Latest blast from past: 1979 Hanover WAVA results
Hanover, Germany, hosted the third World Masters Athletic Championships in late July and early August 1979. And thanks to the miracles of scanning, Adobe Acrobat and Canadian medalist Ed Whitlock (who sent me 90 photocopied pages), complete results are now online for the first time. I’ve posted two versions as usual: an image file and a searchable file (where you can use Adobe Reader’s “binocular” tool to look up names and events.) Note the last three pages — which contain phototimer shots of selected races. These are among the oldest such images in masters history.
So now we have PDF results from six old WAVA world meets online — 1975 Toronto, 1977 Gothenburg, 1979 Hanover, 1995 Buffalo, 1999 Gateshead and 2001 Brisbane — as big ‘ol PDF files. I listed their locations in this update.
Of course, I’ll collate all these results on a single page eventually for ease of use.
Now my quest resumes for the missing WAVA results.
If you have results books for any of these years — and would be willing to share them with me for scanning and posting — please lemme know. I — and the masters world — would be grateful. I’ll pay all shipping costs.
Here’s what we need:
1981 Christchurch, New Zealand
1983 San Juan, Puerto Rico
1985 Rome, Italy
1987 Melbourne, Australia
1989 Eugene, Oregon, USA
1991 Turku, Finland
1993 Miyazaki, Japan
1997 Durban, South Africa
3 Responses
Ken,
I am a member of the WMA Historical Committee. I would be most appreciaitve if you would either mail or FAX me any world championship results that you may have.
Bob
Ken (and Ed) great stuff !
(the world results)
Thank you,
Jeff
Your work is great. I hope, I can help you. I have been in New Zealand and can give you these results. I need your adress:
New Zealand 1981
San Juan 1983
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