Daprano is USATF Athlete of Week; WRs fall in London, Germany

Nancy Hitchmough photo by Tom Phillips

Past week has been lousy with records and reports thereof. Latest is by W70 Marie-Louise Michelsohn, adding the indoor 400 American record to her long list — running 80.16 Friday at the Armory track in New York. She nipped the year-old AR of 80.57 by Jeanne Daprano. But Jeanne won’t mind sharing the glory. As I predicted, she was named USATF Athlete of the Week three days ago (while I was napping). Marie-Louise also ran a 3:06.57 in the 800 afterward, short of her own AR of 3:04 earlier this season. At British masters indoor nationals, Nancy Hitchmough set W60 world marks for 1500 (5:17.93) on March 17 and returned next day to set a new 800 WR too (2:37.67). (Pat Gallagher of Britain holds the listed WRs of 2:40.28 and 5:22.50.) Arthur Thompson set a WR in the M75 3K track walk. Results are here. And at German indoor nationals (see results here), we hear of four or five world records. See translation below. And M40 Jeff Laynes ran a 10.76 100 in the cold rain Saturday at the Johnny Mathis Invitational in San Francisco. (Aaron Thigpen is the best American at 10.60.) Jeff also clocked 22.54 in the deuce. (See all results here.)

Here’s a translated report on German masters indoor nationals:

In the W70 class was another world record: Ursula Stelling (SC Victoria Hamburg) crossed 1.30 meters in the first round and improved the previous one brand from Kathy Bergen (USA) from 2010 by one centimeter.

Their own, until 22 January 2012 achieved a world record over 3,000 meters of the W75 class improved Elfriede Hodapp (LG Ortenau North) is equal to more than eight seconds from now on 14:44,11 14:35,58 minutes.

In the high jump class F50-Freyer drew Helga Krause (Marburg SF blue-yellow) is equal to Weia Reinboud. The Dutch had reached 1.55 meters in 2001. Helga Freyer-Krause is now with the same level also in the world-record list.

Thomas Straub in first attempt

In the very first attempt of the long jump competition of the class scored M50 Thomas Straub (StTV singing) with 6.51 meters, a new indoor world record for that class. The previously held 6.50 meters of the Finn Pertti Ahomäki had withstood all attacks for almost 15 years before Thomas Straubhaar this capability in Erfurt surpassed by one centimeter.

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March 24, 2012

2 Responses

  1. Marie-Louise Michelsohn - March 27, 2012

    Congratulations Jeanne!! You deserve it — Fabulous running!!

  2. Dick Soller - March 30, 2012

    Good to see you and amazing results in Bloomington. Best of luck in Finland.

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