Archive for February, 2013
Polish M45 runner suspended 2 years for doping at Eurovets
The Eurovets site and World Masters Athletics report: âPolish masters athlete Wieslaw Pietka has been found guilty of an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive during the European Veterans Championships Stadia in Zittau, Zgorzelec and Hradek on 23rd August 2012. In conformity with the disciplinary decision of 17th January 2013, the Polish Athletics Federation (PZLA) […]
February 24, 2013
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Landover indoor nationals entries have shot at breaking 1K mark
Jerry Bookin-Weiner, meet director of indoor nationals, writes: âLast night was the âon-timeâ deadline for entries to the USA Masters Indoor T&F Championships in Landover. As of this morning we have 937 people registered. That does not count the foreign athletes (we have 14 that I know of so far) or those entering relays only (we have […]
February 23, 2013
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Teams sought to race M70s, make possible a 4×800 WR at Armory
Want to rabbit a world record? Thatâs the request from Hal Lieberman in the Big Apple, who writes about an M70 attempt to crack the WR in the 4Ă800 relay on Tuesday, March 5. Hal is on the team that also includes the legendary Sid Howard, Norman Goluskin and Dom Rappazzo. He writes that this […]
February 22, 2013
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Age-group PRs for Canadian pair also equate to world records
Canadian superstars Christa Bortignon and pal Olga Kotelko opened their season with a pair of world records over the weekend in Kamloops, British Columbia. On Feb. 16, 93-year-old Olga upped her own high jump indoor WR to 0.77 (2-6 1/4) from 0.76 (2-6) and 76-year-old Christa went 7.54 (24-9) to beat her own triple jump […]
February 19, 2013
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Houston Elite M60 goes sub-4 in 4×4; Doc Patton claims M35 WR
All right. Forget about little Mary Cain and her latest high school record. At Saturdayâs Millrose Games, Houston Eliteâs Bill Collins, Horace Grant, Rick Riddle and Charles Allie averaged quarter-miles under 60 seconds in shattering the listed M60 world record in the indoor 4Ă400 with a sensational 3:59.09. Their ages and splits: Collins (62) opened […]
February 16, 2013
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Kathy Martin loses W55 indoor 1500 WR to Spain’s Aurora Perez
Aurora Perez, who holds the W50 world indoor record at 1500 meters, turned 55 in November and didnât waste time going after the W55 global best. She got it Feb. 3, says the Eurovets site, âin the city of Antequera (Spain) with a time of 4:58.13 â a tremendous race, a great record! Congratulations! See […]
February 12, 2013
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Sweden’s superstar high jumper sets M75 indoor Världsrekord
Old straddlers never die. They just break their own records. So we see from Swedish press reports (relayed by Anthony Treacher). According to this Swedish site, barefoot-lead-leg Carl-Erik Särndal lifted his own M75 world indoor record in the high jump to 1.52 meters (4-11 3/4) in late January. Hereâs the crappy Google translation: âIt was […]
February 12, 2013
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Brad Barton’s Magical Misery Tour in winning Boston masters mile
Brad Barton won the masters mile invitational at the week-ago New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston in 4:24.14, beating Hartshorne Mile victor Scott Weeks in the process. He fell short of his M45 indoor WR goal. But cut him some slack. He was sicker than sick. As he details in his amazing blog, he […]
February 9, 2013
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Snow is no deterrent to supertough tracksters in Chicagoland
M55 sprinter Jason Purcell, perhaps off-put by my reporting from 80-degree all-comers meets in San Diego, shared this photo of himself with Junior Olympian Jenna Spanswick, getting ready for the Wisconsin Indoor Track and Field Championships. âThis is how sprinters train in Chicago!â Jason wrote. âYouâve got to wear your spikes in this stuff!â I […]
February 4, 2013
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Swedish superstar nails M40 world indoor record in the long jump
Sunday in Stockholm, M40 pentathlon WR holder Mattias Sunneborn long-jumped 7.59 meters (24-11) at the indoor Raka SpĂĽret meet (which translates to âstraight trackâ). That beats the listed M40 world indoor record of 7.52 (24-8 1/4) by Britainâs Barrington Williams in 1996. Results of the Swedish meet are here. According to Wikipedia, âMattias Sunneborn (born […]
February 3, 2013
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