Anne Fischer of Germany won the W55 10K yesterday at the Eurovets championships in Hungary. She finished in 42:10.24, which is good but not remarkable. (The listed WR is 37:09.40.) But Anne carried a heavy burden during her 25 laps
Olympic hammer thrower and Masters Hall of Famer Tom Gage died yesterday, possibly of heart failure, at his home in Billings, Montana, report buddies including Richard Hotchkiss. This shocking news comes less than a month after Tom, 67, won two
The 17th European Veterans Athletics Championships are under way in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, and results are being posted. See results here. Entrant lists are given for each event and age group. For example, the M55 100 list shows 31 guys, topped
Last year when she was 49, Marie Kay never got the memo to take it easy. Oldest in her age group? Time to cruise? Not our Marie. Instead, she set a W45 world record in the heptathlon at Lahti worlds
Amid all my hoohah about heat, I’d be remiss in not mentioning the expected turnout at Sacramento masters nationals late next week. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, some 1,415 athletes are entered. The official USATF news release says more
According to these results (posted in Slovenian) and several news sites, sprint goddess Merlene Ottey took second in the 100 at yesterday’s “Mednarodni atletski miting KRKA 2010.” She clocked a legal 11.67 in the prelims and a legal 11.71 in
Once upon a time, the USATF West Region Masters Championships was a one-day meet. Folks came from three or four states to compete at places like Los Gatos High School (near San Jose) or Cerritos College in Norwalk (near L.A.).
Thane Baker is a Midwest sprint legend. At the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, he won gold in the 4×1, silver in the 100 (behind Bobby Joe Morrow) and bronze in the 200. On Saturday, at age 78, he showed up for
On a hot day in northern France, Saturday saw a cool masters meet: a dual between French and German teams in the 40-49 and 50-59 age groups. The Eurovets site reports that Germany won the M/W40 dual and France won
Information and entry forms for the XIX Masters Athletics Regional Championship “to be celebrated in the autonomous city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, from the 2nd to the 6th of September, 2010,” are now posted. Here is the website. The home
Logistics are a bitch. A four-day masters championships with hundreds of heats is always a bear to schedule. But add temps in the high 90s, and you have a potential disaster in Sacramento. After the exact time schedule was posted
Lisa Valle of the SoCal Track Club and Lisa Daley of the Central Park Track Club each set records over the weekend, while M70 hammer god Ed Burke and M55 vaulter Charlie Brown rewrote the books as well. California was