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Olga goes overboard: Eight world records at Canadian meet!

No kidding. Olga Kotelko, who turned 90 on March 2, set 10 Canadian age-group records and eight world records last weekend at the two-day British Columbia Masters Championships in Nanaimo. Track results are here, and field event results are here. Meet maven Harold Morioka reported: “Olga broke five world records: 200 1:04.16 (-2.7 mps wind) old WR was 1:22.29 […]

May 29, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Who’s your healthy longevity role model: Ed Whitlock or Earl Fee?

My Canadian author friend Bruce Grierson wrote the definitive book on Olga Kotelko, who died at 95 after setting a slew of WRs. Now Bruce tackles an interesting question: Should older athletes emulate Ed Whitlock or Earl Fee? His amazing piece in the Globe and Mail of Toronto is headlined: “Ed Whitlock the tortoise, Earl […]

May 7, 2017   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

W65 Weia Reinboud jumps from HJ to javelin world records

Last weekend, Holland’s Weia Reinboud added to her legend by throwing another W65 world record in the javelin. (See results here.) She noted that her 32.02 (105-0 1/2) was with the 500-gram stick, instead of the old 400-gram. “I am not very content with my technique in this throw,” she told me. Now she joins […]

September 30, 2016   Posted in: Uncategorized  8 Comments

High jumper Debbie Brill joins Canadian Masters Hall of Fame

Unlike USATF, which formally announces Masters Hall of Famers and Athletes of the Year in December, Canada’s top awards are revealed in June. So we’re happy to learn that Olympian and masters record-holder Debbie Brill (the real inventor of the Flop) is one Famer. (I met her at 1999 Gateshead worlds.) The other is Richard […]

June 16, 2016   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Myrle Mensey’s monster throws pentathlon: 4754 points = W65 WR

The listed W65 world record in the throws pentathlon is 4411 by Inge Faldager of Denmark, but Margaret Tomanek of Belgium scored 4599 at Lyon worlds. Yet Inge has a pending mark of 4634 from a May meet. Forget all that. As of Sept. 12, the best score on record (using the newly required 500g […]

September 25, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

U.S. W80 teams shatter relay world records on Lyon’s final day

At least six world records were set in relays Sunday at Lyon worlds, including two by American 80-plus ladies in the 4-by-1 and 4-by-4. In the short relay, Christel Donley, Flo Meiler, Fei-Mei Chou and Irene Obera clocked 1:21.06 to demolish the listed WR of 1:49.15 by a Canadian team including Olga Kotelko in 2008. […]

August 16, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

Wally Dashiell dances into the hammer throw record books

Lyon-goers got a well-deserved rest day Saturday. But that isn’t the only game in Earth Town. Saturday at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, about 140 athletes took part in that state’s Senior Olympics, a USATF-sanctioned meet, says Jerry Bookin-Weiner, who shared this news: “We had an American record set in the W90 hammer throw […]

August 8, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Book review: ‘Growing Old Competively’ is rich in images, stories

Many self-published books are vanity affairs. But not the marvelous photo-and-profile effort by Britain’s Alex Rotas. As noted recently, “Growing Old Competitively” focuses exclusively on masters tracksters. She attended major meets and captured dozens of stars in sharp relief. The last of the 43 images is haunting. It shows Belgium’s Emiel Pauwels savoring victory in […]

April 6, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

Irene Obera paces N.C. nationals with records in W80 pentathlon

Hall of Famer Irene Obera isn’t the oldest female pentathlete in history (Olga Kotelko was 93 when she set her record at Jyväskylä indoor worlds in 2012), but at 81, the Northern Californian is pioneering the event post-80. At N.C. nationals Friday, she set a first-ever W80 WR in the event — despite taking a […]

March 20, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

Alex Rotas joins the UK stable of superduper masters shooters

To the pantheon of British photographers who excel at masters track images, add Alex Rotas. She joins Tom Phillips and Lesley Richardson as sharp shooters of our niche. I learned of her via a wonderful video by Growing Bolder magazine. Alex is shown focusing on Florida’s Joe Johnston, the M70 vaulter with his own backyard […]

March 19, 2015   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments