USATF posts splits for USA relays at Lahti world masters meet
Now this is service! Marilyn Mitchell prepared several pages of Team USA results from Lahti worlds, and USATF posted relay splits in the 4×100 and 4×400. As mentioned before, every U.S. foursome at Lahti came away with hardware. No finish below third! (Total of 13 medals — seven gold, three silver and three bronze.) U.S. team manager Phil Greenwald says he took the splits from the stands, about 40 meters short of the finish line. He admits the 4x1s were hard to get. But they look pretty accurate (except for mine, which felt a second slower). Marilyn also took some shots of me anchoring the mighty USA M55 4×1 to bronze. See this gallery.
W40 bronze 4×4: Maryline Roux, Lorraine Jasper, Shemayne Williams and Lisa Valle
But when I had my medal engraved last week, they listed the leadoff leg as Jim Brown, instead of the “Jim Broun” I submitted in a printout. No biggie. Having the late King of Soul on our team is fine by me. (And the shop owner didn’t charge me. But I gave her a $10 tip for professional attitude.)
I had an appointment yesterday with my longtime dentist Ron Petrillo, and he was so jazzed by the medal, he draped it around his neck and paraded around to his office staff. He hopes to compete as an M60 wrestler soon.
Here are splits provided to USATF from USA teams at Lahti:
Ron Potocnik (12.1)
Mike Godbout (10.5)
Eric Prince (11.1)
Robert Thomas (10.2)
M40
Silver
4x100m
43.93
Darnell Gatling (11.8)
Marcus Shute (10.9)
Eric Merriweather (11.3)
David Ashford (11.3)
M45
Gold
4x100m
45.22
Val Barnwell (55.2) (wrong splits given, obviously)
James Chinn (54.2)
Kenneth Thomas (54.8)
Jeff Lindsay (54.0)
M50
Gold
4x100m
45.82
(Actually, the order was James Chinn, Ben James, Kenneth Thomas, Val Barnwell)
James Broun (13.8)
Ricky Easley (12.2)
Thaddeus Wilson (11.3)
Kenneth Stone (13.5)
M55
Bronze
4x100m
50.96
Maurelhena Walles (13.6)
Charmaine Roberts (12.0)
Lisa Daley (12.6)
Latrica Dendy (10.8)
W35
Gold
4x100m
49.04
Joy Upshaw-Margerum (13.7)
Martha Mendenhall (11.7)
Sarah Lawson (13.6)
Shemayne Williams (12.4)
W45
Bronze
4x100m
51.87
Jean Daprano (21.4)
Mary Harada (24.5)
Sumi Onodera-Leonard (20.5)
Becky Sisley (16.3)
W70
Silver
4x100m
1:22.92Eric Prince (51.0)
Neil Fitzgerald (50.1)
Ron Potocnik (51.4)
Robert Thomas (50.7)
M40
Gold
4x400m
3:23.44Eric Merriweather (58.8)
Darnell Gatling (51.8)
William Marshall (56.3)
Marcus Shute (50.2)
M45
Silver
4x400m
3:36.71Val Barnwell (55.2)
James Chinn (54.2)
Kenneth Thomas (54.8)
Jeff Lindsay (54.0)
M50
Gold
4x400m
3:38.16
Maurelhena Walles (59.2)
Charmaine Roberts (59.0)
Lisa Daley (59.0)
Latrica Dendy (56.3)
W35
Gold
4x400m
3:53.80
Loraine Jasper (64.1)
Shemayne Williams (63.5)
Maryline Roux (62.8)
Lisa Valle (62.3)
W40
Bronze
4x400m
7:15.40Sumi Onodera-Leonard (2:05.4)
Mary Harada (1:51.8)
Becky Sisley (1:47.4)
Jean Daprano (1:30.8)
W70
Gold
4x400m
4:12.67
7 Responses
except the splits are incorrect
Mike Godbout was left off USATF list for medal winners, He won the Gold in the M40 110 Hurdles with a time of 14.32 seconds.
They also left out Jim Broun in the M55 100 Hurdles. Jim won a Bronze medal with a time of 16.17 seconds.
Appreciate the info, but I know my splits are off on the 4×100 for sure. No way I ran a 12.4. not in this lifetime. But glad I came home with some hardware!
I’m also told that Gary Snyder helped with getting splits. Full-service masters chair!
There is no way possible that Eric Merriweather David Ashford had the same split and that Darnell had a slower time than both of us. I dont think so I think the number are not distributed correctly. Also, the consistency of time would have been Eric, Darnell and Marcus. So I disagree with whoever posted these times. Not correct at all.
Thanks. Also watch the video again
I rarely read the blogs, but when splits are incorrect, then why post non-sense. I agree with Eric Merriweather. I walked down lead off runners that had faster splits than posted. Even the video has a better split for all of us posted on youtube. But I’m not the manager.
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