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Mary Norckauer, 90, is USATF Athlete of Week for several WRs
USATF couldn’t ignore Mary Norckauer. Wednesday she was named USATF Athlete of the Week after claiming what it said were eight W90 American records and three world records at the USATF Southwest Indoor Championships on Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [I found only two WRs and an additional fIve American records.] Two masters were recognized […]
March 11, 2015
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American records in W90 long jump, M85 weight throw at SW
Your great-grandmother can be an American record-holder, but she’d better act soon. Available slots in W90 are going fast. USATF lists only four indoor records in that age group. Make that five after Saturday, when Mary Norchkauer long-jumped 1.60 meters (5-3) at the USATF Southwest Regional Indoor Championship (masters and open) at Carl Maddox Field […]
March 8, 2015
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Mastersrankings.com plans ‘World Rankings Awards’ in 2015
John Seto thinks his seasonal lists website can be a platform for “World Rankings Awards” for 2015. He writes: “Athletes will get points for their ranking (legal wind performances only) in each ranked event and the athlete with the most combined points in each WMA region after the 2015 rankings are finished in early 2016 […]
October 10, 2014
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Guido MĂĽller named IAAF World Best Master for record 3rd time
For the third time in a decade, Germany’s Guido MĂĽller has been named WMA World Masters Athlete of the Year (male division). WMA didn’t reveal the winner, however. The Eurovets spilled the beans. The news leaked thusly: “Guido MĂĽller made the double. He became European Best Veteran and now he will be honoured in November […]
September 23, 2014
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USATF nominates Bill Collins, Joy Upshaw for IAAF Best Masters
Mary Trotto has tallied votes of her USATF Masters Awards Committee (including mine) and announced that Bill Collins and Joy Upshaw will be America’s nominees for IAAF World Best Masters honors at the end of the year. The WMA Council chooses from among WMA regional picks for the top spots, who get all-expenses-paid trips to […]
August 29, 2014
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Flo Meiler becomes oldest steepler, ups WR in the W80 vault
Hall of Famer Flo Meiler of Vermont is a multi-event legend. But like Olga Kotelko, Flo is just coming into her prime — as an 80-year-old. On June 21, two weeks after entering her new age group, Flo became the oldest female steepler on record — and upped the WR in the vault several times […]
July 8, 2014
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Masters Madness: WMA website snores while athletes go all-world
March Madness is under way. And the NCAA homepage is all over it. Meanwhile, Budapest worlds are halfway done, and the lead item on the WMA website is: Updated Budapest Schedule (22.03.2014). Come again? No news of world records set, Olga Kotelko’s W95 debut, incredible turnout (nearly 4,000 from 70 nations)? So here goes my […]
March 27, 2014
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Aussie Lavinia Petrie breaks own W70 world records in 5K, 10K
Back to Tasmania. Aussie masters nationals ended Sunday, and here’s the scoop. The Athlete of the Meet appears to have been W70 distance phenom Lavinia Petrie. News outlets are reporting that she lowered her own world records for 5K and 10K on consecutive days. One site said she shaved 45 seconds off her own 10K record, […]
March 13, 2014
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Christa Bortignon could be next great masters vaulter — at 77
Toronto’s Globe and Mail, the No. 2 paper in Canada, turned its attention this week to that other track star from Vancouver. Not Olga Kotelko but her W75 pal Christa “IAAF World Best” Bortignon, setter of 14 world records and a birthday girl Wednesday. We learn, among other things, that Christa wants to be a […]
January 31, 2014
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Deadline extended for Budapest worlds; entry lists are posted
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, you can always count on deadlines being pushed back for major international masters meets. The latest is Budapest. Despite a USATF statement that “the entry deadline is February 3, 2014 (no exceptions),” the LOC says: The deadline to enter for the 6th World Masters Athletics Championships indoors, to be […]
January 27, 2014
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