so she could practise there every day. She had seven children: Federic, Jackson, Emily, Kayle, Rufus, Andrew and Helena. She has got two grandsons and two grandoughter.  She got divorced but she got engaged again with Susi Perez Rodrigez. She was the first grandmother that went to the olympic games, she is still alive. 

Johanna Quaas was born November 20, 1925 in Hohenmölsen, Germany. She started gymnastics at an early age and appeared in her first competition in 1934. After completion of school she worked in the obligatory social year. In 1945 she finished her job training as gymnastics coach in Stuttgart. Afterwards she moved to Weißenfels, where she started to train handball as gymnastics was banned by the Allied Control Council. In 1947 this ban was removed and she started again with gymnastics. In 1950 she started to study at University of Halle-Wittenberg. Afterwards she trained coaches at the Institut für Körpererziehung. In 1963 she married the gymnast coach Gerhard Quaas, with whom she has three daughters She co-authored the gymnastics text book "Gerätturnen".On September 13, 2012 it was announced that Quaas would receive an entry in The Guinness Book of Records as oldest gymnast in the world.