WR for dropping down in age groups for national record relay?
They cheated! This Canadian 4-by-100 team got a ringer for the relay. IAAF Best Masters Athlete Christa Bortignon of British Columbia, 78, dropped down to the W60 age group to help the Greyhounds Masters Track Club set a national record. Competing on April 26 at Oregon’s famed Hayward Field in Eugene, the team of Deborah Lee, Christa, Urith Hayley and Elaine Whidden clocked a 1:03.74. This breaks the listed Canadian W60 record of 1:04.60 by Team Canada at 2011 Sacramento worlds. (The listed WR is 55.77 by Germany.) Their coach is the famed masters long sprinter/hurdler Harold Morioka. So can anyone beat Christa for dropping down three age groups?

Craig Godwin photo shows (from left) Elaine Whidden, Deborah Lee, “Bill Bowerman,” Christa Bortignon and Urith Hayley.(But I don’t see grey.)
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