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Best WAVA/WMA guy sprinters of all time? Medal tally reveals a tie
Who’s the most decorated masters sprinter of all time? As far as guys at outdoor world masters meets, the answer is a tie: Aussie Peter Crombie and Britain’s Stephen Peters. Both boast 47 medals at 100, 200, 400 or the relays. That’s part of a chart making the rounds, which I haven’t double-checked. But it […]
December 16, 2016
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Dick Bergenback dies at 90; top-notch thrower for almost 50 years
Richard “Dick” Bergenback — a national-class masters thrower out of Tennessee — competed for almost 50 years. His last major season was 2012, when he threw in meets like the USATF Southeastern Masters Championships and Senior Olympics in Tennessee and Georgia. Now we learn that he died Nov. 20 at his Chattanooga home — less […]
December 15, 2016
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USATF masters seeks help stockpiling poles for national meets
Bill Murray, USATF Masters co-chair for combined events (like dec and hep), writes that Rex Harvey, our new national chair, is looking to acquire vaulting poles for storage in Indianapolis (with throws implements and 27-inch hurdles). They get shipped to national masters championships. The Masters T&F Committee will help fund this, but Bill seeks to […]
December 14, 2016
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Christmas greetings from W60 cutie Kay Glynn with new hips
W60 multi-eventer Kay Glynn sends her latest holiday card and news of her recovery from hip issues: “With my two hip resurfacings in the past, by January I will have NO restrictions!” she writes. “While I’ve been able to go back to several events in-between my hip surgeries and ACL surgery, I’ve never attempted running hurdles […]
December 13, 2016
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Ed Whitlock suggests he’s running today because he missed Games
If Ed Whitlock had joined his English contemporaries at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, would he still be running (and demolishing records) today? The M85 distance god’s answer appears to be no. He says in a great new video that had he gotten the right training and guidance, and avoided injury, he might have gone to […]
December 11, 2016
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Proposals on masters rules, records strike out at USATF meeting
A month ago, I highlighted proposed rule changes being considered at the USATF annual meeting in Orlando. Today I checked the “scorecard,“ showing which efforts got approved, rejected, etc. Turns out our items were withdrawn or tabled, including Item 44, a bid to make it easier to set masters age-group records (by requiring as few […]
December 10, 2016
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Clay Krames dies at 90; Texas thrower was long-ago Longhorns star
Clay Krames of the University of Texas was a conference medalist in the late 1940s. (He also threw discus at the Kansas Relays.) After graduating in 1949, he pretty much quit the game. But he came back to throw disc (as well as hammer and javelin) at the National Senior Games, the last time in […]
December 9, 2016
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Follow us! Boost masters track by expanding social media reach
Two years after throwing a snit over USATF masters ignoring social media, I’m delighted to see strong gains on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms. Bob Weiner’s annual report [see it here] on masters media still focuses on TV and newspaper coverage, but a section by social media maven Sandy Triolo, a W50 sprinter, is the […]
December 8, 2016
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Rex Harvey, beating cancer, gets Yahoo Sports love on USATF job
Wednesday was a great day for Rex Harvey, our new masters national chair. Yahoo Sports ran a press release on his USATF job. Bigger yet, Rex wrote on Facebook: “Good News. Just finished status checkup yesterday with CAT scan and blood work. Tumors remaining from my appendix cancer are unchanged and the tumor protein indicators […]
December 7, 2016
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Alisa Harvey ZCT-missing 800 mark OK’d by Records Committee
In Orlando, Masters T&F Records chair Jeff Brower submitted a list of 129 “approved” marks for USATF American age-group records. The wider USATF Records Committee signed off on 130. The extra mark? It’s No. 166 — Alisa Harvey’s W50 indoor 800 record of 2:18.14 on February 20, 2016. Jeff listed it as “In Waiting” because […]
December 6, 2016
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