Supervet vaulter Jeff Hartwig, who turned 40 in late September, has quit competing for the season, he wrote me today from Arkansas. “Yokohama was miserable,” Jeff writes, “and I took it as a sign that it was time to be
Milt Silverstein is a Penn Relays masters superstar and many-times champion in the sprints and jumps. But in late 2002, he declared his retirement in a letter to National Masters News. Thank goodness he didn’t mean it. (He sat out
Most national champions get a chance to savor their victories. Not Pete Magill. On Sunday, this Southern Californian won the USATF masters 5K cross-country title, clocking the best time of all 40-and-overs despite being 46. His 15:17 (a 4:55 mile
Former USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews, mindful of the heat emergency at Charlotte nationals in 2006, wants to downsize masters nationals (indoors as well) by eliminating the pentathlon. He made this proposal at the 2006 USATF annual meeting in
Sacramento is seeking to host the 2010 USATF masters national outdoor championships — a dry (and hot) run for 2011 worlds. Bob Burns of the Sacramento Sports Commission yesterday confirmed the candidacy of California’s capital: “Yes, we’re bidding for it
Dr. Rodney Brown excelled in events from the sprints through the 800 meters. Older sprinters are mourning one of their own this week. Dr. Rodney Brown, a Utah dentist who won three silver medals in the 400 and 800 at
When I learned that four-time Olympian Jay Silvester had broken the M70 American record in the discus, I was thrilled. So I blogged the news immediately. As the self-appointed masters blabbermouth, I also posted the news on the Track &
Kenny Dennis — a short, softspoken sprinter from Los Angeles — is a local legend with tall worldwide stature. He’s a one-time M50 world record holder in the 200 (22.9) who claimed several WAVA sprint titles in the late 1980s.
The USATF national masters 5K cross country championships were held yesterday in Saratoga Springs, New York. Lots of masters tracksters use this event to spice up their winter training. But I can’t tell you who won — or which teams
Bill Collins has lent his name to the Vaterstettener Declaration, an anti-doping pledge big in Germany. His signature, “done in the presence of Guido Müller, the world’s Senior Athletes of the Year 2004 and author of the Vaterstettener statement,” represents
Remember Robert Madrazo’s attempt at pulling a Rosie Ruiz at the Berlin Marathon? Many stories credited a photographer named Victor Sailer for outing the former Mexican presidential candidate as a course-cutting cheat. Truth be told, a masters track expert in
World Masters Athletics conducts drug tests of a few dozen athletes at its world championships, and the 2007 affair in Riccione was no exception. Lately, stories have circulated that American M40 hurdle champion David Ashford made a comical effort to