Archive for June 4, 2007
Merlene Ottey, 47, clocks 11.83 in outdoor opener
Merlene Ottey, who turned 47 on May 10, has set another age record. In her outdoor season debut Saturday in Norway, she ran a hand-timed 11.4 heat and then an auto-timed 11.83 final for 100 meters — which shatters the unofficial age-47 record of 12.54 by Germany’s Karin Von Riewel in 1996. Merlene’s news page […]
June 4, 2007
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Harvey, Shaheed named masters Athletes of the Year
Two record-setting milers have been named Athletes of the Year by USA Masters Track & Field. Forty-one-year-old Alisa Harvey of Manassas, Virginia, and 57-year-old Nolan Shaheed of Pasadena, California, are the first AoY picks under a new system in which all honorees will be saluted in person at the Athletes Banquet at the USATF national […]
June 4, 2007
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Sorensen claims huge world record at 1500 meters
Jim Sorensen is ready to go sub-4! Tom McGlynn of Focus-N-Fly running club shares details of one of the greatest masters runs of the decade — a sub-3:45 1500 by 40-year-old Jim: “On a night when the Oregon Track Club showed why Frank Gagliano is still the best middle-distance coach in the country, it was […]
June 4, 2007
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