About Longevity World Cup
I grew up wanting to play football at the highest level. Like most sports, football gives you a brutal bargain: if you are lucky, you get a few good years, and then age starts pushing you out.
Longevity World Cup exists for the opposite reason. It is a sport for time. Instead of asking how fast you can run at twenty, it asks how much biological age you can take back at forty, fifty, sixty, or beyond.
The silhouette of Michael Lustgarten, PhD, the inaugural Longevity World Cup champion.
What it is
Longevity World Cup is an open competition where longevity athletes rank by improving biological age measures.
The scoreboard is built around biomarker data and biological aging clocks. Athletes submit result data, the competition calculates biological age, and the leaderboard ranks athletes by Age reduction: how far their biological age is below their chronological age.
That gives longevity practice a number, a season, rivals, and a public record. It turns private health optimization into longevity sport.
Why I started it
Games are powerful because they turn difficult work into something people voluntarily come back to. If the rules are clear and the scoreboard matters, people train harder, compare notes, and improve together.
Longevity may be the most useful game we can build, because the scarce resource is time. Chronological age cannot be played. Biological age can be measured, compared, improved, and improved again as better clocks emerge.
Before starting the competition, I spent more than a year interviewing longevity athletes in long form. The Immortal Combat podcast now has 60+ conversations with athletes, researchers, and builders trying to understand what actually moves the field forward.
How it works
Longevity athletes compete through biological aging clocks such as pheno age and bortz age. Each clock uses a defined set of biomarkers and converts them into a biological age.
The competition has tracks, seasons, leagues, and a public leaderboard. Some clocks are all-time competitions; others are seasonal. The exact submission requirements, tracks, ranking rules, and prize mechanics live in the Ruleset.
Built in public
The leaderboard is public. The Ruleset explains tracks, seasons, ranking, submissions, and prize mechanics. The Markdown behind About, History, and Ruleset is linked from each page. The code lives on GitHub.
The surrounding conversation is public too. The Immortal Combat podcast has 60+ long-form conversations with longevity athletes, researchers, and builders.
Bitcoin donations fund the prize pool. The donation split and payout timing are in the Ruleset.
Who builds it
Longevity World Cup is a free and open-source project built with its community.
I am Adam Ficsor, and online I publish as nopara73. I started the competition after a year of long-form conversations with longevity athletes and researchers.
But the project is not just me. Klaus Townsend created the Longevity World Cup merch store. Michael Lustgarten, PhD, the 2025 champion, created the US blood panel linked from the bortz age flow, covering the biomarkers for both bortz age and pheno age. Athletes, developers, donors, guests, and contributors keep pushing the sport forward.
Where to go next
- Leaderboard: See the current competition standings.
- Ruleset: Read the tracks, seasons, ranking rules, and prize mechanics.
- History: Follow how longevity became a sport.
- Immortal Combat podcast: Watch long-form conversations with longevity athletes.
- GitHub: Contribute to the open-source project.