Archive for October, 2015

Staking a claim: Jen Freemas has W35 American decathlon record

Jen Freemas of the San Francisco Coyotes competed in the same Texas meet where Dave Burton claimed an M45 American record in the decathlon. Turns out her decathlon mark is being reviewed for an AR as well. She’s 36, so she could be the W35 record-holder, according to Jeff Brower’s Google Doc. The women’s dec […]

October 11, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Charles Eugster sets M95 WR in 400 at European Masters Games

Can anyone read figures in French? The European Masters Games track meet ended a couple days ago in Nice, France. Results are here. But after I collated daily results PDFs (because the meet site is a miserable mess), I poked around for familiar names and found retired dentist Charles Eugster, whose title of “World’s Fittest […]

October 10, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Oceania Masters championships ending in remote Cook Islands

Rarotonga is the most populous of the Cook Islands, with a little over 10,000 souls. Saturday is the final day of the five-day Oceania Masters Athletics Championships (a WMA regional meet) in Rarotonga and a Kiwi newspaper had the gall to gripe about the turnout. Well, what do you expect? The Cook Islands are not […]

October 9, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Introducing Dave Burton, your new M45 decathlon record-holder

Dave Burton isn’t new to the dec, it turns out. After posting news of how he broke Rex Harvey’s 24-year-old American record, I sought more details. He graciously responded. He ran at CSU Northridge as a freshman and sophomore and then CSU Chico as a junior, and then trained at the University of Texas under […]

October 8, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Dave Burton breaks Rex Harvey’s ancient M45 dec American record

Last year at Wake Forest nationals, David Burton of Morro Bay, California, won four events at age 44 — the 110 hurdles in 15.86, pole vault at 4.27 (14-0), javelin at 45.25 (148-5) and long jump at 5.92 (19-5). You thinking what I’m thinking? Yup, he’s a decathlon beast. He turned 45 last October and […]

October 7, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Distance giant Miki Gorman dies at 80; Hall of Famer, world champ

Miki Gorman, a member of the inaugural 1996 Class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, died Sept. 19 in Bellingham, Washington, her daughter reported Tuesday in a blog post. She was 80. Miki is being remembered as a pioneering female marathoner — and world-record holder. But she also was a giant on the track, […]

October 6, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

What does NCCWMA region do? How does Sandy Pashkin lead?

Oregon’s Sandy Pashkin was elected president of the North and Central America & Caribbean WMA Region the morning of Aug. 10, 2012, in Room 326, Hazen Hall, at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. A WMA regional meet was being held there. “There were approximately twenty voting members present, along with a handful […]

October 5, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

Time for masters throwers to recruit stars from Scottish Games?

W40 Beth Burton is a former track All-American at Cal State Northridge and has coached at Chico State and a high school. But she doesn’t appear to be throwing her old discus and shot. Instead she heaves trees and rocks. That’s the deal for the Scottish Highland Games, where she recently won a world title […]

October 4, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments

Don Pellmann may be oldest to appear in SI’s Faces in the Crowd

Michelle Xiao was a Nebraska state Junior Olympic 200-meter hurdles champion who attended my archrival high school in Omaha (Westside). I went to Burke my senior year. Now she’s a soccer midfielder as a Stanford freshman. But she’ll never forget this week’s honor — appearing next to 100-year-old Don Pellmann in Faces in the Crowd. […]

October 3, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Anselm LeBourne spills the beans on his track career in video Q&A

“We were so poor, we dropped the OR. Just po … but we had three square meals,” M55 WR-man Anselm LeBourne recalls about growing up in Trinidad and Tobago. In a 30-minute interview posted Friday, he talks about stretching, being a vegetarian and his first 5K race, which he easily won. “When they finished, they […]

October 2, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  5 Comments