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What a birthday celebration! German sets M50 pentathlon WR
Germany’s Thomas Stewens turned 50 on Saturday and claimed the WR in the outdoor pent. Thomas scored 3886 points to beat the listed M50 WR of 3834 by Austria’s Georg Werthner in 2006. Here’s how our friend Alfred Hermes broke the news: “Thomas Stewen (M50, TV Bad Vilbel) reached at the German Senior Pentathlon Championships […]
September 11, 2016
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W70 thrower Cindy Wyatt joins Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame
W70 thrower Cindy Wyatt, who won shot and discus at Michigan nationals, has a new title to celebrate. In October, she’s being inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. “All join a rich heritage of native Western New Yorkers, or those who starred in and around the Buffalo Niagara region during their playing […]
September 10, 2016
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Art Parry claims another indoor pole vault WR at Fort Collins
A couple weekends back, I got word that Arthur “Art” Parry vaulted 3.35 meters (10-11 3/4) for an M70 indoor world record at the Rocky Mountain Masters Games. Apparently, it’s a tradition at Colorado State to hold the event indoors. In fact, Art set the M65 WR there in 2011. Friday, I got the results (see […]
September 9, 2016
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Johnny Appleseed of vaulting looks to plant a new Florida home
Joe Johnston, our favorite East Coast vault maniac, is the subject of a new profile by the Orlando Sentinel. (Here’s one from 2011.) This week’s story reviews the history of his backyard “Joe Dome” vault center. But it’s in disrepair and “critters” are using it to crash. So now he’s looking to build an indoor […]
September 8, 2016
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Heads up for meet directors: USATF meet sanction fees rising
USATF gadfly Becca Gillespy Peter of polevaultpower.com notes on Facebook that Indy is boosting the price of meet sanctions. The official announcement says: “USATF has not modified its sanction fees for at least thirteen years, yet inflation costs have risen in excess of 25% during that time. In addition, USATF’s ability to continue offering this […]
September 7, 2016
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Italy’s Fabrizio Donato destroys 23-year-old WR in M40 triple jump
At 1989 Eugene worlds, the great former UCLA Bruin Milan Tiff, 40, triple-jumped a world record 15.70 meters (51-6). That crushed the listed M40 WR of 15.06 (49-5) by Germany’s Michael Sauer in 1982. Four years after Milan’s massive hop-step-and-jump, another American — Ray Kimble — improved the WR to 16.58 (54-4Âľ). And there it […]
September 6, 2016
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WMA scrambles to revive website after someone pulled the plug
The World Masters Athletics website has been offline since late August, and now we know why: “It looks like the current host provider (NICOLAS RUSSI of Switzerland, mediasprint gmbh) turned everything off without giving anyone a heads up,” says Jeff Brower, current WMA webmaster. “So we’re working feverishly to get the new website up. Hopefully […]
September 6, 2016
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W55 world record in long jump sets up 3-way Perth showdown
Germany’s Ramona Pfeiffer, the W50 Lyon world champion, claimed the world record in the W55 long jump over the weekend, reaching 5.06 meters (16-7 1/4) at her nation’s club meet. She beat the listed WR of 5.01 by countrywoman Christiane Schmalbruch way back in 1993. But Ramona could lose that record to any of several […]
September 5, 2016
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Germans hold club championships by 10-year age groups
USATF stages an open club championship and awards a team title at masters nationals. But nothing we do compares with the German masters club meet. Saturday in Essen, North Rhine and LVN-Kreis hosted a major event where club titles were awarded for men and women separately in 10-year age groups. Not sure how long they’ve […]
September 4, 2016
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Kathy Martin 104% age-graded tops masters at Fifth Avenue Mile
Results of Saturday’s Fifth Avenue Mile show an amazing mark by Hall of Famer Kathy Martin. At age 64, she ran 5:50 for an age-graded 104 percent — worth a 4:02 mile for ages 20-30. (Last year was a mess with Kathy first being reported as a runner-up in her age group.) The listed W60 […]
September 3, 2016
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