Ortman, W50 relay star at Portland masters meet; videos up
Fidel Banuelos graciously reports this online archive of videos he shot at yesterday’s Portland masters meet. Fidel writes, “You can do a search on flotrack under my name (fidel) for more videos, but here are assorted videos from the pdxmasters meet this weekend. If you go to minute 4:20 (into the video), the relay team of Nemesis from Tacoma set a record.” (Apparently, Martha Mendenhall’s club broke the the American W50 4×100 club record of 58.73 by the Atlanta Track Club in 2008. The Nemesis ladies ran an announced 56.39.) (Update: They were W40 as team.) The meet was held at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, just outside Portland. The venue was the site of a combined USATF Northwest Regional Masters Championships, the Oregon Association Masters Championships and the Portland Masters Classic. I haven’t seen complete results, but stars included M55 Dave Ortman of Seattle, who set a bunch of region, association or meet records: a long jump of 5.38 (17- 7 3/4 inches), 400 in 58.78, triple jump of 9.92 (32-6 1/2 inches) and high jump of 1.56 (5-1 1/4). He also clicked off a 100 in 12.74.
Nemesis relay members (from left) were Sherri Woolworth (41),
Martha Mendenhall (50), Kris Costello (49) and Shannon Sharp (44)
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Question: In breaking a record on the relay do all men/women have to be 50 or older?
The age of the youngest member shall determine the age division of a team in a team event or relay. Hopefully, they also broke the record for 40-49.
Report also is that John Altendorf raised his M60 Pole Vault World Record to 4.02m
The results are beginning to pop up on the rankings. Check out the great performances by Becky Sisley as she has entered a new age group.
Great meet. Thanks to the PTC for doing a great job. After my own steeple race, went down to Hayward where I found out about the steeple fiasco there (officials forgot to lower the water jump barrier to the women’s height for the heats on Friday). No such problem at Mt. Hood CC.
See everyone in Oshkosh…
Nope! Our AR for W40 club 4×100 relay still stands at 54.51.
Liz,
They will have to try again with women in the same age division.
Marjorie
Well…they can TRY….. 🙂
Some trash talking on the masterstrack site…nice
Know this is a ways off but anyone know the dates Cleveland is looking at for hosting Outdoor Nats in 2011?
Liz,
Is that a challenge to Martha and her crew? I will let her know. 🙂
Marjorie
Joe Dudman, an M45 runner, blogged his experience here:
‘http://blog.oregonlive.com/runoregon/2009/06/meet_recap_portland_masters_tr.html
Joe Dudman, an M45 runner, blogged his experience here:
‘http://blog.oregonlive.com/runoregon/2009/06/meet_recap_portland_masters_tr.html
Joe Dudman, an M45 runner, blogged his experience here:
‘http://blog.oregonlive.com/runoregon/2009/06/meet_recap_portland_masters_tr.html
Oops, my bad. The women’s 4×100 relay was W40, not W50.
Team leader Martha Mendenhall, replying to my query, writes:
Our name is “NEMESIS” and our names ages and running order are as follows:
1) Sherri Woolworth (41)
2) Kris Costello (49)
3) Shannon Sharp (44)
4) Martha Mendenhall (50)
As far as paperwork goes, we have everything we need to submit for a new US record, unfortunately, I don’t think we got one. I just got home and haven’t had a chance to check but, the officials sent me home with all of the signed paperwork and documentation just in case. We DID break the old Regional record by 7 seconds!!! WOW!
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