Archive for June, 2015
Bergen, Obera smash own records at Pasadena Senior Games
Kathy Bergen raised her own pending W75 world record in the high jump Saturday at the Pasadena Senior Games at Caltech. Minutes later, Irene Obera lowered her own W80 American record in the 400. Kathy cleared 1.22 meters (4-0) on her first try before missing at 1.25 (4-1 1/4), barely missing once (saying she hit […]
June 6, 2015
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Britain’s Irie Hill raises own W45 WR in vault: just under 12 feet
“After a thorough warmup during the 2 1/2 hour drive from Bavaria to Freienbach, Switzerland, in our nonclimatised car, I enjoyed perfect conditions at the pituresque Chrummen stadium in lovely 32 degrees Celsius.” So begins Irie Hill’s description of her meet a few days ago in which she raised the W45 vault record to 3.65 […]
June 5, 2015
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Meet officials don’t grow on trees: Help sought at USATF nationals
The folks who make it possible for us to run, jump and throw need help themselves sometimes. USATF is calling for helpers at our Jacksonville nationals, and Texas meet director Seth Brower needs a hand at the dec-hep masters nationals. Seth writes that he’s hosting the USATF Masters Combined Event Nationals at UTSA on June […]
June 4, 2015
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Dieter Massin’s meet produced TWO women’s heptathlon WRs
I used to consider him the Darth Vader of masters track. But Germany’s Dieter Massin, former president of the Eurovets, puts on a great track meet. It was his Stendal meet that yielded Weia Reinboud’s W65 world record in the hep and high jump. Turns out a second heptathlon record was set as well — […]
June 3, 2015
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Weia Reinboud’s latest world records: W65 high jump, heptathlon
Throwing the 500-gram javelin, Weia Reinboud of Holland destroyed two heptathlon world records over the weekend, adding a WR of 1.40 (4-7) in her specialty the high jump for good measure. Competing at the Stendaler Hanse Cup multi-event meet in Stendal, Germany, Weia scored 6253 points — beating the listed record of 6211 using 400g […]
June 2, 2015
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Lyon entry deadline TODAY for Yanks; uniforms will be Beijing’s
Today (Monday) is the last day to enter Lyon worlds. USATF site says: “The official deadline is June 2, 2015 (11:59 pm UTC+1), or midnight in France; in the USA the cutoff time ranges from early morning to late afternoon on June 2 depending on time zone. The best approach is to register no later […]
June 1, 2015
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