Dang! Gérard Dumas did it! Overcoming age and injury, Gérard, 72, competed in the pole vault for the 1,000th time July 4 at the Tacoma Beach Vault, reports his Canadian friend Roger Ruth. “Unfortunately, he pulled his right gastrocnemius in
Jim Sorensen ran a sub-4:05 mile this afternoon at the Pro Men’s Mile exhibition at the USA Youth nationals in the Chicago suburb of Lisle, Illinois. Great effort. A new American record, too, as his 4:04.98 lowers his own 4:05.27
Entries are now listed for the WMA World Masters Athletic Championships in Riccione, Italy! Go to this entry page, and check out the options. You can search by name, event, sex, nationality or age group — or any combo thereof.
Complete results of the Italian masters nationals are in, and my Italian masters friend Rosa Marchi also sent a link to a list of age-group champions at the Milan nationals. Rosa points out that the short sprints were run into
Forget Orono and Riccione. To the general reader, the only masters event that matters is wrapping up in Louisville, Kentucky — the National Senior Olympics. On the same day that the IOC announced plans for winter and summer Games for
Carmel on wedding day (click for shot with Larry). Carmel Papworth-Barnum is busy. A relatively new bride to M60 middle-distancer Larry Barnum, she and hubby are moving into a new home while training for Orono masters nationals. But she took
The San Diego Track Club has posted results from last Saturday’s Chuck McMahon Memorial Masters meet in San Marcos, California. I’ve already noted Nadine O’Connor’s 100 WR and 200 wind-aided mark and that James Lofton ran the 400 (in 54.48,
Phil Raschker would be the W60 world record holder at 200 meters if not for a brutal headwind yesterday at the National Senior Olympics in Louisville. In her age group’s final, Phil ran an amazing 29.27 into a 3.1 meters-per-second
Yes! Thanks to a world record at 800 meters and an American mile record, Jim Sorensen today was selected USATF Athlete of the Week. He’s in pretty fast company. The previous week’s AOTW was Tyson Gay, star of the Indy
Mike Rouse was elected president of the San Diego-Imperial USATF Association last September to great hopes. He even talked about bringing masters nationals back to San Diego, where the movement started in the late 1960s. That’s all moot now. Mike
James Lofton knew he had a stress fracture in his right foot Saturday when he toed the line in the 400 at Chuck McMahon. By the 250-meter mark, he KNEW he’d pushed the envelope. He hobbled home in around 54
Every five years, Phil Raschker ratchets up for her new age group. Now 60, the Masters Hall of Famer continued her record assault today in the W60 finals of the 400 at the National Senior Olympics. Her time of 66.69