Martin, Michelson claim indoor records at 3000
Last week’s Thursday Night at the Races at the NYC Armory saw three potential distance records — not just the one by Kathy Martin mentioned here earlier. Kathy crushed the listed W55 world and American indoor records for 3000 meters with her 10:42.9. (The old record: 11:00.10 by Italy’s Lucia Soranzo in 2005. The old AR was 11:25.05 by Joan Ottoway in 2000.) But this, too: Mary-Louise Michelson ran 12:30.2 in W65 to miss the listed WR by less than two-tenths of a second but demolish the listed American record of 13:09.19 by Jeanne Daprano in 2003. My source in the New York Road Runners group, meet host, says W40 Marisa Hanson “unofficially broke the U.S. age group record, but in the absence of three official watches . . . her performance . . . could not be validated.” No time was given.
Results from the Armory:
Heat 2 of 2
1 Tara Maguire 10:48.9
2 Kathy Martin 10:49.2 New World and American record, old world record 11:00.1, women 55-59. Amazing.
3 Barbara Gubbins 10:53.6
4 Lynn Knothe 10:58.4
5 Kristina Maletz 11:00.3
6 Jeanne Halloran 11:05.0
7 Ligaya Mishan 11:17.9
8 Lesley Chaplin-Swann 11:19.2
9 Sarah Janssen 11:24.8
10 Tanya Mohatt 11:32.4
11 Rachel O’Driscoll 11:36.2
12 Cinthya Sandoval 11:39.6
13 Tara Mullen 11:47.3
14 Sarah Rivlin 11:57.9
15 Sarah Donahue 12:01.9
16 Susan Strauss 12:17.6
17 Marie-Louise Michelson 12:30.2 New American Record, women 65-69.
18 Makiko Yashda 12:44.7
19 Margot Sheehan 13:08.3
20 C. Hona? 13:39.6
21 Mary Eileen Kiernan? 13:41.6
