Last weekend, a gent emailed me with the wonderful news of a W40 American record in the 1500: Kris Paaso, 40, running 4:29.54 at the Stanford University Invitational, beating the listed American record of 4:32.73 by Joan Nesbit in 2002.
What’s the most popular video subject on the BBC America website today? Japan? Libya? One-minute world news? Wrong on all counts. It’s Olga Kotelko, our W90 world-record superstar from British Columbia. She tells her story to freelancer Brandy Yanchyk. Olga
Don Pellmann was ready. His shadow was ready. The meet was ready (with a USATF sanction in hand). So yesterday at the Bay Area Senior Games held at Stanford, Don proceeded to smash three world records and one American record
Last August, Aussie Keith Bateman called his shot. He came to the plate and pointed toward five world records in the M55 distances—1500, mile, 3000, 5000 and 10K. Nonsense, huh? Look again, sports fans. He made it 4-for-5 Saturday by
Ed Whitlock’s recent speed drills (his indoor world records at Kamloops) are just the appetizer. The main dish comes April 10, when he’s entered in the marathon at Rotterdam — renowned as one of the fastest courses in the world.
In response to an athlete’s question, I got this reply from LOC official Bob Burns about house implements at Sacramento worlds in July: “When we post the entrants’ manual online in May, it will go into greater detail, but here’s
Stefan Waltermann shares this news for decathletes, heptathletes and everyone involved in the so-called combined events: “Jumpin’ Joe Johnston asked me last year if I could help with an Apple app, a combined-event point calculator for Apple Notebooks, iPhones and
Even though John Altendorf says he hasn’t been “jumping at a level I should,” he managed some passable vaults last weekend at Canadian masters indoor nationals. Yeah, I’d say. He upped the M65 world record twice, beating the listed WR
Ed Whitlock trains at an Ontario cemetery, but he’s about 10,000 miles from the grave. Over the weekend, he ran 3000 meters in 12:00.88, lowering the listed M80 world record of 13:30.77 by Oregon’s John Keston in 2005. He did
I’ll go out on a limb here: The field that Richard Holmes has assembled for the 110-meter masters hurdles exhibition at the Mt. SAC Relays in April may rival the M40 final at Sacramento worlds. Here’s his lineup: himself, M40
I’m not sure how fast marks are being posted, but the web portal in Gent, Belgium, for the five-day European Masters Indoor Championships looks very efficient and comprehensive. One hopes their timing systems are better than America’s. See results here.
Being reborn in masters track isn’t new. But being reborn as a hammer thrower is novel, especially if you were an Olympic high jumper. Meet Ann Marie Flynn, a W70 thrower who was profiled in her local Connecticut newspaper on