Record-setting frenzy at National Senior Olympics
The meet ain’t even half done and already a bunch of world and American age-group records have fallen at the National Senior Olympics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Yesterday, for starters, Bobby Whilden of Texas knocked a hallowed Payton Jordan world record off the books. Bobby, 70, clocked a stunning 12.76 for the 100 with a 1.8 mps wind (barely legal) to upend the 12.91 M70 record set by Payton in 1991 at age 74.
Other records of note:
Sarah Overton, 80, of Tennessee broke Canadian Olga Kotelko’s listed world record of 1.0 in the W80 high jump, clearing 1.01 (3-3 3/4). And sprinter Kathy Bergen of California broke the listed W65 AR in the high jump, clearing 1.33 (4-4 1/2), just below the listed WR of 1.34 by Holland’s Rietje Dijkman.
More record details to come.
