Joy Upshaw downs a Phil Raschker USA record: W50 300 hurdles
It might not count for record consideration, but let the world know that a long hurdle mark by Joy Upshaw is among the best in history. At the Pride Meet in San Francisco on Aug. 13, Joy ran the 300 hurdles in 46.38 seconds, demolishing the listed U.S. W50 record of 49.20 set at 1997 Durban (South Africa) worlds. (See results here.) Owner of that 14-year-old record was Phil Raschker, who would go on to set a W55 record of 49.14! (The W50 WR is 45.05 by Christine Müller.) Sadly, the Pride meet isn’t listed on the USATF events calendar, hence it’s probably not sanctioned. In any case, Joy had a great weekend, running the 100 in 13.05 into a wind and a 26.51 deuce. She also long-jumped 4.90 meters (16-1). Nice work, Joy!
Joy had such a great time at Sacto worlds, she's keeping the season going.
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Who better than our friend Joy deserves to be the best master of the year in women and I hope that is winning in Monte Carlo in November, a spectacular athlete and solar power as she is a commercial for the World Masters.
GREAT JOY
Congratulations to Joy, who has had a fabulous year. According to the meet Web site, the Pride Meet is sanctioned by USATF. Of course, some people think that that is some definitive statement on quality. It is not; it means that the organizers decided to get a sanction by filling out a form and sending in a check.
Regardless, I hope that everything was done the right way and that Joy will get her record. I recall that in March Joy set a world indoor mark in a USATF sanctioned meet by running 26.24 in the 200. That meet was in Albuquerque, our national indoors.
After three revisions of the world marks since Albuquerque, Joy still does not have the listed mark, which, ironically enough, is held by Phil Raschker with a slower time. Hope for better on Joy’s 300 hurdles.
Awesome Joy, you just get better and better.
CONGRATS Joy!! HUGE fan!! Bubba
An absolutely awesome athlete who continues to amaze each time she competes. Keep it up Joy.
She is one of the most formidable competitors in Masters track!!!
Whoop! Whoop! Joyful One.
Amazing time, Amazing year, Amazing Lady and one I’m honoured & proud to call a friend.
An inspiration to me and many more in this sport we love.
Here’s to many more records to be broken:~)
KK
Congratulations to a great athlete and an even greater person.
Let’s put Joy in the Masters Hall of Fame (or did I miss something)? I announced her in Greensboro (indoor nationals) in 1996, and that was 15 years ago. She was tearing things up then and, as Roger Pierce indicates above, in 2011 she “is one of the most formidable competitors in Masters track!!!”
I vote for Joy to be put in the Hall immediately.
Congratulations Joy! You are awesome.
Joy,
Great Performance!!!
I Agree with Mr. Taylor….
Sully
Mega Congrats Joy!!!
Any meet can be posted on the USATF calendar, sanctioned or not. Someone just has to do it.
USATF calendar also denotes sanctioned meets with a dot. It’s a helpful way of checking status. But why wouldn’t a sanctioned meet be on the calendar? Seems that should be part of the fee paid.
Ok I love Enrico’s post!!! Nothing really lost in translation there! You are a Solar Power Joy and like Kirstin said, You are an inspiration! So happy for you. Just looking at you and the condition you are in shows how much work you put into your sport this year and I’m so happy you could reap what you have sewn!!! YAY!!!! WOOOOOO!!!
Great job Joy, thanks for everything you have done for Track and Field.
Fabulous achievement Joy. Saw you run for the 1st time at the Worlds last month but your legend had already gone before you and seeing you compete in the flesh only confirmed it. Top stuff!!
I second that Hall of Fame motion. Nice job Joy!!!
Linda
What a response after tripping and falling down in the Los Gatos All-Comers meet. You are amazing. Is there anything you cannot do?
Joy is running faster now than she did 10 years ago, unbelievable!
Congratulations Joy …another fantastic performance. You are amazing.
Wow Joy…what a great performance! Congrats!
..Thanks everyone! 🙂
It has been a good year of training/racing… That’s the great thing about our Masters Track..we can be down one year (injuries,moving, life stuff,etc) & up the next (better training, focused, settled, etc).. and we have more years! Yay! Love our age group stuff! You all have been good examples/people in our sport:-) See you on a track soon!
Nice Joy!!!
In the end, when all is said and done, Joy’s name will be plastered all over the record books. As an athlete, she’s just too technically sound to be denied – period.
Joy has God speed, and it is a joy to know her and to behold her in motion.
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