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Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:38 pm

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I attended my first Masters Nationals last week and it was quite a first experience. The field in the M50 javelin was extremely deep in talent. I never thought I would be in a Masters meet where 6 guys threw over 50m and each had a chance to walk away with the gold. All of the throwers in the finals (eight) exceeded the All-America mark in the meet by at least 5 feet. In fact third place was decided by 10 cm. I was in awe of the excellent group of guys which included (I heard) at least one former NCAA champion, and several NCAA national meet finalists, and several former Masters Nationals champions. It certainally sets a high bar for some of us mortals to shoot for next year!

* I also want to commend the officials, who I felt were outstanding. There is always controversary over flat throws in javelin, but overall they were great.



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Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:02 pm

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luv2throw wrote:
I attended my first Masters Nationals last week and it was quite a first experience. The field in the M50 javelin was extremely deep in talent. I never thought I would be in a Masters meet where 6 guys threw over 50m and each had a chance to walk away with the gold. All of the throwers in the finals (eight) exceeded the All-America mark in the meet by at least 5 feet. In fact third place was decided by 10 cm. I was in awe of the excellent group of guys which included (I heard) at least one former NCAA champion, and several NCAA national meet finalists, and several former Masters Nationals champions. It certainally sets a high bar for some of us mortals to shoot for next year!

* I also want to commend the officials, who I felt were outstanding. There is always controversary over flat throws in javelin, but overall they were great.



USATF: * 70.71m
Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Robertson, Warren M51 Unattached 52.90m 173-07
2 Janusey, Michael M52 Unattached 52.36m 171-09
3 Hansen, John M52 Unattached 50.84m 166-09
4 Opilo, Matthew M54 Unattached 50.83m 166-09
5 Lorenzen, Gene M54 Golden West 50.76m 166-06
6 Sinclair, Tom M53 Unattached 50.45m 165-06
7 Love, Richard M50 Unattached 45.44m 149-01
8 Russ, Jim M53 Unattached 44.19m 145-00
9 Marchand, Edouard M50 Unattached 41.02m 134-07
10 Dixon, Gary M52 Manasota Track Club 37.76m 123-11
11 Mendoza, Charlie M52 Unattached 33.02m 108-04
12 Chase, Steve M54 Unattached 23.80m 78-01
13 Bibby, Douglas M50 Acorn/Oscar 23.14m 75-11
14 Arce, Andrew M52 Unattached 21.91m 71-10



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Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:45 am

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Some top Americans weren't at this meet, if you throw in the top Canadians the top 12 North American rankings would currently look like this ........................

All are Americans unless otherwise noted.
Those hi-lighted in red weren't at this meet

1. Zane Rodriguez 60.95
2. Michael Janusey 55.44
3. Chuck Greene 54.83
4. Warren Robertson 54.38
5. Robert Shirts 51.96
6. Dave Birnie 51.69 Canada
7. John Hansen 51.59
8. Matt Opilo 51.53
9. Tom Sinclair 51.26
10. Gene Lorenzen 50.76
11 Marty Withers 49.56 Canada
12. Chris Stone 48.15



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Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:45 pm

 
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No doubt all the top throwers weren't there, but a good representative group was. In all of the other competitions I saw at the Nationals, 1-3 good throwers were in the field and then it seemed to drop off from there. It's one thing to see marks on a year long list, and another to see practically everyone live up to their billings.

I don't know other events and age groups, but this 50-55 javelin throwers group looks pretty deep in quality.



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