American Antonio Palacios was favored to win the M45 triple jump at Budapest, but he pulled a hamstring on the first jump and Russians swept the medals. But photographer Rob Jerome was so taken by Antonio’s effort that he sent
Thanks to all-world athlete Rita Hanscom and all-star photograher Robert Jerome, I double-dip today for Budapest news. Rob sent me a great shot of Rita over the pentathlon high jump bar on her way to silver in W55. She’s only
Bully for Budapest. LOC is using tried-and-true system for posting results. See results here for Day 1, which includes the men’s and women’s pentathlon. First WR at worlds may be M35 Oscar Gonzalez of Spain in the pentathlon, according to
Robert “Bob” Hunt, a world-class hurdler in his 50s and 60s inducted into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame in 2004, died Saturday at an Anaheim hospital in Southern California, his son said. He was 93. David Hunt told me
Last November, I wrote about a shady outfit promoting Athletic Greens, a dietary supplement. Peter Taylor commented on my post, noting that he’d seen Ed Whitlock’s image connected to the supplement-pusher. I didn’t see the photo until a couple days
Jimson Lee’s Speed Endurance blog has a new guest columnist: world-class M50 sprinter Allan Tissenbaum. His first topic is near and dear to his legs: the hamstring. Allan suffered a hammie pull at Olathe nationals, and knew what befell him.
Thomas Zacharias is back — despite lumbago in his back. A 1968 Olympian with an all-time high jump best of 2.22 (7-3 1/4) indoors, Thomas straddled another world indoor record this month. Now 66, he cleared 1.65 (5-5) to beat
So you have a country that isn’t named USA, Australia, France, Italy, Spain or Finland. Wanna get a world outdoor masters track championships? Here’s your chance. WMA has issued a call for bidders for 2018 outdoor worlds. The 2015 meet
With the NCAA indoor championships being held the same weekend, I feared USATF would overlook the stars of Boston nationals. Thank goodness, Indy held to form. They chose a star of the masters meet as the USATF Athlete of the
Dave Clingan writes about his Oregon Masters Mile on June 14: “Yes, we are about to celebrate our 10th year of world-class masters mile competitions during which four American records and three world records have been broken in Portland, Oregon.
Helly Visser ran a mile Saturday at the Running Room 36th Annual Indoor Games in Edmonton, Alberta. But whatta mile! Competing with two others, she clocked an incredible 8:19.70 to beat American Gerry Davidson’s listed world record of 10:54.48 from
If it’s Sunday, it must be Obera record day. Of course, Irene Obera — the comebacking W80 from Fremont, California — also set records Friday and Saturday at Boston nationals. So after claiming the age-group 400 American record on Day
