Archive for March, 2008

Oh, Momma! Mainer is competing for two at worlds

I’ve seen a lot of recent moms competing in masters track. But here’s a first. W40 multi-eventer Susan Wiemer yesterday hopped a plane for France with more on board than spikes and implements, reports Steve Solloway of the Portand Press Herald in Maine. Steve writes: “As she trained for next week’s World Masters Athletics Indoor […]

March 14, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Jamaican masters body urges retired athletes to re-up

Here’s a thought. This story shows how USATF can increase the ranks of masters athletes: Just ask. In the Jamaica Observer, Paul Burrowes writes: “Buoyed by the presence of world masters champions Val Barnwell of the United States and Jamaican Chris Grant, the Jamaican Masters Athletic Association (JMAA) has been given a fresh lease on […]

March 13, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Photogs have you covered at Clermont-Ferrand worlds

One is pointing toward the M50 sprints at worlds. The other is focusing on her 40th birthday in 2009. So what do Britons Tom Phillips and Lesley Richardson have in common (besides nationality)? They’re both toting cameras to Clermont-Ferrand, France, and the 3rd World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships. The six-day meet starts Monday. Lesley writes: […]

March 12, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Nolan Shaheed, Phil Raschker are Athletes of Year

The USATF Masters T&F Awards Committee today named Nolan Shaheed, 58, and Phil Raschker, 61, its 2007 Masters Track & Field Athletes of the Year. Under a new awards process that recognizes athletes for the previous calendar year, the 23-member committee led by Dave Clingan of Oregon voted this month on several dozen nominees. There’s […]

March 11, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Masters meet smack dab in the middle of the Trials?

Yesterday on a Track & Field News message board, Olympic Trials meet director Tom Jordan posted this revelation: “There will be all-comers meets on the two ‘rest’ days, July 1 & 2. July 1 will be for kids; July 2nd for teens and up. Very limited slate of running events; no field events. It’s mostly […]

March 11, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Colorado USATF brass get major slapdown in verdict

Four months ago, we summarized a 17-page grievance filed against the youth-centric leadership of the USATF Colorado Association. Today the verdict was made public. As far as I can tell from this decision of the hearing panel (which included masters track enchilada Rex Harvey), the complaining party won on all counts. Money will change hands […]

March 10, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Magill lowers 5K record, Young seizes 3000 best

Pete Magill picks his races carefully. So does fellow M45 distance star Tony Young. Over the weekend, racing 1,000 miles apart, they produced the same result: age-group records. A week after lowering his own outdoor 3000 AR, Pete, 46, ran 5,000 meters against the kiddies at the Ben Brown Invitational at Mt. San Antonio College […]

March 10, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Horace Grant on Nolan Shaheed’s heels in SISU 800

Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena finally has some M55 competition. Yesterday at the SISU Foundation 800 Meter Challenge Race at Mesa Community College, part of the Grand Canyon State Games, Nolan, 58, had to work to hold off Horace Grant of Houston. In doing so, 2:07.48 to 2:07.77, Nolan collected the first prize of $500 for […]

March 9, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Allen Johnson takes silver at IAAF worlds at age 37!

Allen Johnson’s bid to win Olympic medals 12 years apart is on track. AJ, the 1996 Atlanta champion, took second to Athens champ and world record holder Xiang Liu of China today in the 60-meter hurdles at the IAAF worlds in Valencia, Spain. Allen beat Liu out of the blocks but couldn’t hold him off. […]

March 9, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

McBarnette raises M50 American indoor record again

Masters mole Keith Mathis reports another M50 indoor high jump record by Bruce McBarnette. “At the Mid-Atlantic USATF 2008 Open and Masters Indoor Championship meet (Saturday) at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa., Bruce . . . jumped 1.93 (6-4) to break his own American Record of 1.92. Attached is a picture at the end of the […]

March 9, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments