Man, those Italians. While I was cherry-picking masters at Osaka, this Italian site was listing all the over-35 athletes entered at IAAF worlds. One thing I noticed: some possible world age-group records that WMA has overlooked. How many did they find? I count 37 men and 42 women — a total of 79 geezers at Nagai Stadium! (The Italian statman, Filippo Fasolato, didn’t spot the M45 or M50 marathoner from Israel, though.) Perhaps the most impressive record uncovered was Czech decathlete Tomáš Dvorák’s 8020 points on June 20, 2007. That crushed the listed WMA world record of 7778 by Germany’s Werner Von Moltke in 1972 — which may have been age-graded. Tomas’ marks were 11.09/-0.2 – 7.63/2.8 – 16.70 – 1.91 – 50.60 / 14.98/0.8 – 42.22 – 4.60 – 66.56 and 4:49.87. (Tomas once held the open WR.)

Another amazing M35 record was Dragutin Topic’s 2.27 (7-5 1/4) high jump on July 7, 2007 — at the age of 36! The listed M35 world record is 2.16 (7-1) by Russia’s Viktor Bolshov in 1974. (Meanwhile, the latest European records list an M35 WR of 2.26 by Dalton Grant of Britain in 2002. Go figure.)
Anyone spot any other records?

Here’s the list:

