Archive for March, 2006
They call this a ‘world’ championship? Welcome to Euro all-comers
This is getting old. Latest stats from Linz, Austria, site of the second World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships, indicate that the meet’s name is a blatant misnomer. The Eurovets news page sez: “36 European countries will take part in Linz 2nd WMA Indoor. All in all 3109 athletes will come to Austria, from Germany (leading […]
March 8, 2006
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Raschker, Baker make comebacks at national hep championships
Decathletes and heptathletes don’t do hibernation. In the winter, they just compete indoors. The USATF national masters indoor heptathlon championships — for men and women — were held last weekend at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and more than two dozen men (including two 81-year-olds) competed as well as seven women (with the oldest being […]
March 7, 2006
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Mike Powell aiming to put M40 jump record away for good
Mike Powell is feeling the hunger again. Not content to out-Beamon Beamon in the legendary 1991 duel with Carl Lewis, he now wants a taste of masters glory. He wants the M40 record in the long jump — the 2002 jump of 7.685 (25-2 1/2) by Aaron Sampson. So reports Dwight Stones, the jumper-turned-broadcaster.
March 7, 2006
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Biggest bargain in USATF Masters: rankings for $3,750
A few months back, I worried aloud about whether USATF Masters would have a rankings program this season — an online list of top marks in all age groups, indoors and out. As you’ve probably surmised, it’s back in business. Today I also discovered the value placed on these updated seasonal performance lists: $750 (Correction […]
March 6, 2006
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Happy birthday to marathon man Ed Whitlock!
Today the Man turns 75 — sub-3-hour marathoner Ed Whitlock of Canada. Breaking 3 at 75 would be ungodly, but I wouldn’t put it past the man from Milton. (He ran 2:58:40 at age 74.) That’s 26 consecutive 6:48 miles. Incredible. But I hope he returns to the track eventually. These M75 records are ripe […]
March 6, 2006
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Sprinter Down Under sets sights on dashing at 100
Supergeezers enchant me. By that I mean sprinters, jumpers and throwers who blow by 90 and set their sights on competing at 100. The latest to make his presence known is New Zealand’s Lewis Taylor, who was written up in the Wanganui Chronicle as part of its coverage of the New Zealand masters nationals. One […]
March 6, 2006
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Brits ready to rip at Linz world indoor meet
Pete Mulholland, my Hero Du Jour, sends along results from the British masters indoor championships, completed this weekend in Cardiff, Wales. Nearly 20 British records were set, and four world records, meaning the Germans won’t have the Linz world meet all to themselves. And watch out for the Yanks (whose masters nationals won’t come until […]
March 5, 2006
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Janvrin’s deca named World Masters Performance of 2005
Distance brings perspective. In this case, distance involves time as well as miles. Months after the masters award season, Pete Mulholland of the British magazine Running Fitness writes in April’s masters section: “Thoughts of the ‘panel’ turned towards what was the most impressive masters’ performance on a worldwide basis (in 2005), and it was difficult […]
March 5, 2006
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Nadine O’Connor makes smashing debut in W60 hurdles
Nadine O’Connor of Del Mar, California, has been setting sprint and vault records for several years. Now, at age 63, she’s looking for other challenges. Last Sunday at the USATF Mid-America Regional Indoor Championships, she tried hurdling. Not a bad debut — an American record 10.84 in the the 60-meter event. Oh and BTW, Nadine […]
March 4, 2006
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Marion Higgins, world’s oldest track fan, dies at age 112
Sad duty to report that Marion Bigelow Higgins — the oldest resident of California — has died at age 112. Last year, when she was 111, I took her picture twice in the stands at the USATF Western Regional Masters Championships at Carson, not far from her home in Seal Beach Leisure World (where my […]
March 3, 2006
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