Brown, Pye hurdle ‘records’ highlight Day 2 of hot Jax nationals
Derek Pye was 2014 indoor world champ at Budapest. At Jacksonville, he ran out of Lane 1.
But USATF’s press release misstated something when it said: “Some of the participants in this week’s competition will qualify for the World Masters Championships to be held in Aug. 4-16 in Lyon, France.”
Uh, nope. WMA has no qualifying meet or standards — unless you’re from India.
Here’s the bulk of Friday release:
JACKSONVILLE — Storms that ran through the Jacksonville area prompted an abrupt halt to the first day of action of the 2015 USATF Masters Outdoor Championships at Hodges Field on the campus of the University of North Florida.
Track events resumed Friday morning beginning with 5,000 meters and 400 meters, with the latter going straight to finals.
From start to finish, field events caught the eye of everyone in attendance for a multitude of reasons. High jump offered a wide array of stars performing on Friday afternoon.
Olympian Chaunte Lowe (Loganville, Georgia) delivered a new meet record at 1.85m/6-0.75. The seven-time USATF Outdoor champion, including her most recent 2015 title, was hesitant in her efforts due to a tender ankle, but hopes there is much more to come.
“This is just the beginning,” Lowe said. “I’m looking forward to a long career in masters track & field.”
W60-89 high jump provided quite the excitement early with a pair of jumpers achieving great heights. Christel Donley (Colorado Springs, Colorado) resumed action in the morning by breaking the current American record with a mark of 1.03m/3-4.5, while Kathy Bergen (La Canada, California) cleared 1.20m/3-11.25.
James Oglesby (Kissimmee, Florida) was the only thrower in his shot put division to surpass 10 meters and took care of the M80 field with his best toss of the day at 11.43m/37-6.
The lone participant in the M98 shot put and the most experienced participant in this year’s championships, Champ Goldy (Haddonfield, New Jersey) began a remarkable weekend of events. Goldy threw 5.36m/17-7 in the shot put, his only event on Friday. He will take on the 100 meters, discus, javelin and weight throw on Saturday.
Jon Noland II (Tampa, Florida), 41, turned in the fastest 5,000m performance of the day, taking the M30-59 title in 15:43.94. He was the only sub-16:00 runner on the day.
“I’ve been out of track & field for 25 years. Now I’m back with masters and I’m going to stay at it,” Noland.
For the women’s 5,000m, Sonja Friend-Uhl (Brentwood, Tennessee) captured the W30-54 title with a time of 17:26.77. Marisa Sutera Strange (Pleasant Valley, New York) and Julie Mercado (Springboro, Ohio) rounded out the top three finishing with times of 17:59.13 and 18:21.68, respectively.
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More on Willie Gault’s 14.41 hurdles mark — into a wind!
http://masterstrack.com/2006/05/1117/
New American Record for the W35-39 Shuttle Hurdle Relay as well. Included Anne Sluder (W40) and Melanie Blake. Annie now has W35-39 and W40-49 shuttle hurdle relay records.
Congrads to all the new Record holders.
Congrads to Derek for his great hurdle race.
Note: I believe the pic of Derek Pye at Worlds was by our great track supported Sara.
Great pic Sara.
Thank you for this acknowledgement. It’s an honor to even be mentioned in the same conversation with the likes of Willie Gault and Karl Smith.
Also, thank you Jeff Davidson as well. We would’ve loved to have run in the shuttle hurdles as well, but the heat and dehydration was almost unbearable, and the injury put an end to that.
Lastly, to our great track supporter, Sarah, thanks for the picture and all of the pics that you take of so many athletes. We truly appreciate having you at the meets.
I think that Ty Brown is being slighted here by the mention of a mysterious “12.18” 15 years ago. Fifteen years ago, on May 13, 2000, Jim Stookey set the American M70 record in the M80 hurdles of 12.99.
If you go to the USATF website, you will see it still stands, although Ty Brown has two marks that are superior to Jim’s (Ty ran 12.69 and now a 12.61 at nationals) and will no doubt get the new record.
What’s my point? This article (posting) suggests that Jim Stookey, 6 weeks after his historic 12.99 in 2000, went up to a small meet in New Jersey and ran 12.18. That time is unthinkable, essentially impossible. After all, at the international level, Arno Hamaekers has held the world record for 5 years at a scorching 12.96, or 0.78 sec slower than Stookey’s magical 12.18.
I announced Jim Stookey many times, as I have Ty Brown. There is NO WAY Dr. Stookey ever ran close to 12.18. More to the point, there is no way he could ever have beaten Ty Brown, not even once. I’m guessing that Stookey ran right around 13 flat in that New Jersey race.
We should accept Ty Brown’s records without question and should not compare them to a time at a small meet 15 years ago that was literally off the chart.
By the way, Ty Brown is my guy. He runs beautifully, hurdles magnificently, and never tells anyone else that he’s better than they are.
As far as Derek Pye is concerned, he’s my man. What a performer he is; I hope to announce him again.
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