--- title: Australian 102-Year-Old Woman Is World's Oldest Skydiver description: A 102-year-old woman from Adelaide, Australia has become the world's oldest skydiver after her latest jaunt in the sky. canonical: https://time.com/5477744/oldest-skydiver/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-12T16:07:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:23.001Z og:title: Intrepid 102-Year-Old Woman Is World's Oldest Skydiver og:description: And she did it for a good cause og:url: https://time.com/5477744/oldest-skydiver/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdeb26b10bb6d9544/6989415b86f68e25066eaf55/102-year-old-woman-is-worlds-oldest-skydiver.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Parachutist jump from the plane. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Intrepid 102-Year-Old Woman Is World's Oldest Skydiver twitter:description: And she did it for a good cause twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdeb26b10bb6d9544/6989415b86f68e25066eaf55/102-year-old-woman-is-worlds-oldest-skydiver.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fearless 102-Year-Old Woman Just Became the World's Oldest Skydiver  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 12, 2018 4:07 PM UTC  Skydiving SkydivingMauricio Graiki—Getty Images/iStockphoto  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 12, 2018 4:07 PM UTC An intrepid 102-year-old woman from Athelstone, Australia has just become the world’s oldest [skydiver](http://time.com/3967567/skydiving-for-charity/) after her latest jaunt in the sky. According to [_ABC News_](https://abcnews.go.com/International/102-year-oldest-skydiver-world-jumping-charity/story?id=59729667), Irene O’Shea has been skydiving every year since she turned 100, a milestone that she celebrated by skydiving for the first time. The fearless senior citizen isn’t just jumping into thin air for the thrills, however — she’s using her [sky high adventures](http://time.com/3765966/skydiving-american-lifestyle/) this year to raise awareness and money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of South Australia in honor of her daughter who died of the disease. SA Skydiving, the Adelaide-based company that O’Shea has been jumping with since she took to this thrilling past time, reports that she jumped from 14,000 feet at their Langhorne Creek Dropzone, alongside instructor Jed Smith. The pair fell at 136 mph before the parachute deployed, enjoying magnificent views of Langhorne Creek and Lake Alexandrina along the way. When on the ground, O’Shea’s friends and family, including both her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, were waiting to greet her and celebrate her birthday feat. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5477744/oldest-skydiver/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5477744/oldest-skydiver/"},"headline":"Fearless 102-Year-Old Woman Just Became the World's Oldest Skydiver","datePublished":"2018-12-12T16:07:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:23.001Z","description":"And she did it for a good cause","url":"https://time.com/5477744/oldest-skydiver/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdeb26b10bb6d9544/6989415b86f68e25066eaf55/102-year-old-woman-is-worlds-oldest-skydiver.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdeb26b10bb6d9544/6989415b86f68e25066eaf55/102-year-old-woman-is-worlds-oldest-skydiver.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Parachutist jump from the plane.","caption":"Parachutist jump from the plane.","creditText":"Mauricio Graiki—Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5477744/oldest-skydiver/","name":"Fearless 102-Year-Old Woman Just Became the World's Oldest Skydiver"}}]}] ```