Masters meet for first-responders: World Police and Fire Games
The 2011 World Police & Fire Games — with lots of masters categories — wrapped up Sept. 5 in New York City. I note at least one fellow traveler on the USATF masters circuit — Tony Ciccone of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority Police. See results here. A friend wrote some days back: “Apparently, Track & Field (was) at Icahn Stadium, Randalls Island. … The only event not being contested is the decathlon (canceled). Apparently, had the decathlon been run, they were going to use the IAAF Deca scoring tables with no age-grading. Looks like a lot of zeros would have been chalked up for the older age groups! Unless otherwise noted, men’s and women’s individual T&F events (were) offered in the following age categories: Open: 18-29, Senior (A): 30-34, Senior (B): 35-39, Master (A): 40-44, Master (B): 45-49, Grand Master (A): 50-54, Grand Master (B): 55-59, Grand Master (C): 60-64, Grand Master (D): 65-69, Grand Master (E): 70-74, Grand Master (F): 75+. WPFG T&F records are here.â€
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Ken: In glancing at the results, I noticed several top notch USATF throwers. Good friend Tim Edwards of Scottsdale, AZ, won the M45 shot put and discus over outstanding thrower Tim Shannon of Seattle. Don Bailey of Michigan, a recent regular at naionals, won the M50 discus and was second in the shot. A long time thrower in numerous events, the ever popular Jim Wetenhall won the M55 hammer and discus, was second in the shot, and third in the javelin. Mike
wow tonny Cicco was a good decathete back in the late 1970s we had a good few battles between me and hem good to hear hes still at it tho we did alot of the same things in life I gave up my lawinforcement days in 2004,good to hear hes still at it
Masters Ken Ellis and James Woosely competed there as well.
Double Gold Turbo!!!! Way to go brother-AZ Throwers do it again!!!
What a great idea for an event. Of course being a pole vaulter I searched the results for pole vault competitions and was impressed with number of competitors and the number of different countries they represented.
A local (Portland, Oregon) firefighter, Trevor Woods, vaulted 4.90m! He won the men’s open division over vaulters from Austria (4.40m), Romania (4.40m) and Australia (4.30m).
Thanks Ken for recognizing the World Police and Fire games. It was a very emotional time due to the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. I just glanced at the results for the first time today after competing there, and overall the boys and girls in blue are very competitive and would place well in Masters World competitions.
Next year will be the first United States Police and Fire Games which will be in San Diego in mid June. It will be contested every year at different sites just like Masters Nationals. The World Games are contested every two years and the next one is in Belfast in 2013.
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