The Rocky Mountain Masters Games over the weekend in Fort Collins, Colorado, produced some great marks, including a 5.10 vault (16-8 3/4) by 41-year-old Pat Manson, the former world-class athlete now entering masters events. (Meet results are here.) Perhaps the
Here’s a trivia question: Who holds the W60 world record for 5,000 meters? We’re talking the standard outdoor track 5K — none of this roadie nonsense. Easy, you say. Just saunter over to the WMA records page for women. Voila:
Jerry LeVasseur competed at the National Senior Games last month — as he has for nearly 20 years. But unlike other athletes, he will soon have a place at the table. He will join the NSGA board as its only
Dexter McCloud, an M45 hurdler from Georgia, helped Stephanie Hightower get elected president of USATF last winter in Reno. Now he’s helping Stephanie get up to speed on issues raised by Anselm LeBourne’s masters athlete advocacy group, launched in Lahti. In a note
USATF throws maven Jerry Bookin-Weiner sends word of two online photo albums from the masters national throws championships in Portland, Oregon. He writes: “There are a couple of guys in the UWP album whose names I didn’t know. Someone please
Vincenzo Felicetti, an M60 sprinter from Italy, won three gold medals at Lahti worlds. Now he wants to win something else: more support for Italian masters from his national federation. In Anselm LeBourne’s latest note about the U.S. masters advocacy
In August 2008 — a year ahead of the National Senior Games — Dr. David Janson of Ohio, an M55 sprinter, began writing to NSG officials about the 2009 meet schedule, seeking info for travel planning. Later, he became concerned about the
While poking around the IAAF Top Lists for notable masters marks, I came across a previously unreported high jump of 2.31 (7-7) for Serbia’s Dragutin Topic, now 38. This beats the listed world age-group record of 2.27 (by Dragutin on 7/7/07)
Gary Snyder, national masters chairman of USATF, sent this note today: “I thought it would be helpful to provide an update on the NSG situation. I was informed that the meet was not sanctioned last week by Sandy Pashkin, who
Ken Weinbel was the USATF Masters Track and Field Committee chairman in the late 1990s, and he took a lot of guff (from me) in a day when I wasn’t up to speed on his powers and organizational limits. But
Flo Meiler and Don Pellmann came away from this month’s National Senior Games pleased and proud — both having broken world records in the pole vault for their age groups. In Palo Alto, Flo went 6-7 at age 75 and
Richard Rubenis of the Telford AC may have been the shortest M35 sprinter at Lahti. But he must have felt 9 feet tall after anchoring Britain to the 4×4 gold medal at the world masters championships this month. The love