ISCRITTI OVER-35 AD OSAKA
M35 – 31
Mt. 100
10″15 2007 Nobuharu ASAHARA JPN 21-06-1972
10″57 2007 Sebastien GATTUSO MON 28-06-1971
Mt. 200
20″17 2007 Christopher WILLIAMS JAM 15-03-1972
21″24 Mphelave DLAMIN SUI 21-02-1971
Maratona
2:07’54” 2007 Jaouad GHARIB MAR 22-05-1972
2:07’56” 2007 Hendrick RAMAALA RSA 02-02-1972
2:07’59” 2006 Hicham CHATT MAR 18-02-1969
2:08’55” 2006 Luís JESUS POR 19-11-1968
2:10’47” 2007 William KIPLAGAT KEN 21-06-1972
2:10’12” 2007 José M. MARTINEZ ESP 22-10-1971
2:10’30” 2007 Migidio BOURIFA ITA 31-01-1969
2:11’25” 2006 Pavel LOSKUTOV EST 02-12-1969
2:11’36” 2007 Julio REY ESP 13-01-1972
2:14’19” 2007 José de SOUZA BRA 22-04-1971
– – – – – – Ulrich STEIDL GER 06-03-1972
110 ostacoli
13″39A 2007 Shaun BOWNES RSA 24-10-1970
400 ostacoli
48″52 2007 Danny McFARLANE JAM 14-02-1972
Salto in Alto
2,27 2007 Dragutin TOPIC SCG 12-03-1971
Salto con l’Asta
5,83 2007 Jeff HARTWIG USA 25-09-1967
Getto del Peso
21,04 2006 Gheorghe GUSET ROM 18-05-1968
Lancio del Disco
71,56 2007 Virgilijus ALEKNA LIT 13-02-1972
65,52 2006 Michael MOELLENBECK GER 12-12-1969
Lancio del Giavellotto
85,30 2006 Peter ESENWIN GER 07-12-1967
Marcia Km.20
1:18’56” 2007 Ilya MARKOV RUS 19-06-1972
1:21’29” 2005 Sérgio VIEIRA-GALDINO BRA 07-05-1969
1:23’38” 2007 Timothy SEAMAN USA 14-05-1972
1:24’03” Daniel GARCIA MEX 28-10-1971
Marcia Km.50
3:41’25” 2005 Aleksandr VOYEVODIN RUS 09-08-1970
3:42’48” 2006 Jesús Angel GARCIA ESP 17-10-1969
3:46’56” 2007 Santiago PEREZ ESP 15-01-1972
Decathlon
8.020 2007 Tomáš DVORAK CZE 11-05-1972
M40 – 4
Maratona
2:14’52” 2007 Antoni BERNADO’ AND 09-12-1966
Getto del Peso
20,34 2006 Dragan PERIC SCG 08-05-1964
Marcia Km.50
3:55’08” 2007 Tim BERRETT CAN 23-01-1965
3:57’06” 2003 Zoltán CZUKOR HUN 18-12-1962
M45 – 2
Maratona
2:14’42” 2005 Haile SATAIN ISR 11-04-1962
Marcia Km.50
3:57’44” 2007 Jorge COSTA POR 20-03-1961
W35 – 34
Mt. 100
11″18 2007 Chandra STURRUP BAH 12-09-1971
Mt. 800
2’01″28 2007 Agnes SAMARIA NAM 11-08-1972
Mt. 1.500
4’07″76 2007 Agnes SAMARIA NAM 11-08-1972
Mt. 5.000
15’15″77 2007 Nora Leticia ROCHA MEX 18-12-1967
Mt. 10.000
3′.56″61 2007 Nora Leticia ROCHA MEX 18-12-1967
Maratona
2:21’30” 2005 Constantina DITA ROM 23-01-1970
2:25’37” 2006 Nuta OLARU ROM 28-08-1970
2:25’05” 2006 Catherine NDEREBA KEN 21-07-1972
2:26’46” 2005 Luminita ZAITUC GER 09-10-1968
2:29’34” 2007 Lyubov MORGUNOVA RUS 14-01-1971
2:31’20” 2006 Kirsten MELKEVIK-OTTERBRU NOR 29-05-1970
2:31’57” 2007 Lioudmila KORTCHAGUINA CAN 26-07-1971
2:32’33” 2007 Alina GHERASIM ROM 10-11-1971
2:33’13” 2006 Tracey MORRIS GBR 09-09-1967
2:33’30” 2007 Lucilla ANDREUCCI ITA 19-12-1969
400 ostacoli
53″32 2005 Sandra GLOVER USA 30-12-1968
54″12 2006 Tatyana TERESHCHUK-ANTIPOVA UKR 11-10-1969
Salto in Alto
1,95 2007 Romary RIFKA-GONZALES MEX 23-12-1970
Salto in Lungo
6,63 2007 Jaqueline EDWARDS BAH 14-04-1971
Salto Triplo
14,58 2007 Yamile ALMADA CUB 14-08-1972
Getto del Peso
17,99 2007 Elisângela ADRIANO BRA 27-07-1972
Lancio del Disco
68,51 2006 Franka DIETZSCH GER 22-01-1968
65,60 2007 Nicoleta GRASU ROM 11-09-1971
62,85 2007 Joanna VISNIEWSKA POL 24-05-1972
61,29 2007 Olena ANTONOVA UKR 16-06-1972
61,09 2007 Elisângela ADRIANO BRA 27-07-1972
Lancio del Martello
72,36 2007 Olga KUZENKOVA RUS 04-10-1970
68,70 2007 Svetlana SUDAK TUR 21-03-1971
Lancio del Giavellotto
65,97 2006 Sonia BISSET CUB 01-04-1971
65,72 2007 Steffi NERIUS GER 01-07-1972
63,35 2007 Lada CHERNOVA RUS 01-01-1970
63,01 2004 Felicia TILEA-MOLDOVAN ROM 29-09-1967
60,28 2006 Sáva LIKA GRE 27-06-1970
Marcia Km.20
1:25’41” 2005 Olympiada IVANOVA RUS 05-05-1970
1:27’41” 2007 Kjersti TYSSE-PLAETZER NOR 18-01-1972
1:33’37” 2007 Svetlana TOSTAYA KAZ 09-08-1971
W40 – 7
Mt. 100
11″18 2006 Irina KHABAROVA RUS 18-03-1966
Maratona
2:28’53” 2007 Helena JAVORNIK SLO 26-03-1966
2:32’10” 2007 Edith MASAI KEN 04-04-1967
Lancio del Disco
64,87 2007 Irina YATCHENKO BLR 31-10-1965
Lancio del Giavellotto
61,96 2005 Laverne EVE BAH 16-06-1965
Marcia Km.20
1:33’28” 2005 Teresa VAILL USA 20-11-1962
1:37’07” 2006 Jolene MOORE USA 14-03-1966
W45 – 1
Mt. 100
11″41 2006 Merlene OTTEY SLO 10-05-1960
A cura di: Filippo Fasolato