Oregon’s Harvey Lewellen hammers M85 world record in Portland

Harvey after another record in 2014.

Harvey after another record in 2014.

M85 Harvey Lewellen of the Oregon Track Club Masters claimed a world record in the 3-kilo hammer over the weekend with a throw of 33.18 meters — 108-10. It beat the listed WR of 32.64 by Finland’s Leo Saarinen in 2014. (The listed M85 AR is 32.20 or 105-7 by Robert Chase in 2006.) Harvey, who set a bunch of ARs six years ago, highlighted a bunch of world-class marks at the Portland Masters Track Classic of June 20-21 at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham. Hy-Tek results are here. But Linda Phillips, prez of PMTC, added men’s age group and women’s age group results. Bless her. Linda says temps were in the low 80s “with just a light breeze made for a wonderful two days of competition for the more than 220 athletes.”

Linda adds: “American and world recorder holders were in attendance, tuning up for national competitions. Thaddeus Wilson (M60) ran a relaxed 100 hurdle race (15.51) while PMTC member Robert Hewitt (M80) ran a blazing 36.79 200 hurdle race, 15.65 100, vaulted 2.44 (8-0), long jumped 3.83 (12-6 3/4), tripled jumped 7.91 (25-11 1/2) and put the shot 12.59 (41-3 3/4).”

Then he took a nap, I hope.

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June 25, 2015

3 Responses

  1. Ken Stone - June 25, 2015

    I fixed link to men’s age-group results.
    http://masterstrack.com/wp-content/uploads/Portland2015men-results.pdf

    Sorry for bad link earlier.

  2. Charlie Brocato - June 26, 2015

    This link is incomplete. For example, there are no entries for age groups above 50-54 in the 400m.

  3. Bob Hewitt - July 1, 2015

    I put the shot only 30′-10″ but aspire to better. No nap but on to BC for great fishing.

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