Archive for March, 2017
Sally Gibbs, Loris Reed, Liz Wilson runs wild at Kiwi nationals
Loris Reed is 69, Liz Wilson is 54 and Sally Gibbs is 53. Among them, they competed in at least 15 events at the New Zealand masters outdoor nationals over the weekend. (See results here.) Most of their races were in the 90-plus age-graded persentage. Great stuff (detailed below). Great hurdle marks spotted include M65 […]
March 6, 2017
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Italian’s M40 triple jump WR is almost beyond Beamonesque: 56-2
Two masters-age athletes competed in open championships Sunday — both taking second to men eight years younger. In Albuquerque, M50 Khalid Mulazim was beating Southwest Sprinters TC teammate Gabriel Fuzat at the 200, but lost to Gabriel in the 400 exhibition at the USA Indoor Nationals, 51.58 to 52.02. But Khalid’s mark beat Mike Sullivan’s […]
March 5, 2017
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Aussie’s analysis of Sacto no-show rates is wakeup call to WMA
Viddy Jermacans is an M65 Aussie multi-eventer who’s competed in all WMA outdoor worlds since 2007 Riccione as well as several indoor worlds since 2006 Linz. He’s also handy at math. Recently he sent me a detailed event-by-event analysis of 2011 Sacramento worlds — how many entered, how many started, how many scratched. It’s eye-opening. […]
March 4, 2017
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Kathy Martin goes sub-6 in mile at age 65, another indoor WR!
With a last lap of 40.2, Kathy Martin rewrote the mile record books again at the Armory in New York City. Results from Thursday Night at the Races show Kathy clocked 5:51.74 — lowering her recent ABQ nationals WR of 6:01.46. The listed W65 world record is 6:05.85 by Britain’s Ros Tabor. So now Kathy […]
March 3, 2017
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Kiwi masters nationals, pound for pound, 70 times bigger than U.S.
New Zealand media are reporting the start of their 3-day masters outdoor nationals Friday. But don’t snicker when story says: “More than 220 competitors will line up at the New Zealand Masters Athletics Track and Field Championships which is being staged in Nelson for the first time this weekend. The championships will feature athletes from […]
March 2, 2017
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India’s USATF is taking control of masters track from rival groups
An otherwise dull story out of India suggests that the country’s version of USATF is seizing control of masters track from several rival organizing bodies. Over the years, I’ve written about the masters dysfunction in that country of 1.3 billion. At least two groups claimed to be WMA affiliates — MAFI and VAFI. MAFI had […]
March 1, 2017
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