Under World Masters Athletics policies, world records set at WMA world meets are automatically recognized without the hoop-jumping required of athletes in other meets. Well, maybe not. According to a post this week on the WMA Web site, Sandy Pashkin
In July 1995, Dale Lance of Oklahoma set a then M55 world record in the decathlon, scoring 8179 points at the WAVA world championships in Buffalo, New York. The previous record holder, Werner Schallau of Germany, bestowed on Dale the
If you live in California, you don’t give earthquakes a second thought. They’re a part of the landscape. But others were a little shaken by recent news reports that scientists predict the near certainty of a Big One in the
Sean Callahan, editor of Masters Athlete magazine, contributed to my Masters Athlete blog entry today, and it expands on my earlier scoop that FerringUSA, the pharmaceutical company behind Euflexxa (the knee arthritis treatment), is sponsoring athletes from Sprint Force America.
David O’Meara You’ve heard of road-aholics who commit themselves to running a marathon a week for 52 weeks, or whatever. That’s so 1990s. Meet mile maniac David O’Meara, 45, of Sarasota, Florida. His new idea: running 20 mile races over
Don Drummond, 38, and David Ashford, 45, will be in adjacent lanes this Sunday when a heat of the men’s 110-meter high hurdles goes off at 1:50 p.m. at the Mt. SAC Relays. For Don, the 42-inch “international” barriers should
I spoke by phone tonight with Nick Newton, a masters superstar in his own right, who confirmed the news I’d received in email from several sources — that Kenny Dennis of Las Vegas had died two weeks ago during a
Johnny Mathis was a prep high jump star in the 1950s before he was a singer of some note. But his annual invitational meet in San Francisco caters to masters milers. On Saturday, Jeff Adkins, 47, won the race in
Ferring features this diagram on its Web site. Sprint Force America, a New York-based masters track club, has found the Holy Grail — a corporate sponsor to underwrite two years of competition at major meets for at least 24 athletes,
Yesterday’s Rafer Johnson/JJK meet at UCLA saw some amazing masters marks, including a legal 11.04 for 100 meters by Willie Gault, apparently not moping about the shutdown of his Aloha Airlines. And Aeron Arlin Genet said aloha to her recent
Bill Collins was world-class in the 1970s, and at age 57 continues to record phenomenal times. Yesterday in his first outdoor race of the year — in Houston at a Texas Southern University quadrangular meet — Bill ran the 100
Stormy and windy weather apparently halted the men’s pole vault yesterday at the Sea Ray Relays in Tennessee — but Paul Babits was there as usual. Paul, the 47-year-old vaulter flirting with 17 feet, “competed in his 30th Sea Ray