Archive for February, 2007
M35 Laynes sprints at Saskatoon after 60m record
Gail Devers has company as an impressive masters sprinter on Friday. Up at the Knights of Columbus Saskatchewan Indoor Games in Saskatoon, 36-year-old Jeff Laynes competed in the 50-meter dash. Under the headline “Quick Nic / Macrozonaris gives another dashing performance at Games,” Dustin Munroe of the StarPhoenix newspaper shares an interesting story about the […]
February 3, 2007
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Hartwig at Millrose — almost gets credit for 19-footer!
Jeff Hartwig, who turns 40 in September, reportedly topped 19-0 1/4 at the Millrose Games yesterday but steadied the bar on the way down, and thus was called for illegal “Volzing.” So the clearance was canceled. But oh my! Not bad for ol’ Jeff. Frank Litsky’s story in The New York Times further reported: “Hartwig’s […]
February 3, 2007
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Gail Devers a Force at Forty, wins Millrose 60 hurdles
Forty-year-old Gail Devers, in lane 4 between an Olympic champion and a world champion, showed she’s the still the best. Five minutes ago at the Millrose Games, she won the Visa women’s 60-meter hurdles in 7.86 seconds. They raced over 33-inch hurdles, not the 30-inch masters hurdles, so technically it’s not a masters record. (But […]
February 2, 2007
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Shore AC women’s relay missing from Millrose Games
A spot was empty in the women’s 4Ă—4 at tonight’s 100th Millrose Games. New Jersey’s Shore Athletic Club was, as promised, not allowed to compete. Results show the winners as Athena Track Club. The Nike Central Park Track Club, which included Mary Rosado, the coordinator of the masters events at this meet, took third, but […]
February 2, 2007
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Roger Kingdom invites non-hurdlers to masters meet
Four months ago, I noted Roger Kingdom’s challenge to post-40 hurdlers: Let’s see who’s the greatest masters timber topper. Today I learned that he’s added some other masters events to his April 21 meet in Pennsylvania, where he coaches the CUP track team. Roger writes of the hurdle showdown: “Yes! It’s still on. However, I […]
February 1, 2007
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World’s fastest 95-year-old gets moment in video sun
In June 2005, the wires were agog about a Japanese geezersprinter named Kozo Haraguchi. He ran 100 meters in 22.04 seconds — a world age-group record by 2 seconds! (And in the rain!) Now I’ve finally seen the performance. He ran the race solo (as this video shows). This happens at some meets where officials […]
February 1, 2007
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