Merlene Ottey runs 100 meters in 11.67 — latest W50 world record
According to these results (posted in Slovenian) and several news sites, sprint goddess Merlene Ottey took second in the 100 at yesterday’s “Mednarodni atletski miting KRKA 2010.” She clocked a legal 11.67 in the prelims and a legal 11.71 in the finals. Her 11.67, of course, lowers her own W50 world record of 11.84 on June 26 in Maribor, Slovenia. Merlene scratched from the 200 yesterday. Among M50 American men this year, Merlene would be No. 2 in the 1! Only Michael Waller could beat her (on a good day). On the 2010 Age-Graded Tables, 11.67 corresponds to an open (ages 20-30) mark of 10.32. Get out! (Her real PR is 10.74 from 1996.)
Before Merlene turned 50 in May, the W50 world record was 12.50 seconds.
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WOW!I have a feeling she’s not done.
Yeah, but is she running clean– I think taht’s a big question mark ?
Merlene just butchered the over 50s 200m world record. Ottey ran 24.33 sec and improved the former W50 world record set by Marie Lande Mathieu (25.65 sec.)
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