A slew of weight records were set over the weekend. On the West Coast, M85 Harvey Lewellen of Springfield, Oregon, threw the 12-pound weight 12.24 meters (40-2) to nip the listed American record of 12.21 (40-0) by Karlis Ezerins at
USATF has no excuse now. Andy Hecker of Southern California has dug up docs showing Jeanne Daprano ran a W75 mile world record 6:58.44 in July 2012. Her phototimer image (below) and her signed record application (see it here) were
Wanna be USATF Athlete of the Week? All you need is two things — a world record and name recognition. So it went with Olympic champ Charles Austin, whose 2.05 (6-8 3.4) world record in the M45 high jump over
This hurts to write. Olga Kotelko is dead. I got the tragic news from her Canadian author friend Bruce Grierson on Tuesday afternoon: “A major blood vessel feeding Olga’s brain ruptured on Saturday night. Blood bled into brain tissue and
Bob Hewitt is our Ashton Eaton. If he isn’t setting world records (M75 and M80) in the decathlon, he’s trying the long hurdles. But not even Ashton can boast what Bob did over the weekend at the Portland Masters Track
Charles Austin, the USATF Hall of Famer and Atlanta Olympic high jump champion with a best of 2.40 (7-10 1/2), has made a big splash in a small-pond meet. M45 Charles cleared a world-record 2.05 (6-8 3/4) at the South
Rietje Dijkman turned 75 on Saturday and high-jumped 1.20 (3-11 1/4) on Sunday, reports W60 Weia Reinboud from Holland. Boom! World record. “She did not realize it was a world record,” Weia writes. “She also ran a national record of
Dave Ortman, my M60 multi-event buddy in Seattle, is a connoisseur of fine meets. So when he has something to say, meet organizers should lissen up. He sent me a critique of the Hayward Masters Classic — set for next
The schedule at Winston-Salem nationals shows timed finals in the 800-meter run — mostly on Thursday, July 17. (Some 800s are run Saturday.) But USATF rules for years have said timed finals apply to 1500 and longer at outdoor nationals.
How lucky can you get? San Diego had an all-comers meet on my 60th birthday — and charged me only $5! So I entered the 400 at San Diego Mesa College, and James Lofton out in Lane 14 or 15
Think your bib number is no biggie? Ask M60 distance runner Alan Robb. He says he made no mistake, but organizers of the 56-mile Comrades ultramarathon in South Africa say he didn’t wear his age-group tag — and are denying
Parachute-deploying Eugene Driver has a serious side — as president-for-life of the Trojan Masters Track Club. His driving ambition in recent years has been reviving a masters track meet on the campus of the University of Southern California. I competed
