Archive for March, 2006
McBarnette and Barrineau leap to Linz golds
Bruce McBarnette, a Virginia lawyer, and 1976 Olympian Jim Barrineau collected gold medals in the M45 and M50 high jump, respectively, Sunday in Linz. Bruce set an M45 PR with his 1.96 (6-5) clearance, which turned back the challenge of Belgian Geert De Roose, who jumped 1.93 (6-4). Barrineau, who jumped 6-11 at age 40 […]
March 20, 2006
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On the fifth day, Collins rested — and others set WRs
“There was something of a minor sensation today,” writes Pete Mulholland, our man in Linz. “Bill Collins ran a race and didn’t break a world record! This Sunday was almost a day of rest as far as Collins was concerned as he just cruised two laps of the track in his heat with a steady […]
March 19, 2006
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Clarico, McCloud set world records in 60 hurdles — in heats
In the third of three heats of the M40 short hurdles today at Linz worlds, French Olympian Vincent Clarico clocked 7.95 seconds, nipping American Karl Smith’s world record for the 60-meter event of 7.96, set in 2000 and tied by Clarico a month ago. But America got a record back when Dexter McCloud (also in […]
March 19, 2006
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Annette Koop starts Linz blog — giving Germans equal time
Annette Koop, a world champion masters middle-distance runner, has started a blog from Linz — and I assume will eventually do for the Germans what Pete Mulholland does for his fellow Brits (shine a spotlight on their world meet performances). Pete’s reports (sent as Word document files for me to post on this blog) have […]
March 19, 2006
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Witness to history: Day 4 at Linz world masters
Pete Mulholland writes: “One of the most unusual sights seen at the Championships is the calm figure of Bill Collins standing – almost to attention – as his crouching opponents await starter’s orders. To the uneducated observer, Collins looks out of place: until the gun fires that is. Without the benefit of being propelled from […]
March 18, 2006
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Bill Collins adds world record in 60 meters at Linz
Houston’s Bill Collins, presumably wearing his own spikes this time, won the M55 60 world title today in 7.34 seconds after lowering his own world indoor record of 7.47 to 7.46 in the semifinal earlier in the day at Linz, Austria. So two days after twice setting an M55 WR in the 200 he does […]
March 18, 2006
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Chaplin-Swann sets AR as Americans dominate 800s
Americans broke up the British-German axis of middle-distance strength today at the Linz world masters meet, led by Lesley Chaplin-Swann who won W45 gold in 2:20.99 to set an American 800 age-group record (lowering her own indoor AR of 2:22.37). M65 Sid Howard (2:28.37) added another gold to his world medal collection. Steve Gallegos won […]
March 17, 2006
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Dissecting the debacle: stonewalling by Dr. Sander
By most public accounts, Dr. Norbert Sander is one hell of a guy. He’s the founder, president and CEO of the Armory Foundation, which operates a world-class indoor track, mainly for kids, in north Manhattan (but not far from New Jersey). Alan Webb became the first high school miler to go sub-4 indoors there in […]
March 16, 2006
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Boston lands another masters nationals — 2007 indoors
Arrivederci, Albuquerque. Buh-bye, Boise. Never mind, New Jersey. Boston’s Reggie Lewis Center will host the 2007 USATF National Masters Indoor Championships. Also the 2006 host, Boston has been the site of indoor nationals for all but one of the past eight or so years. More than a half-dozen other host cities had been mentioned as […]
March 16, 2006
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Bill Collins: Two world records in the 200 on same day!
“Not such a long day at the office,” begins Pete Mulholland of Running Fitness magazine on Day 2 of the world masters meet in Linz, “only 12 hours of watching, interviewing, scavenging for results plus the occasional pit-stop for refreshments. I managed to catch up with some of yesterday’s 3000m competitors and discovered that there […]
March 16, 2006
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