Charmaine Roberts drew Lane 6 for the masters women’s 400 exhibition at the Boston open nationals last Sunday. Lane 5 was empty. That’s understandable, since Alisa Harvey had scratched to focus on the open 800 finals. Charmaine made the most
Olympic champ Maria Mutola is still near the top of her game, the 800, but she told the IAAF she’s bound and determined to hang up her spikes, even though she’s only 35. So be it. But it’s cool that
Britain’s Fran Scott, a 49-year-old sprinter, was fighting liver cancer when I noted his struggle last September. Last Sunday, he died, according to an email message sent by UK Masters Team Manager Maurice Doogan. “I cannot say more, than to
My masters moles remind me that it’s not the America Wide Web. Records are falling across The Pond as well. Word arrived yesterday of a wonderful W50 world indoor record for 3,000 meters. Spanish masters champion Aurora Perez ran the
Congrats to Kamloops! Canadian and WMA brass have confirmed what we telegraphed earlier: Kamloops, British Columbia, will host the 4th World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships. The dates are March 1-6, 2010, according to Brian Keaveney, head of the Canadian Masters
Paul Babits, 47, vaulted 5.14 meters (16-10 1/4) indoors at the Brenda Lee pole vault meet yesterday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, according to a posting (probably by Paul) on mastersrankings.com. This would shatter his own M45 world indoor record of
Running in the rain, Joe King, 81, clocked a mile Saturday in 7:13.25. That beats the listed M80 world record of 7:16.16 by Canada’s Hans Weickhardt in 1994 and the listed AR of 7:36.55 by John Hosner in 2006. However,
According to German runner Annette Koop’s blog, Kamloops, British Columbia, will bid to host the fourth World Masters Indoor Championships in 2010. It would be the first WMA indoor worlds outside Europe (following 2004 Sindelfingen, Germany; 2006 Linz, Austria; and
With her sixth-place finish in the 800 final today at open nationals, Alisa Harvey broke her day-old W40 American indoor record by a few tenths, clocking 2:05.75 and improving her chances of competing in her fifth Olympic Trials. The Boston
Alisa Harvey qualified by time this afternoon for tomorrow’s 800 finals at the AT&T USA Indoor Track Championships in Boston. She ran 2:06.08 to again lower her own W40 indoor American record. More important, she ducked under the “B” qualifying
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What a birthday present! On the day she turned 61, Phil Raschker yesterday learned that for the second time in five years, she’s a finalist for the highest honor America bestows on amateur athletes: the AAU Sullivan Award. And this