Archive for July, 2008

Olympic champion Thane Baker could be your starter

Wayne Bennett down in Texas writes about the Texas Masters Championships set for July 26 at Coppell High School, northwest of Dallas. “We think we run a really good meet,” says Wayne, an M70 sprint star. “Field events start at 9 a.m. and running events start at 6 p.m. Entry form is available under schedule […]

July 9, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Britain’s Moscrop lowers own WR in M50 400 hurdles

Yowza! This record might last 50 years, or until Edwin Moses puts on spikes again. World champion Howard Moscrop of Britain has chopped his own M50 world record in the 400-meter hurdles to an ungodly 56.56 at the British Masters Championships at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham — running solo and alternating lead legs in the latter […]

July 8, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

W70 steeplechase, W75 throw WRs fall at Brit nationals

By just a second, Britain’s Anne Martin lowered her own listed world record in the 2,000-meter steeplechase on Sunday, clocking a superb 10.49.22 at the British Masters Championships in Birmingham. Anne’s previous W70 best was 10:50.35, apparently at the same track. Complete results of the British masters nationals are posted here. Sprinter/photographer Tom Phillips notes: […]

July 7, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Everad Samuels shatters M50 world record for 200m

Mike Travers reports this stunning performance: “Everad Samuels of Boston … has broken the M50 200M World record of 22.58 set by Dr. Stephen Peters (of Britain at the Puerto Rico world masters meet in 2003). Everad’s record time of 22.53 was set Saturday, July 5, at the USATF East Region Open and Club Track […]

July 7, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Canadian records galore at B.C. masters championships

Doug Smith in Canada reports 12 Canadian masters age-group records were set at the British Columbia masters championships recently in Surrey. Harold Morioka passed along the results to Doug, in Ontario, even though one of his own M55 sprint records was trumped (at another meet). And on an unrelated note here’s a corrected link to […]

July 5, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Roald Bradstock calls it a career after beating 8 at Trials

At 46, Roald Bradstock is hanging up his multi-colored javelins and many delightful outfits. After beating eight kids in the javelin prelims at Eugene today (including American record holder Breaux Greer), he confirmed that this was his last track meet. He fell only 5 feet short of making Sunday’s finals. Also FYI: A photo gallery […]

July 4, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Local paper retells story of M45 Tony Young, miler son

Jon Naito of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has written this nice little story on masters mile star Tony Young and his family, especially budding high school mile prodigy Mack Young. I also have it on good authority that Tony, who runs in the masters 3000 exhibition at the Olympic Trials tonight, will soon be the subject […]

July 3, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Roald Bradstock gets word: He’ll throw in Olympic Trials!

At 46, Roald is the oldest male entrant in Eugene. Roald Bradstock got the news a little after 10 a.m. today: USATF’s Status of Entries page for the Olympic Trials lists him as “qualified/declared” for Friday’s men’s javelin preliminaries. At age 46, Roald thus becomes the oldest man in the field — and perhaps the […]

July 2, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

‘T.R.A.C.K. Live!’ contract: Spill the beans, pay $300,000

A member of the “T.R.A.C.K. Live!” reality show’s athlete contingent wrote fellow entrants: “Everyone – I don’t know what else to do . . . I responded to the email Julia sent out on 6/23 for contestants wanting to return on 7/7. She said there would be a confidentiality agreement to sign before they would […]

July 1, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments