View of German team meet stadium in Essen.
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 been doing this. But points are given to every mark (age-graded?) and teams are ranked.
Here are results for entrants 30 and over.
Alfred Hermes reports “the weather was fine” and listed the winning clubs: Pulheimer SC (M70), StG Dusseldorf / Aachen (W60), LAC Quelle Fürth (M60), StG SF Neukieritzsch (W50), StG Rhein-Sieg seniors (M50), TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (W40), LG Kindelsberg Kreuztal (M40), StG OWL (W30) and LBV Phönix Lübeck (M30). Here are
results by team. More details on meet
are here.
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This is the ONLY fair way to do it. It’s how it’s done in ALL USATF LDR Nationals. Combining age groups for team scoring is ridiculous. It’s not “apples vs apples”.
We in the Netherlands have another format, yesterday was the final. It are club teams of all ages from 35 and older, results are age graded plus a small correction because the older ages are clearly overrated. Results are here: https://www.atletiek.nu/wedstrijd/uitslagen/7346/
‘Alles’ gives all results and you can order them as you like. Two athletes per club are allowed to compete, but only the best counts.
Participants of the finals are the best teams of two earlier meets, may and june, with much more clubs. Very nice meets!
I have no idea which points the Germans use, it’s not the official points for multi events.
In the results of Essen the best performance is the World record in Long Jump W55 of Ramona Pfeiffer
5.06 (w+0,6) 4 days after her birthday.
In Spain we took 11 years making the club championship. We use the WMA table. In men, there are 16 teams competing in 20 events. Women are 8 teams competing in 14 events. Also we do indoor with 8 teams and all events.
I like that it’s limited events- just eight. A sprint, a middle-distance, a long distance, a relay, two jumps, two throws.
And these are real clubs, too, so people might pitch in and do an event that is not be their strongest.
The points are given to every mark (age-graded). The decisive factor is the age group of the team, not the athlete. For example, in W40-team every participant gets the age-graded ponts of W40, even if she is W55.
OK But which points?
Christian LГјck 100m M40 time 11.86, age graded 11.36. IAAF multi decathlon points would be 782, the IAAF Hungarian table gives 783 but he gets 660 points.
Or Olaf Kartenberg high jump M50 1.70. Age graded 1.97, Decathlon points 776, Hungarian Table 863 points, but he gets 703…
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