Porto Alegre’s main track is at CETE — Centro Estadual de Treinamento Esportivo (or State Center for Sports Training). It may go down in masters history for hosting the greatest quarter-mile races of all time. But mainly for winning marks,
This drives me nuts, or louco in Portuguese. The delightful blog covering the Porto Alegre meet says: “Washington Flores, 88, broke today (24/10) the world record in the High Jump at the 20th edition of the WMA. Competing in 85-89
Assuming the wind readings are accurate, Porto Alegre entrants have dealt with some crazy conditions the past couple days. Multi-gold medalist Joy Upshaw won the W50 80-meter hurdles with a 0.3 mps aiding wind. W70 Marianne Maier of Austria won
Suzy Hess Wojcik, former publisher of National Masters News, shares the sad news: “Melanie Reske, 92, of Springfield, Oregon, died Oct. 21, 2013. A celebration of life will be at 2:30 PM [Sunday] at Grace Community Fellowship in Eugene, Oregon.
Stan Perkins of Australia was re-elected president of World Masters Athletics today in Porto Alegre, with delegates to the General Assembly favoring him over American challenger Rex Harvey 92-38, according to information provided by a source. Here are the other
WMA elections for president and others were today in Porto Alegre, and I’m still waiting on results. In the meantime, see how WMA handled its candidates forum. The following is from Masters Mole 2355c: “Monday evening’s WMA Candidate Forum began
Step aside, Bannister vs. Landy. Australia’s Marie Kay and American Joy Upshaw are the current Queens of Track Rivalry. So closely matched in the long jump and sprints, they require a high-speed camera to separate them. So it was in
Porto Alegre results are a royal pain! Apparently they’ve been updating a single file with each day’s results — leading to confusion over what’s new and old. On top of this, the Hy-Tek software they’re using has outdated records. Witness
German superstar Christa Happ, known to her friends as Christel, died Oct. 11 at age 83, only a few years after setting W80 world indoor and outdoor records in the high jump and pole vault (and also long jump outdoors).
Flickr is fantastic for displaying images, and someone with the Porto Alegre LOC is posting great storytelling shots of the world meet. See the main gallery. I don’t see photo credits off the bat, but I’d like to thank the
Saturday was Speed Day at Porto Alegre worlds with finals held in the 100-meter dashes. See results here. Completing his comeback from a 2009 doping suspension, Val Barnwell won M55 in 11.90 as fellow Americans Tom Jones and Ken Thomas
Oct. 18 results from Porto Alegre show world records in the 100, shot put and heptathlon — all by women. Most amazing is the 13.30 for Canada’s Karla Del Grande in the W60 100 — crushing the listed WR of
