Ed Whitlock makes M75 debut a smashing one
Marathon man Ed Whitlock of Milton, Ontario, has been nursing a head cold in recent weeks. No big deal. On March 6, he turned 75. Yesterday he celebrated his new age group by demolishing that group’s world indoor record for 3,000 meters by 44 seconds, clocking 11:28.28 at the Ontario Masters Indoor Championships, whose results are now posted. The old record was 12:12.72 by Great Britain’s James Todd in 1997. Canadian photographer Doug Smith writes: “As well, (Ed) spent some time before his race helping us set up the hurdles on the straight! That’s like Gretzky driving the Zamboni before the 7th game of the Stanley Cup Finals.â€
Ed ran back-to-back 6-minute miles, basically. To put that in perspective, consider that the listed M75 world indoor record for the mile (by countryman Earl Fee) is 5:41.95.
Doug also shares a list of Canadian indoor records set yesterday:
200m W50 Del Grande, Karla 26.82
M60 Powell, Tony 26.45
800m M35 Hackshaw, Derek 1:59.14
3000m W70 Turner, Molly 14:51.1h
High Jump W50 Mallia, Maria 1.35m TIE
Pole Vault W65 Riegel, Jutta 2.00m
Triple Jump M40 Crawford, Todd 12.77m (27 years old !!!)
WeightThrow M50 Graczyk, Jan 18.10m
M70 Sundin, Alf 17.63m
Further, Doug wrote:
‘John DeFinney missed Ed’s M55 1500m record by a second, and Jerry Kooymans missed the M50 1500m record by 3 seconds. Kerry Smith missed the M50 60m by 1/100th!â€
Great meet, great results — and another great record by Mr. Whitlock, shown here in his record run:
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W70 Results Finals
1 Horne, Jean W73 Unattached 3:18.76
if that is correct then Jean Horne has set a new world indoor W 70 800m record. The current record according to the last list I have seen is 3:20 set by Suzi McLoud in Boston in 2004.
Congratulations to Jeane Horne –
Hi Mary.
Jean has run 3:14 in 2004 and 3:12 in 2003, so I didn’t even list it as a CAN record. These must be in WR limbo.
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