This is a treat. Eurosport video has gone viral, especially on Facebook, showing Finland’s Ilmari Koppinen and Belgium’s Emiel Pauwels in the 60-meter finals March 21 at the Eurovets indoor championships in San Sebastian. Since one is 94 and the
I’m so happy I could, you know, do No. 2. A committee of respected masters athletes has come up with ideas for fixing our excremental records process. Chaired by sprint record-holder Stephen Robbins, the group including announcer Peter Taylor, sprinter/hurdler
Rob Jerome, who took the storytelling photos on this entry, wrote Saturday: “Bruce McBarnette just won M55 HJ with 1.88 (6-2). Doesn’t that beat the 1.87 WR he set just a weeks ago? I ran into Bruce right before the
Didn’t take long to kick off record spree at Landover nationals Friday. Before breakfast, I’d already sent news and Ed Burke photo to his hometown Los Gatos Patch about his latest superweight throw record. Later in the day, records fell
Landover indoor nationals start Friday and run through Sunday (including a live webcast), and organizers are giddy a record 1,043 are entered. Big whoop. Italian masters indoor nationals had 1,341 entrants, and the Eurovets indoor championships boast 3,200-plus (see the
Jim Schoffman shared this news with me recently — great news for the womenfolk. “I received this notice that the Drake Relays Masters registration has opened. But more important is the addition of a women’s master 800 this year.” The
Marathon superstar Ed Whitlock and long-sprint/middle-distance legend Earl Fee would rarely face each other on the track, but a relay? Teammates! They and two other M80s — Ray Wardle and Bill Thompson — joined Sunday at the Canadian Masters Athletics
She may have been throwing a lighter stick, but Linda Cohn at 60 is taking up where she left off at W55 — setting American records in the javelin. According to results from a Cal State Northridge meet (near where
Our moles report: “Team Canada Women 50 broke the World Record in the 4X800 Relay at the first day of the Canadian Masters Indoor Championships in Toronto, running 10:32.66. That broke the existing USA record of 10:38.97 set last year.
Christian Cushing-Murray is a SoCal distance legend but lacks name recognition on a national scale. No more. Friday night at the Occidental Distance Carnival in Los Angeles, CCM burned a 1500 in 3:55.09, taking down John Hinton’s listed M45 outdoor
Competing in the Middle Atlantic USATF Open/Masters Indoor Championships at the University of Delaware last Sunday, 88-year-old Hugh Campbell ran 3000 meters in 15:46.41 — incredibly under the listed M85 indoor WR of 17:24.85 by Portugal’s José Canelo in 2011.
Paul Babits raised his own M50 world indoor vault record last month, I’ve just learned. He cleared 4.75 meters (15-7) at the Brenda Lee Open at Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to his website. The listed indoor WR is Paul’s 4.73
