Dieter Massin’s meet produced TWO women’s heptathlon WRs

I used to consider him the Darth Vader of masters track. But Germany’s Dieter Massin, former president of the Eurovets, puts on a great track meet. It was his Stendal meet that yielded Weia Reinboud’s W65 world record in the hep and high jump. Turns out a second heptathlon record was set as well — by Anja Akkerman. Since the 500-gram javelin replaced the 400-gram stick in the W60-W75 age groups, a second set of hep records are being created. Weia’s Dutch countrywoman Anja scored 5709 points to break the listed W60 world record in the “new” hep of 5458 by Germany’s Ulike Hiltscher. Anja’s marks were: 80 hurdles (14.93), high jump (1.25), shot put (9.14), 200 (32.43), long jump (4.04), javelin (30.00) and 800 (3:06.49). OK, Rita Hanscom, that’s your new target. The ultimate goal is displacing the “old” W60 hep record of 6341 by America’s Phil Raschker in 2007, set with the 400-gram jav.