Bob Lida on record rampage at National Sr. Olympics
Bob Lida of Wichita apparently plans to rewrite the M70 record book at Louisville. Yesterday in the 200 prelims of the National Senior Olympics, he led all qualifiers with a 27.26 into a 1.0 mps wind. The world age-group record is 26.71. The American record? Payton Jordan’s 26.8 hallowed hand-time from 1987. In the 400 finals yesterday, Bob clocked 1:01.59 — a national record. (Old: 1:02.2h by John Alexander in 1989.) In the M75 high jump, Richard Lowery of Florida set a national record, clearing 1.39/ 4-6 3/4 to beat the listed best of 1.34/(4’4¾”) by Ray Propst
in 2005. In the M80 high jump, a national record went to Bill Wambach of Wisconsin. His 1.24/4-0 3/4) beat the old record of 1.22/4-0 by Virgil McIntyre way back in 1991. Keep it up, ladies and gents. You’re going wild!
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Great times….Great athletes.
Congrats gentlemen….such incredible examples you are.
Sal Allah
Bob,& Coach Colbert,
As mentioned yesterday you
guy’s are among the top sprinter’s in the world you have both proven it in prior World Championships.
And you will be hard to beat at Riccione in Sept!
Once again you have denied the ageing process from taking anything away from your talent! Stay strong as you are today and be successful in all your future endeavors.
Rich Rizzo
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