Archive for April, 2008
M45 Gault hits 11.04 at UCLA; W40 Arlin Genet 4:24 1500
Yesterday’s Rafer Johnson/JJK meet at UCLA saw some amazing masters marks, including a legal 11.04 for 100 meters by Willie Gault, apparently not moping about the shutdown of his Aloha Airlines. And Aeron Arlin Genet said aloha to her recent W40 best in the 1500 by clocking 4:24.06 — a potential American age-group record.
April 13, 2008
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Bill Collins clocks a windy 11.40 in outdoor season opener
Bill Collins was world-class in the 1970s, and at age 57 continues to record phenomenal times. Yesterday in his first outdoor race of the year — in Houston at a Texas Southern University quadrangular meet — Bill ran the 100 meters in a windy 11.40 seconds. That’s a tenth under his own M55 world age-group […]
April 13, 2008
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Paul Babits vaulting for 30th time in Sea Ray Relays
Stormy and windy weather apparently halted the men’s pole vault yesterday at the Sea Ray Relays in Tennessee — but Paul Babits was there as usual. Paul, the 47-year-old vaulter flirting with 17 feet, “competed in his 30th Sea Ray pole vault,” according to the school’s Web site. “He won in 1989 and ’90. … […]
April 12, 2008
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‘Chunk’ Simmons dies at 84; Olympian, masters thrower
Floyd Simmons Floyd “Chunk” Simmons of Charlotte, North Carolina, died earlier this month, and a good obituary appeared in his local paper. The story focused on his two Olympic bronzes in the deca, but didn’t really mention his masters track involvement. He was a thrower who competed as recently as 2005, and he was among […]
April 11, 2008
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Two monster Clermont-Ferrand photo galleries debut
Around 6,000 photos of the 3rd World Masters Indoor Athletic Championships at Clermont-Ferrand, France, have been posted by French photog Marin Garrigues. And Canadian shooter Steve Burger has posted hundreds more shots on his own gallery. In both cases, the shots are basically dumped into a database with little cropping for dramatic effect. Marin apparently […]
April 10, 2008
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Raschker fans at Sullivan Awards: ‘You should have won’
Georgia accountant Phil Raschker is probably chin-deep in tax work this week, but she still found time to send me a report on her recent trip to New York City and the AAU Sullivan Awards ceremony at the NYAC. She betrays a little disappointment in not winning the big prize in her second shot as […]
April 10, 2008
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Modesto Relays invites masters to race HSI in 4×100
Joy Upshaw-Margerum up in the San Francisco Bay Area sends word that the Modesto Relays (a few hours inland) will hold a masters 100-meter dash in addition to the previously announced 110 hurdles race. But also remarkable is a promise that a good masters 4Ă—100 relay team (or two) could be lining up in the […]
April 10, 2008
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Sprint stud Roger Pierce makes alma mater’s Hall of Fame
Roger Pierce has been on my radar for years, but I haven’t given him the attention he deserves. Now his local paper has done the work for me, thank goodness, with this great summary of his track career. His latest honor is induction into Northeastern University’s sports Hall of Fame. I love where his bio […]
April 9, 2008
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Close finish among great Boston shots by Jeremiah
Another set of photos from Boston nationals is online — mostly of sprinters. These are several dozen shots by Lloyd Jeremiah, an M50 hurdler from Washington, D.C. My favorite shot shows Kathy Bergen of Southern California battling Kathy Jager of Arizona in the W60/65 60-meter dash. Kathy won.
April 8, 2008
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John Hinton goes sub-4 again in 1500 at Duke Invite
John Hinton, competing against collegians, ran the 1500 in 3:57.98 Friday at the Duke Asics Invitational in Durham, North Carolina. He represented Carrboro Athletics Club, whose Jason Jabaut, ran the fastest time (3:48.96). John turns 46 on May 1 and should eventually challenge his own M45 world record of 3:56.39, set at Durham in 2007. […]
April 8, 2008
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