Unbeknownst to the world (and me), Jenn Suhr wasn’t the only world-record setter at USA indoor nationals last weekend. So was 73-year-old Don Isett. He writes: “I competed in the 2013 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in a Masters
Brad Barton used a 62-second final quarter Saturday night to claim the M45 world record in the indoor mile, clocking 4:16.84 at the Armory track in New York, reports the Armory website. That mark falls short of Tony Young’s never-ratified
M40 Eric Prince, whose last exhibition race on the USATF open stage was first in the 200 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, won again Sunday at the USA National Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He clocked 51.59 to win
Bill Collins writes Saturday from Baton Rouge: “Wanted to update you that Horace Grant broke the world record in the indoor 800 meters today. The meet was the Southwest regional championship at LSU. (See results here.) He ran 2:14.23, which
The Eurovets site and World Masters Athletics report: “Polish masters athlete Wieslaw Pietka has been found guilty of an anti-doping rule violation after testing positive during the European Veterans Championships Stadia in Zittau, Zgorzelec and Hradek on 23rd August 2012.
Jerry Bookin-Weiner, meet director of indoor nationals, writes: “Last night was the ‘on-time’ deadline for entries to the USA Masters Indoor T&F Championships in Landover. As of this morning we have 937 people registered. That does not count the foreign athletes (we
Want to rabbit a world record? That’s the request from Hal Lieberman in the Big Apple, who writes about an M70 attempt to crack the WR in the 4×800 relay on Tuesday, March 5. Hal is on the team that
Canadian superstars Christa Bortignon and pal Olga Kotelko opened their season with a pair of world records over the weekend in Kamloops, British Columbia. On Feb. 16, 93-year-old Olga upped her own high jump indoor WR to 0.77 (2-6 1/4)
All right. Forget about little Mary Cain and her latest high school record. At Saturday’s Millrose Games, Houston Elite’s Bill Collins, Horace Grant, Rick Riddle and Charles Allie averaged quarter-miles under 60 seconds in shattering the listed M60 world record
Aurora Perez, who holds the W50 world indoor record at 1500 meters, turned 55 in November and didn’t waste time going after the W55 global best. She got it Feb. 3, says the Eurovets site, “in the city of Antequera
Old straddlers never die. They just break their own records. So we see from Swedish press reports (relayed by Anthony Treacher). According to this Swedish site, barefoot-lead-leg Carl-Erik Särndal lifted his own M75 world indoor record in the high jump
Brad Barton won the masters mile invitational at the week-ago New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston in 4:24.14, beating Hartshorne Mile victor Scott Weeks in the process. He fell short of his M45 indoor WR goal. But cut him
