Christa Bortignon, as Canadian masters records coordinator, reports that Helena “Helly” Visser over the weekend broke the 1500 world indoor record with a time of 7:48.23 at the Golden Bear Open T&F Meet in Edmonton, Alberta. “Just missed the world
The late Bob Fine was chair of the AAU Masters T&F Committee and wrote the first WAVA Constitution. He also edited the first issues of National Masters News. One of his goals was promoting masters democracy. In the very first
Media worldwide have reported the death of Chris Chataway, the famed broadcaster who helped pace Roger Bannister to the first sub-4 mile in 1954 and was a 1952 Olympian and later a member of Parliament. He also ran masters track
NBC’s “Today” show aired its Olga Kotelko segment Friday morning — with great clips of her throwing the hammer, sharing her food faves (sauerkraut and pickled herring) and working out with host Natalie Morales. Bruce Grierson, author of “What Makes
World champion and sprint record-setter Irene Obera has retired at least twice. But after turning 80 in December, the Hall of Famer made a big mistake. She glanced at the record books. “I can do that!” I hear her saying.
Two weeks after serving notice of her fitness, Karla Del Grande took down two W60 indoor world records Sunday in Ontario. Doug Smith reports via Facebook (and shares photos on this post): “THREE World Records at today’s Ontario Masters Winter
Beating your age in the 400 is tough. How about running 12 seconds faster than your age? Masters legend Guido Müller did it Saturday at the 25th LAC Quelle Fuerth masters meet in Bavaria, where results show he clocked 63.34
Jim Proctor posted this note on Facebook: “It’s OFFICIAL! The NCCWMA North America-Central America-Caribbean [Regional] Masters Championships will be held August 2014 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Rainbow taken from the Crown Plaza Hotel before signing, a good omen, with
Randy Sturgeon, recovering from cancer, has sold National Masters News to W55 national champion sprinter Amanda Scotti and W55 runner Tish Ceccarelli. That’s the word from Amanda, a veteran NMN staffer, who writes: “We have both worked there for a
Legend has it that 106-year-old Larry Lewis, a San Francisco waiter, ran 100-yard sprints as exhibitions under 18 seconds. His marks never made it to the record books. But M100 sprinters aren’t as rare as you’d think, and the latest
John Wall is my newest hero. He’s an Australian M65 sprinter who two years ago was preparing to die. According to an amazing story in The Daily Telegraph: “After the operation, and the diagnosis was what is was [a malignant
Mark Cleary is USATF West Region coordinator, an appointed post that puts him in charge of the masters championships for the states of California, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. In July 2010, I noted complaints of some athletes to
