WMA counts 43 world records set at Lyon — nice but not quite

Peru's Hugo Antonio Delgado Flores also excelled at Lyon. Photo by Tom Phillips

Peru’s Hugo Antonio Delgado Flores was a Lyon sprint stud. Photo by Tom Phillips

World Masters Athletics has posted what it calls world records set at Lyon. Wish it were true. More accurately, it’s a list of marks that beat listed world records. But at least a half-dozen were short of marks set earlier this year. M50 David Heath has at least two sub-4 1500s, for example — better than the 4:01.54 he clocked in winning at worlds. And W55 Nicole Alexis has gone sub-13 and sub-27 — better than her Lyon sprint marks of 13.03 and 27.06. And W60 Rita Hanscom’s 6043 at U.S. combined events nationals was better than her 5989 at Lyon and likewise for Jean-Luc Duez in the M50 dec, where a year ago in Lyon he had a better score. (Also, Kathy Bergen cleared 1.22 in the W75 high jump before Rietje Dijkman did at Lyon.) So we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the better marks percolate up to world record status. Anyone spot other records in error, or not reported?

Here’s what WMA is showing as records:

WMA RECORDS SET IN LYON, FRANCE 2015
M 70 200 m 26.47 Glyn Sutton GBR 10/08/15
M 50 1500 m 4:01.54 David Heath GBR 14/08/15
M 35 4×400 m 3:17.82 Baird,Brown,Collins,Beardsell GBR 16/08/15
M 75 4×400 m 4:47.85 Jakob,Klaus,Knorr,Müller GER 16/08/15
M 95 High Jump 1.00 Emmerich Zensch AUT 14/08/15
M 95 Long Jump 2.15 Emmerich Zensch AUT 12/08/15
M 80 Hammer Throw 49.53 Jose Sanza Agreda ESP 04/08/15
M 80 Javelin Throw 41.09 Lothar Huchthausen GER 14/08/15
M 95 Triple Jump 5.23 Emmerich Zensch AUT 09/08/15
M 65 Weight Throw 22.10 Arild Busterud NOR 05/08/15
M 50 Decathlon 7864 Jean Luc Duez FRA 05/08/15
M 85 10 K Road Walk 73:52 Ivan Pushkin UKR 09/08/15
W 55 100 m 13.03 Nicole Alexis FRA 06/08/15
W 55 200 m 27.06 Nicole Alexis FRA 10/08/15
W 75 200 m 33.79 Kathy Bergen USA 10/08/15
W 60 400 m 64.31 Caroline Powell GBR 12/08/15
W 90 400 m 2:46.56 Emilia Garcia de Fontán COL 15/08/15
W 85 800 m 4:15.99 Melitta Czerwenka-Nagel GER 09/08/15
W 85 1500 m 8:50.42 Melitta Czerwenka-Nagel GER 14/08/15
W 55 10000 m 37:06.36 Silke Schmidt GER 10/08/15
W 80 2000 m Steeplechase 15:43.23 Florence Meiler USA 16/08/15
W 80 80 m Hurdles 19.32 Irene Obera USA 15/08/15
W 70 200 m Hurdles 36.71 Marge Alison AUS 11/08/15
W 50 300 m Hurdles 44.90 Barbara Gähling GER 11/08/15
W 35 4×100 m 46.65 Stafford,Springer,Hutchinson,Mark-Baird TTO 16/08/15
W 65 4×100 m 60.31 Zörner,Buchholz,Reismann,Meier GER 16/08/15
W 80 4×100 m 1:21.06 Donley,Meiler,Chou,Obera USA 16/08/15
W 60 4×400 m 4:49.58 Godsell,Trimble,Roe,Powell GBR 16/08/15
W 70 4×400 m 5:32.95 Macliver,Hampson,Lang,Allison AUS 16/08/15
W 80 4×400 m 8:39.32 Chou,Harada,Donley,Obera USA 16/08/15
W 85 Long Jump 2.93 Rosa Pedersen DEN 12/08/15
W 45 Triple Jump 12.01 Murielle Glovil FRA 15/10/15
W 75 High Jump 1.22 Rietje Dijkman NED 07/08/15
W 85 High Jump 0.95 Rosa Pedersen DEN 07/08/15
W 50 Discus Throw 46.11 Olga Cherniavskaia RUS 11/08/15
W 50 Javelin Throw 47.14 Genowefa Patla POL 12/08/15
W 50 Heptathlon 6456 Barbara Gähling GER 05/08/15
W 55 Heptathlon 6682 Marie Kay AUS 05/08/15
W 60 Heptathlon 5989 Rita Hanscom USA 05/08/15
W 80 Heptathlon 5730 Florence Meiler USA 05/08/15
W 35 Throws Pentathlon 4114 Marie-Josee Le Jour CAN 15/08/15
W 60 Throws Pentathlon 4519 Anne Jensen DEN 16/08/15
W 65 Throws Pentathlon 4599 Margarethe Tomanek BEL 16/08/15

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August 24, 2015

5 Responses

  1. Weia Reinboud - August 25, 2015

    No idea how they have counted them. The official list of WMA does not mention my new W65 records and I’ve jumped higher in Lyon.

  2. Chris Bates - August 25, 2015

    I think Jean-Luc Duez’s M50 decathlon record last year wasn’t ratified because of wind, but he also did another score over 7800 this year in the French championships, so he’s broken the old record three times now, hopefully one of them will stick for him.

  3. Ken Stone - August 26, 2015

    Sorry about radio silence past couple days. Having great fun, but exhausted at end of each day (hiking miles and shooting thousands of pictures).

  4. barbara racine - September 1, 2015

    i THINK irene obera is the best athlete of 2015

  5. bert bergen - September 5, 2015

    With all due respect to Irene Obera , a truly great athlete , . I would be remiss if I didn’t suggest that in 2015 , Kathy Bergen is the Athlete of the Year .She set six world records and one American record during the Indoor and Outdoor seasons .Tough to top .

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