Hayward Field has seen the fastest (9.68) race ever run and now one of the slowest. But it’s still a world age-group record. At Day 1 of the Hayward Classic yesterday in Eugene, Bill Lauderback of Bend, Oregon, chopped a couple seconds off his listed M90 American record for the mile. He clocked 10:52.98 at age 91, faster than his own listed AR of 10:54.62, which is faster than the listed WR, you’ll recall. Click here for a video of his race. Complete results are being posted here. And Bill also ran the 100 and 400! In the high jump, Bruce McBarnette became the No. 2 M50 of all time with a U.S. record 1.91 (6-3 1/4) — behind only the legendary 2.00 (6-6 3/4) indoors by Germany’s Thomas Zacharias in 1997. Here’s Bill, interviewed by Kevin Ullman:
Truth be told, Bill has a ways to go to be the fastest middle-distancer in his age group. The listed M90 world record for 1500 meters is 8:40.0 by Norway’s Petter Green in 2002. Petter had only to walk 100 meters in 2 minutes to be faster than Bill.
But a record is a record, so kudos to Bill!
Other fantastic marks included a legal 12.37 for 100 by M65 Steve Robbins (short of Paul Edens’ 11.99 but better than the listed WMA WR of 12.50) and a 15.54 by M80 Bill Melville. On the women’s side, W65 Marie-Louise Michelsohn ran the 2K steeple in 9:10.30 — less a second off her world record of 9:09.25 from 2007 Orono nationals.
Results in the Hayward Masters Classic Mile:
M30-94 1 Mile Run Age Graded
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Name Age Team Finals
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1 *Garth Merrill M42 Loose Moose 5:15.92
2 Christopher Gassner M47 Unattached 5:30.19
3 *Michael Hazilla M62 Potomac Valley 5:47.03
4 Rod Thompson M59 Central Oregon R 6:08.29
5 *Joe Wilcox M65 Hawaii Masters T 6:13.68
6 Les Castle M62 Unattached 6:25.73
7 Keith McConnell M64 Oregon TC 6:49.28
8 Joe King M82 Unattached 7:09.60
9 David Wilkins M64 Oregon TC 7:18.42
10 Bill Lauderback M91 Unattached 10:52.98
Dozens of events were videotaped and posted at runnerspace. Incredible work, guys!
Here is Bruce’s 1.91 jump:
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You go, Bruce. And thanks for clearing things up for me. I was going to chat with you before the hj at Spokane about how you were doing re Herm Wyatt’s M50 record (6-2), but now I know you will be “pending American recordholder for M50, Bruce McBarnette. Bruce recently jumped 6′ 3 1/4.” Looking forward to seeing you in Spokane.
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