Here’s a trick question: Who’s the world’s best masters vaulter at the moment? You thunk Jeff Hartwig? Well, thunk again. M40 Jeff isn’t even No. 2! According to the IAAF Top List, Tim Lobinger of Germany, who turned 35 last
Last November, I wrote about the grievance battle inside the Colorado USATF association. I have no clue how this was resolved, but folks have noticed a change on the association Web site: The grievance posting has been deleted. Vanished without
Today Chris and I celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary. We got hitched the same year as Chuck & Di (across the Pond in a slightly bigger ceremony). But we’re still going strong. Chuck & Di? Don’t ask. But since this
M50 sprinter Tom Phillips is an exceptional sports photographer in England who writes well, too. Recently he shared a link on our Forum to an article he wrote for the UK masters magazine. It’s posted below. The article recounts the
Dave MacEachern of Canada’s Prince Edward Island won bobsled gold at the Nagano Winter Olympics 10 years ago, and this article in his local paper says he’s keen to enter age-group meets: “MacEachern . . . plans to whip himself
Masters men’s winner Sean Wade, women’s champ Jody Hawkins and a cast of hundreds are featured in my photo gallery of last Saturday’s USA national cross country championships in San Diego, just 20 minutes from my home. I also got
Doug Thompson’s SISU 800-meter Challenge event in Arizona has returned to a $500 first prize after briefly promoting a $650 prize for the top age-graded runner. Why? It appears that offering a prize over $500 might force his meet to
Several weeks ago, I was informed of a masters exhibition hurdle race planned for the Modesto Relays in California. The genesis of the event was former Olympic decathlon champ Dan O’Brien’s interest in setting an M40 world record in the
Kay Glynn turned 55 just four days before setting her age-group’s indoor WR in the vault this month. But that’s just the latest chapter in a remarkable story. She’s a dance teacher and grandmother of two who dreams of doing
mastershistory.org contains thousands of pages of material in PDF format, dating to the earliest days of the masters track movement. Until this month, if you wanted to read back issues of David Pain’s legendary USMITT newsletters, you had to journey
Allen Johnson, who turns 37 on March 1, tonight won the 60-meter hurdles at the elite Tyson invite in Arkansas, clocking 7.60 seconds. That’s just off his own M35 American indoor record of 7.54, which he did last weekend in
Anthony Treacher, the banned-in-2006 Briton, jumped in the Swedish masters indoor nationals last Saturday and broke the listed UK M65 indoor record in the long jump. His mark of 4.79 (15-8 1/2) pipped Tony Bateman’s 4.77, set in February 2003