Archive for September, 2013

O Boy! Vancouver hosting regional masters games in August 2014

Jimson Lee, our Canadian masters sprinter friend, is reporting that Vancouver, British Columbia, will host a regional masters games in 2014. Similar to the European Masters Games, it’s under the umbrella of the International Masters Games Association, whose Turin meet this summer will be followed by one in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2017. The Vancouver […]

September 29, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Track season not over until I say it is: San Diego meet is Dec. 7

Rick Reaser is meet director of the open Red-Black Meet at San Diego State University. He writes of the Saturday, December 3, event: “It is already sanctioned by USATF SD-I. Our FAT timer, Jim Waters, has been reserved. This year, we are providing a team option. And we should have some other universities coming which […]

September 29, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Berra, Jasper top August pentathlon as best all-around runners

If you pit sprinters vs. distance runners vs. middle-distance racers, which group has the best all-around athletes? Track doesn’t have a Hot Stove League, but it does have a way of settling hypotheticals: the Greater Philadelphia Runners Pentathlon. The fourth annual event was held Aug. 18 at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Meet director […]

September 27, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Masters (track) and Johnson? Endurance athletes sought for study

Colin O’Leary, a graduate student at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, writes that he and his adviser, Anthony Hackney, are “launching a study that is examining the effects of exercise training on sexual libido in adult males. To assess whether a full research study is needed to answer this question, I am doing a […]

September 26, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Quiz the candidates for WMA prez: Rex Harvey vs. Stan Perkins

Sometime around noon local time Oct. 23 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, we should know who will serve as president of World Masters Athletics through 2017. Will it be incumbent Stan Perkins, whose term would include 2016 worlds in his native Australia (Perth)? Or will it be challenger Rex Harvey, the Ohioan who lost by a […]

September 25, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Seth Brower’s Texas vs. World meet in October is masters-friendly

Superstar meet director Seth Brower — the force behind dozens of meets — is promoting one Oct. 5-6 worth noting. Called Texas vs. The World Challenge, the event will benefit charities KidSight and the Wounded Warrior Project. It includes a decathlon (one for women, too) and a throws pentathlon. See the schedule. Seth, brother of […]

September 25, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Masters newbie Torbert ups M60 goal after setting American record

When I first heard of the M60 American shot put record by Quenton Torbert, I said: “Quenton who?” Turns out he’s better known as Doug. But he’s also a rookie to masters track, starting just after his 2011 retirement from teaching and coaching. So he truly is an out-of-the-woodwork story. But after breaking a Joe […]

September 17, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  14 Comments

6 world records at British masters nationals: 3 by Evaun Williams

Athletics Weekly in the UK is reporting six world age-group records set this weekend at the British Masters Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, including five by W80 Rosemary Chrimes and W75 Evaun Williams. AW, which takes geezer track seriously (unlike Track & Field News), says: “Chrimes, the 1970 Commonwealth Games discus champion who also […]

September 15, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments

Carmelo Rado adds M80 discus WR to collection, along with pent

A story posted before the World Masters Games in Turin was headlined: CARMELO RADO, A MAN WHO SETS A RECORD EVERY TIME HE THROWS. But he set no bests in Italy. Didn’t compete. But a month after turning 80 in August, there he goes again. “The Italian Rado Carmelo … set two world records in […]

September 13, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Legendary Joe Keshmiri’s M60 shot record falls to Quenton Torbert

In my rush to celebrate Laurie Rugenstein’s mile world record (unlikely to be ratified), I overlooked another 60-something’s record: Quenton Torbert threw the 5-kilo shot 16.67 meters (54-8 1/4). The mark at the Mid-America USATF regional meet in Fort Collins, Colorado, beat the listed M60 American record of 16.46 (54-0) by the late throwing legend […]

September 12, 2013   Posted in: Uncategorized  6 Comments