Masters LDR offers Perth travel grants to nonstadia athletes
Three months ago, we reported how the USATF Masters T&F Committee was offering travel grants to help cut costs for medal-potential Americans headed for Perth worlds starting in late October. Now the Masters LDR Committee is jumping on the bandwagon. Here are details. (But it wasn’t immediately clear whether LDR will match the $5,000 overall budget of MTF.) “Travel assistance is only for those athletes who have achieved a recent performance(s) in a USATF LDR championship that exceeded a medal performance in the 2015 WMA Outdoor Championships in Lyon, France,” LDR says. “The application is due July 24th. Decisions to be made by August 1, 2016.” You have to be entered in one or more of the non‐stadia events — the 8K cross country, half‐marathon, marathon or 10K or 20K walks. (Application is here.) Apparently, this news didn’t break until the weekend, with Paul Carlin among the first to post.
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Mary Rosado says LDR will make available a total of $2,000 to $3,000 “and the amount of grant will depend on how many applicants we receive.”
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