Archive for February 25, 2008
Kamloops to host first non-European indoor worlds
Congrats to Kamloops! Canadian and WMA brass have confirmed what we telegraphed earlier: Kamloops, British Columbia, will host the 4th World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships. The dates are March 1-6, 2010, according to Brian Keaveney, head of the Canadian Masters Athletics Association and president of the North, Central America and Caribbean WMA region. Meanwhile, another […]
February 25, 2008
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Babits raises M45 indoor vault record to nearly 17 feet
Paul Babits, 47, vaulted 5.14 meters (16-10 1/4) indoors at the Brenda Lee pole vault meet yesterday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to a posting (probably by Paul) on mastersrankings.com. This would shatter his own M45 world indoor record of 5.01 (16-5 1/4) set six weeks ago (and reflected on the WMA records page). It […]
February 25, 2008
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Joe King makes mile comeback: 7:13.25 at age 81
Running in the rain, Joe King, 81, clocked a mile Saturday in 7:13.25. That beats the listed M80 world record of 7:16.16 by Canada’s Hans Weickhardt in 1994 and the listed AR of 7:36.55 by John Hosner in 2006. However, 80-year-old John Keston ran 6:48.3 in May 2005 — a mark that created a buzz […]
February 25, 2008
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Kamloops, B.C., reportedly seeking 2010 indoor worlds
According to German runner Annette Koop’s blog, Kamloops, British Columbia, will bid to host the fourth World Masters Indoor Championships in 2010. It would be the first WMA indoor worlds outside Europe (following 2004 Sindelfingen, Germany; 2006 Linz, Austria; and this year’s meet in Clermont-Ferrand, France). Don’t know who else is in the running, but […]
February 25, 2008
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