Archive for September, 2006

Where Are They Now Dept.: Stan Vegar is rowing

At the 1997 nationals in San Jose, one of the many studs who beat me in the M40 long hurdles was Stan Vegar, a fellow San Diegan. Better known as a decathlete (in which he once held the M40 American record), Stan vanished from the masters scene after that. Now I learn (from my Union-Tribune […]

September 23, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Yokohama meet organizers bar M50 Willie Banks

Willie Banks won’t break the M50 triple jump record in Yokohama after all. Becuz he ain’t jumpin’. He reports that the Japanese meet organizers won’t let him join the meet. But Willie writes, hopefully: “Oh well, I will have to do it in the U.S., probably in Santa buy ultram online Barbara.” He refers to […]

September 22, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Graeme Shirley loses election in San Diego USATF

Graeme Shirley, a lightning rod in USATF masters politics, was struck by a bolt from the blue Wednesday night at his USATF association’s annual elections (see photos) in San Diego. He was voted out of office. At the start of the meeting, he was association president. But he ran for secretary of the USATF San […]

September 21, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Kingdom issues hurdles challenge: Who’s No. 1?

Two-time Olympic champion and former WR man Roger Kingdom has set up a pair of hurdle races in April 2007 at the college where he coaches in Pennsylvania. His goal: to determine the best masters hurdler in the world. (It’s him, he contends.) Today he wrote me: “This email is to inform you that I’m […]

September 20, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Böker may be oldest female dope-cheat in history

World masters champion Hella Böker (sometimes Boeker) of Germany, a W65 thrower, has been suspended by the Leichtathletik federation (DLV) after the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide showed up in her urine sample at the European masters championships in Poznan, Poland. Normally, I’d call this evidence of Euros stopping at nothing to root out grannies with medical issues. […]

September 20, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Latest blast from past: 1979 Hanover WAVA results

Hanover, Germany, hosted the third World Masters Athletic Championships in late July and early August 1979. And thanks to the miracles of scanning, Adobe Acrobat and Canadian medalist Ed Whitlock (who sent me 90 photocopied pages), complete results are now online for the first time. I’ve posted two versions as usual: an image file and […]

September 20, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Zelezny makes final throw of his illustrious jav career

The wires report that Jan Zelezny has scratched from what would have been his final competition — Sunday’s meet at Yokohama, Japan, “as he is suffering from a painful Achilles.” The Agence France Presse story said: “The 40-year-old three-time Olympic and world champion said that he had decided to cancel his trip, to an event […]

September 19, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

More great photos from Poznan and Linz meets

M50 sprinter Tom Phillips of Britain — who has the bad luck of being in Dr. Stephen Peters’ age group and events — has found a winning niche nevertheless. He photographs fellow Brits at major meets. He writes: “I have just gone live with a very modest Web site to share my photographs from Linz […]

September 18, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Pasadena Senior Olympic icon Clentzos dies at 97

Pete Clentzos, a one-time masters athlete and longtime announcer (and meet director) at the Pasadena Senior Olympics near Los Angeles, died last week at age 97 and got some deserving obituary coverage, reports our friend Andy Hecker, who sent the attached news article.

September 17, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Allen Johnson clobbers M35 WR with cosmic 12.96

At 35, he’s still on top of the world. Jim Dunaway’s quickie report from today’s World Cup meet in Athens: “Allen Johnson could not have gotten a better start if he had been fired out of a cannon. The 35-year-old three-time world champion was visibly in front going over the first hurdle and stayed there […]

September 17, 2006   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed