Archive for June, 2007

Harvey, Shaheed named masters Athletes of the Year

Two record-setting milers have been named Athletes of the Year by USA Masters Track & Field. Forty-one-year-old Alisa Harvey of Manassas, Virginia, and 57-year-old Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena, California, are the first AoY picks under a new system in which all honorees will be saluted in person at the Athletes Banquet at the USATF national […]

June 4, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Sorensen claims huge world record at 1500 meters

Jim Sorensen is ready to go sub-4! Tom McGlynn of Focus-N-Fly running club shares details of one of the greatest masters runs of the decade — a sub-3:45 1500 by 40-year-old Jim: “On a night when the Oregon Track Club showed why Frank Gagliano is still the best middle-distance coach in the country, it was […]

June 4, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Bradstock qualifies for IAAF worlds trials at age 45

Roald Bradstock didn’t mope about losing his M45 world record in the javelin. He went out yesterday in Atlanta and upped his own American record to 72.02 (236-3) –just achieving the “A” standard for the USATF open nationals later this month in Indianapolis! (The “A” standard is 72.00.) The meet is the USA trials for […]

June 3, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Javelinists coming out of the woodwork this season

Is 2007 the Moment of the Miler? Mebbe. But a case can be made that in masters it’s also the Year of the Spear. Besides the latest Bradstock and Blank WRs, we see lots of evidence of folks giving the stick the old college chuck. Two recent examples: M60 Dick Dana in Michigan and M50 […]

June 3, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Dr. Track’s newsletter cures ignorance of our history

Don’t look now, but thrower John Godina is now a masters athlete. The Olympian and three-time world champ turned 35 on Thursday. I was reminded of this by an amazing new newsletter that’s being generated by Marc Grosso, “Dr. Track.” His email publication is called This Day in Athletics Weekly Newsletter. Marc sent a sample […]

June 2, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Germany posts its own masters seasonal rankings

Gerd Möhle of Lower Saxony, a German state, has posted 2007 outdoor rankings for age groups M30 to M80 and W30 to W65. They’re not for all of Germany, though. Still, it’s nice to see other countries sharing top marks in advance of the Riccione world meet in September. Any other nations doing the rankings […]

June 1, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Wayward discus from young thrower blamed in tragedy

Seth Brower, director of the Texas meet where M70 thrower Chaunce Cook suffered fatal injuries from an errant discus, reports: “As this was a USATF-sanctioned event, I have been advised that I can only comment on what I witnessed firsthand. I was officiating at the other discus field when I heard the commotion. I turned […]

June 1, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments