More highlights of Ontario masters meet: Canadian records
Complete results from the Ontario masters indoor championships haven’t been posted, but Doug Smith put up a stunning series of images. Most show new Canadian record holders, including my fave Karla Del Grande (only a little older than me but two seconds faster in the 200. Sigh.) Karla ran 8.54 to break Carol Lafayette-Boyd’s W55 national record of 9.18 and dashed the deuce in 28.15, taking down Diane Palmason’s 30.33 Canadian record. Three hours after his 400 WR, Earl Fee clocked 32.07 in the 200 and just missed American Mel Larson’s 31.86 world record. (But Earl shattered Aleks Ernesak’s 35.5 national record.)
W55 Karla Del Grande is Earl Fee’s female clone (but younger and prettier).
Other highlights from the Toronto meet over the weekend:
- M80 Robert Comber ran a 3:41.95 for 800, breaking Les Leyland’s 3:58 Canadian record.
- W60 Rhona Trott ran a 11.33 in the 60 hurdles, breaking Edith Grey’s 12.88 national record.
- M60 Hugh Miller jumped 3.11 (10-2 1/2) in the pole vault to beat Stan Egerton’s 3.03 record from 1988.
- W35 Michelle Hastick-Cowell broke the Canadian record in the triple
Jump with a 12.07 (39-7 1/4) almost two and a half meters past the old
mark held by Corry Fox from 1995 Buffalo worlds.- W80 Velta Tomsons put the shot 5.87 (19-3 14), breaking Olga Kotelko’s 5.75 record.
- M45 Danny Yoisten broke the national record in the weight throw with a
10.67 (35-0 1/4). The old record was 10.23, held by Jackson Tovell from
1980.- Rhona set a Canadian record with a 11.92 (39-1 1/4) in the weight throw.
- M55 Jan Graczyk threw 17.79 (58-4 1/2) in the WT, breaking Rudy Boghina’s national record by 5 meters.
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Karla Del Grande is a superstar, but when I talked to her at Landover she pretended she was just an average person. Karla rocks.
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