Posted April 28, 2008 Four years ago, Cornell Stephenson of Los Angeles helped set an M40 world record in the 4×100, joining Speedwest teammates Frank Strong, Kettrell Berry and Willie Gault in a 42.20 clocking at the Steve Scott Invitational
Jack Greenwood, 82, was surprised to learn that someone had broken his M50 world record in the 400 hurdles. Not because he thought the record was that great, but because he didn’t know anyone was still running the event. Tonight
The king is dead. Long live the king. That’s my reaction to news from across the Pond that after 32 years, Jack Greenwood’s untouchable M50 world record in the 400-meter hurdles has fallen. A British-based masters mole sent me the
Jeff Laynes, 37, improved his season best for the 100 by running a legal 10.31 Saturday at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational in Berkeley. He also dropped a wind-aided deuce of 20.92. Aaron Thigpen, 43, clocked a legal 10.93 in the
How often do we see 47-year-olds within spitting distance of Tyson Gay in a sprint race? Like once in history. In the Mt. SAC Relays photo gallery posted here, Willie is shown valiantly pursuing IAAF world sprint champion Tyson on
Jearl Miles-Clark, the four-time Olympian, teamed with Charmaine Roberts, Renee Henderson and Jane Brooker at Penn on Friday to lower the W40 world record in the 4×400. Running as East Coast Masters, the quartet anchored by Jearl ran 3:56.27 against
Meanwhile in Des Moines, Iowa, masters ran the 800 Friday and mile today in bitterly cold and windy weather at the Drake Relays. M45 John Hinton, traveling from North Carolina, easily won the masters mile in 4:26.87 — 10 seconds
Southwest Sprinters TC won the featured masters 4×400 at Penn today, and I mean featured. Unlike some open invitationals than shunt the masters to the earliest hour of the meet, the M40 4×4 took place in the primest of prime
FerringUSA’s sponsorship of Sprint Force America has already paid off. The M70 SFA team of Gary Sims, Wayne Bennett, Larry Colbert and Bob Lida clocked a sensational 51.96 today in the 4×100 relay at Penn to smash the listed age-group
American masters needn’t worry about being drug-tested at domestic meets. USATF has no budget for it. But if lightning strikes while you’re at a WMA world or European masters meet, and you’re asked to relieve yourself in a labeled bottle,
Frank Schiro, a world-class M55 long sprinter, also goes a long way to helping out fellow athletes. In a touching story in this week’s The Villager, we learn: ” ‘Besides preparing for races myself, I coach other people, and with
Down Under, they have the coolest place names. The city of Wollongong in New South Wales (on Australia’s southeast coast) is one of them. And its top female masters athlete may be W45 sprinter Marie Kay. And cool is what