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America gives blessing to newest M55 multieventer

Stefan Waltermann’s inspiring story about gaining U.S. citizenship has a final exclamation point: Official approval from USATF Masters Track and Field. On January 12, USA Team Manager Phil Greenwald wrote Stefan: “Given that you have the release from the German Federation, we are now in a position to welcome you to compete for the United […]

January 14, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

British masters threaten M65 sprinter with lifetime ban

Anthony Treacher, a record-holding British M65 sprinter living in Stockholm, will be banned for life from British and international masters competition on January 15 if he doesn’t apologize to the British Masters Athletic Federation. His offense? Being relentless in pursuit of a complaint against the national team manager. After nearly two months of correspondence, including […]

January 13, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Report: Kathy Martin lowers W55 indoor mile record

From one of my masters moles: “I don’t know if anyone has let you know yet about more great performances from the amazing Kathy Martin. This was a New York Road Runners meet at the Armory in New York last night (mile, 800, and 2 mile). Kathy broke the world indoor record in the mile […]

January 12, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

W40 sprint champ deals with fatal shooting at school

Marjorie Milligan Jackson, a W40 national champion in the sprints, has been assistant principal at Foss High School south of Seattle since August 2004. On Jan. 3, tragedy visited her Tacoma school: One student fatally shot another. “My husband,” she recalls, “was traveling to the hospital and listening to NPR when he heard: ‘There has […]

January 11, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Striders offer package tours to Riccione worlds

The Southern California Striders, a masters club whose annual awards dinner was featured here recently, has yet another claim to fame — its own in-house travel agent. W50 sprinter Jeanne Bowman is putting her skills to work for teammates (and others) by organizing a trip to the Riccione world masters championships in early September. Here […]

January 11, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Masters records from consummate pro Peter Matthews

On the world athletics scene, statman Peter Matthews is considered a god. His annual compilation of results, records and seasonal lists — Athletics: The International Track and Field Annual — is the Bible for track statisticians. So every year, I ask him to update me on what he considers the best over-35 and over-40 marks. […]

January 10, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Stefan’s story: Welcome a new American master!

Stefan Waltermann is an American! Only four months after taking fourth in the M55 pentathlon as a German guest at the Charlotte masters nationals, he took the oath as a U.S. citizen — at the Charlotte federal courthouse. But the story was just beginning. He wanted to compete for America, too. And now he’s just […]

January 9, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Pete Taylor confirmed as Boston indoor announcer

Contrary to rumors, Pete Taylor will indeed be a meet announcer at the USATF Masters Indoor Championships in Boston in late March. His selection became official this week after a meeting of event organizers. But for reasons not yet made public, Pete will announce only Saturday and Sunday events, he reports. Not Friday. It’s not […]

January 9, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Britain’s Parsons smashes WR for indoor 60 meters

Val Parsons of Great Britain on Sunday broke American Kathy Jager’s W60 listed world indoor record for 60 meters, clocking 8.83 to pip Kathy’s 8.91 set almost three years ago. So reports correspondent Tom Phillips across the Pond. “Val (pictured here at last year’s Poznan Eurovets meet) ran in what was by all accounts a […]

January 9, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Alisa Harvey lowers own W40 world indoor mile record

Alisa Harvey out on the East Cost, again allowed back on the George Mason track, reports that she lowered her own world indoor W40 mile record Saturday. “I ran 4:47.2,” she writes. “I finished second behind Keira Carlstrom (4:46.1). It was a pleasure to be allowed to compete again at the Mason track meets. I […]

January 8, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment