Don’t look now, but Haile Gebrselassie is a masters runner! He turned 35 in mid-April. Yesterday at an IAAF meet in Hengelo, Holland, the greatest distance runner in history — seeking a spot on Ethiopia’s Olympic team — took second
Charlie Booth, sprinter Charlie Booth, who sprinted for nine decades and helped invent the modern starting blocks, has died in his native Australia, according to press reports. He was 104. Aussie Athletics reported: “He instinctively put his hand up to
World masters champion Steve Robbins, a famed author of management textbooks, added to his sprints legend yesterday at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. Competing at the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions, Steve tied the listed M65 American record for
If your USATF association operates smoothly, with folks who work together well and share money and power between Youth, Masters and LDR — be grateful. In the Colorado USATF Association, things have gone from bad to worse. Two months after
Alyssa Tower wasn’t the only record-setter May 10 at Western Oregon University. At the same meet where Alyssa cracked 38 minutes in the 10K for a W45 American record, veteran runner Leonard Hill broke the listed M55 American record in
Kurt Goldschmidt of Germany last Sunday bettered the listed M65 world record in the kugelstoss (shot put) during a multi-event competition in Hamburg, reports the Koops’ site. Kurt’s throw of 15.66 meters (51-4 1/2) with the 5-kilogram implement was about
Carmel Papworth-Barnum, an accomplished W40 runner, was making strides as editor of National Masters News this spring. She was climbing a steep learning curve but making monthly improvements in the paper. No more. This month, she was fired as editor.
After radio silence of several days, Julia Dudley Najieb of “T.R.A.C.K. Live!” has reported in, sharing meet results from Las Vegas as well as the roster of masters athletes the reality game show will have in the first of what
Alyssa Tower finishes April’s Race for the Roses in Portland, Oregon. Alyssa Tower of Vancouver, Washington, and Club Northwest turned 45 in late September and in October set herself a tall order: Break the 17-year-old American age-group record in the
“T.R.A.C.K. Live!” may not live this one down. Its opening meet in Las Vegas — an attempt to showcase masters track in a reality game show setting — did no favors for M40 sprinter Tim McCrossen of Cincinnati. He’s feeling
The No. 1 question in masters track is: Where can I compete? The answer to that simple query tells a lot about the state of our sport. If you ask Andy Hecker of Southern California, he’ll tell you that USATF
John Hinton’s hunt for a PR in the M45 1500 continued apace over the weekend, reports Alan Sigmon, a track statistician of note. And with an age-group PR comes a nice bonus: a world record. Alan writes: “At the Nike