Record holders pad their age-group PRs in vault, shot

Nadine O’Connor and Bud Held generally take turns setting records. Yesterday at the San Diego-Imperial USATF Open Championships at San Diego State University, the couple from Del Mar, California, both set world age-group records — improving their own marks in the pole vault. M75 Bud went 3.00 (9-10) and W60 Nadine cleared 3.11 (10-2 1/2) to break their previous records by an inch or so. Bud writes: “Nadine’s 3.11 is 116.48% on the new 2006 Age-Graded Tables. We think it might be the best percentage mark of any age group so far for this year. Mine is a measly 103.79%.”


A day earlier — Saturday — M70 Gerald O. Vaughn broke his own world age-group record in the shot with a toss of 15.27 (50-1 1/4) at the Florida Classic meet in Clermont, Florida. In March, Gerald threw 15.39 (50-6) indoors. So the outdoor record with the 6.6-pound shot was not unexpected.
In 2005, Gerald threw the listed M70 record of 14.91 (48-11) at Charlotte, North Carolina. The shot in the M70 group is 4 kilograms — or about 8.8 pounds.

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  3. Ossmann, Brown win shot, vault exhibitions at Albuquerque meet
  4. More world records for golden 65-69 group: men’s shot, 4×4
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May 29, 2006