Maxwell Springer, who competed as recently as August, suffered a fatal stroke on Sunday, October 11, I’ve been informed. He was 10 days short of 96. This is a great loss to our tribe. Former WMA Vice President Rex Harvey,
Geoff Bramley, my Down Under doppelgänger, has posted 40 videos shot from the stands at the World Masters Games. Click here for a growing list. Many heats of the 100 and 800, plus finals, are up, including some showing folks running
(Oct. 15 update: See comments below for correction to this erroneous post.) Last April, M80 superstar Earl Fee of Canada told Pete Magill the story of a parachutist who’d done about 1,000 jumps, and was asked what he wanted to
Jay Leno, you better watch out. It’s OK to poke fun at centenarian hammer throwers, but if Ruth Frith sees you on the street, she may conk you on the head. Anyway, Jay’s monologue last night featured a clip of
Wanna be a winner? Keep a blog! It worked for Doug “Bubba” Sparks. On Tuesday in Sydney, he took the M55 vault at the World Masters Games with a jump of 4.00 meters (13-1 1/2) and posted a quick comment
World’s best for 2009: Guido and Rita Rita Hanscom of San Diego and Guido Müller of Germany will be honored November 22 at the IAAF Gala in Monte Carlo as WMA Best Masters Athletes of 2009. The Eurovets Web site
Results of the 100-meter finals are posted Down Under, but a big mystery remains: What happened to Britain’s Steve Peters after the M55 100 prelims (where he ran 11.98)? Peters, the M55 world champ from Lahti, had signed up for
Forget the “official” results site. The best way to see real-time results at the Sydney World Masters Games is through a link via the New South Wales page of Aussie masters track. Check out this gateway. Thank goodness for Hi-Tek Meet
Maryline Roux A couple weeks ago, a reporter for the Charlotte Observer called me to learn more about masters track. Tonya Jameson, the reporter, was doing a story on Maryline Roux, a national-class W40 sprinter with a startling goal: competing
Nine days later, we finally have these results from the Club West meet at UC Santa Barbara. They confirm Nadine O’Connor’s 56.11 time in the W65 300 hurdles — a potential American record. But we also see some great late-season
Good ol’ Ruth Frith competed today at the https://www.sages.org/ambien-online/ World Masters Games in Sydney, wowing the gawking media and not taking things too seriously. At 100, she’s seen it all anyway. Here’s her local Brisbane paper’s account. My favorite part
As hinted earlier, throwers went wild at the Nevada Senior Games on October 2. At least two Olympians were in the hammer mix — Ed Burke and Tom Gage. And that was just the M65 group! (See results of the