Mexico’s Rifka, older than Topic, qualifies for HJ final

Romary Rifka of Mexico, who turned 37 on December 23, 2007, set a Mexican indoor record of 1.90 (6-2 3/4) in high jump qualifying today at IAAF indoors. She’s three months older than Serbian Dragutin Topic, who is merely the oldest male flopper at the meet in Spain. My apologies to Romary for not recognizing you. Geezers are coming out of the woodwork at worlds! The listed indoor WR for W35 is 2.00 (6-6 3/4) by Ukraine’s Inga Babakova in 2001. RR jumped 1.95 outdoors last season and has a PR of 1.97 from 2004. But her indoor best had been 1.86 (6-1 1/4) from 2004. She’s on fire!