Jamaica’s McFarlane makes IAAF Berlin 400H final at age 37
Danny McFarlane is in his own universe. Competing in the semifinals at the IAAF world championships today in Berlin, the Jamaican legend lowered his own listed M35 world record in the 400-meter hurdles to 48.49, beating his 2008 mark of 48.57. (Just kidding. Danny ran 48.30 at an obscure meet in China last year. WMA’s records are often wrong in the younger age groups.)  Danny is 37, and his time today — on a track like the one we used at Lahti this month — would have taken second in the flat 400 in the M35 age group at worlds. In any case, it’s long past time for someone in World Masters Athletics to review Olympic results in recent years and update the WMA site in the 35-39 groups. In other news, fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt set an M20 world record in the 100 of 9.58. Bolt turns 35 in August 2021.
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Update wma site? Yes, in the 35-39 groups, but also in the other groups. We need masters statisticians.
My personal statistic: Since 45 minutes I run only 71.06 m in the same time that Usain Bolt runs 100 m. Bevor it was 71.88 m. “Sigh”!
http://berlin.iaaf.org/index.html is the official website of the Worlds 2009 in Berlin. Next, click on “Bolt’s 100m World record analysed every 20 metres – Biomechanics Project, Berlin 2009” and open the .pdf file under Related Contents and then you really, really get blown away. And the commentator on NBC was wrong as well. Asafa Powell had the best reaction time and the best first 10 m. Then, the tall kid ran away (t60-80= 1.61 seconds!) Yes, you can find that analysis as well. Just go to the Biomechanics Project on the official website. There, you will find the 10 m splits and 20 m times for all 16 semi-finalists. Maybe we can hire the master statisticians who run this project? It would be cool to see how the race distribution changes over the age groups. Would the graphics shown for Bolt and the graphics of our age group superstars match?
DannyMac ran a 48.13 last month in Monaco.
See his IAAF bio page:
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=JAM/athcode=9176/index.html
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