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Doubts raised about Nolan Shaheed’s seed time for IAAF race
Within hours of my posting the list of over-60 men invited to the IAAF Portland 800-meter race, I was getting private messages. They basically said: “What? At 66, Nolan Shaheed has a recent 2:17.5?” Some cited mastersrankings.com, where Nolan’s best listed 800 of recent vintage is 2:31.88. I didn’t put much stock in that, since […]
February 5, 2016
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Canada’s Lenore Montgomery mauls W85 world record in 800
Lenore Montgomery has been a Canadian middle-distance star for years, and she added to her legend over the weekend with a W85 world record at 800, clocking 4:39.14. She smashed the listed WR of 4:56.10 by Ukraine’s Vladylena Kokina in 2012 as well as a never-ratified 4:44.68 by Australia’s Margaret Prowse in 2009. On the […]
July 6, 2015
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Future of mastersrankings.com in doubt — with funding an issue
Over the past month, visitors from 137 countries have checked out John Seto’s behemoth of a site — mastersrankings.com. “I’ve seen around 100 simultaneous visitors earlier this month and 9,000 unique visitors over a weekend,” he told me in response to queries. “There should be over 60,000 sessions and about 360,000 page views this month. There […]
June 21, 2015
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Monster challenge: Eurovets building Top 10 lists in all age groups
Masters stat dudes in Europe are tackling a major chore — preparing all-time top 10 lists in each age group. Many events are missing, but they’re trying to do for Europe what mastersathletics.net heoically tried to do for the world. The Eurovets site details the efforts and urges folks to share their marks. “The idea […]
May 22, 2015
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Update: Steinbach, Lemme win Age-Graded titles at Hartshorne
Coreen Steinbach, 63, of Pompey, NY, took fifth in the W50 elite race at Hartshorne on Saturday — but easily captured the age-graded title with a 6:13.10 mile. Her AG time was 95.99 percent, according to updated results shared from Cornell in Ithaca, NY. (The listed indoor WR is Kathy Martin’s 5:47.25.) (All races were […]
January 24, 2015
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Joy MacDonald dies at 73; held WRs in vault, was MTF treasurer
Joy MacDonald, a former distance runner who set W55 and W65 world records in the vault, has died of a heart attack, her daughter reports. When wasn’t specified, but Jennifer MacDonald writes that her mom passed away while working at her desk. “[She] had been feeling fine prior,” Jennifer says. “She was able to maintain […]
January 5, 2015
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Happy holidays from our poster girl for rehabbing masters stars
Iowa’s Kay Glynn is expecting her eighth grandchild as the year wanes. But never flagging is her spirit and sense of fun. As she recovers from hip and ACL surgery in the past year (which has sidelined her from the vault and hurdles), she sends her eighth seasonal greeting photo. She also posted a video […]
December 14, 2014
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Bob Hewitt: Masters Athlete of the Year honor is ‘tops for me’
Bob Hewitt says he heard of his selection as USATF Masters Male Athlete of the Year from a friend in Stockholm, Sweden. “Lars Wennblom emailed me congrats for being selected male AOY. I told him he must be confused with my 75+ award from 2013,” Bob, now 81, graciously told me via an email Q&A. “After he […]
November 13, 2014
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Brazen Brazilian, 76, won three M85 golds at Porto Alegre worlds
For at least five seasons leading up to Porto Alegre worlds, Francisco do Carmo Oliveira of Brazil competed with a claimed date of birth of June 8, 1927. That meant he was M85 at his home country’s 2013 world meet. But in a comment posted Friday, Italian statmeister Luigi Fasolato reported that Francisco was a […]
October 17, 2014
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W85 Rachel Hanssens of Belgium may be next Olga Kotelko
Rachel Hanssens is no stranger to world records, but in the past two months, she’s outdone herself — and even the legendary Olga Kotelko. Belgium’s Rachel beat the listed Olga record in the throws pentathlon — twice. First was in early July and again (but lower score) at the Eurovets meet in Turkey. According to […]
August 30, 2014
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