Kathy wore a long-sleeve top at lower heights.
raised her own pending W75 world record in the high jump Saturday at the Pasadena Senior Games at Caltech. Minutes later,
Irene Obera lowered her own W80 American record in the 400. Kathy cleared 1.22 meters (4-0) on her first try before missing at 1.25 (4-1 1/4), barely missing once (saying she hit the bar with her elbow). She’ll get it eventually. Irene gave the 4 every ounce of strength (and it showed). Her time was 1:34.53 (worth 49.9 on the Age-Graded Tables).
(See results here.) But she crushed her own listed AR of 1:39.92 from 2014 Winston-Salem nationals. (The listed WR remains 1:31.21 by Italy’s
Emma Mazzenga.) Meanwhile at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California,
Jeff “Mr. Shuttle Hurdles” Davison ran the 110-meter hurdles with 42-inch barriers in
22.74 seconds at the Jim Bush open meet (in a race won in 13.39). That’s an unofficial record for age 57.
(See results.) Video of Kathy’s jump will be posted soon, plus a meet photo gallery.
Irene guts out last yards of 400-meter dash at Pasadena Senior Games.
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Link to Unofficial Age Records for the 110 meter 42 inch hurdles:
http://mastershistory.org/42/42.htm
Note: Crandall ran a faster but wind aided at age 57.
Perhaps an even greater performance from Irene was her 200m in 36.84, a scant .04 sec off her own wold record from last year’s Outdoors. Irene ran a full two seconds faster than her season-opener last weekend, but she was helped tremendously in this race by the efforts of the incredible Kathy Bergen.
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