Flo Meiler sets indoor records in vault, long jump

Flo’s breakout W80 season last year is still going strong indoors in 2016. Photo by Ron Jerome

Flo Meiler says she has a sore throat but no aches and pains after competing last weekend at the indoor Dartmouth Relays. (See masters results here.) Heck, I’d have a sore throat from celebrating two world or Americans records. At 81, she threw the shot and weight throw Saturday and did the vault, long jump, high jump and 200 Sunday. Flo’s 1.75 in the vault (5-8¾) crushes the listed WR of 1.43 (4-8 1/4) by Germany’s Christel Happ. And Flo long-jumped 2.81 (9-2 3/4) to beat the listed AR of 2.72 (8-11¼) by Irene Obera. I wrote Flo for comment, and she graciously replied: “I still train 5 days a week. You have to when you turn 81. The Good Lord has blessed me with a healthy body. I take an Herbalife Nutritional Shake every morning and several vitamins each day. Works for me.” Also notable at Dartmouth was the comeback of Carl Wallin, who founded the New Hampshire indoor meet with Ken Weinbel. He reportedly has suffered from cancer.



Results for Carl and Flo at Dartmouth:

M70 Weight Throw
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Wallin, Carl M74 Lebanon, NH 14.63m 13.85m 45-05.25

M70 Shot Put
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Wallin, Carl M74 Lebanon, NH 10.97m 10.30m 33-09.50
2 Schlosser, John M72 Wilmot, NH 9.98m 32-09.00

W80 200 Meter Dash
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Meiler, Flo W81 Shelburne, VT 50.05

W80 Pole Vault
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Meiler, Flo W81 Shelburne, VT 1.76m 5-09.25

W80 Long Jump
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Meiler, Flo W81 Shelburne, VT 2.81m 9-02.75

W80 Shot Put
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Roman, Mary W80 Norwalk, CT 8.06m 26-05.50
2 Meiler, Flo W81 Shelburne, VT 6.57m 21-06.75

W80 Weight Throw
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Name Age Team Seed Finals
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1 Meiler, Flo W81 Shelburne, VT 9.15m 30-00.25
2 Roman, Mary W80 Norwalk, CT 9.02m 29-07.25

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January 12, 2016

4 Responses

  1. Weia Reinboud - January 15, 2016

    Has there been a typo or so, the results page now gives 1.02 in stead of 1.18 for the high jump!

  2. Rob Jerome - January 16, 2016

    A true champ…Flo never rests her on her laurels.

  3. Ken Stone - January 16, 2016

    Blog fixed to remove reference to 1.18m WR high jump. Meet results were in error. Flo jumped 1.02.

  4. Daphne Sluys - January 16, 2016

    Way to lead Flo 🙂

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