Atlanta Olympian Jeff Williams is 41 now — and ready for some masters competition. He’ll get it Sunday at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, California. Even though his 200 PR from 1996 is 19.87 (and he’s still in the
Elliott Almond of the San Jose Mercury-News has written an obituary of Lad Pataki that gives masters their due. Amazing. The M-word appears no fewer than four times in the online version of the obit. (Tomorrow’s print version may be
Sprinters and fieldfolk, stop reading now. This one is for long-distance runners who thought they might want to compete at Riccione worlds as well as the WMA 100-kilometer championships. Think again. They’re being held at the same time! Annette’s Seite
Wearing street shoes, Mike Castellucci of Channel 8 News in Arlington, Texas, huffs and puffs but can’t keep up with M70 sprinter Wayne Bennett on the University of Texas-Arlington track in a cutesy clip that lasts almost 2 minutes. It
John Hinton of North Carolina ran 15:00.39 to win a munchkin-laden 5000 meters Friday at the Duke Invitational at Durham, N.C. Track photographer Cheryl Treworgy, a witness, writes: “With three laps to go, John was 10 seconds behind the leader
Marie-Louise Michelsohn shattered the listed world outdoor record for 10,000 meters Saturday by more than 30 seconds at the freezing USATF Tennessee Assn. Masters Championships. Marie-Louise ran 43:06.12 — 6:56 mile pace — to beat the old record of 43:37.20
German high jumper Thomas Zacharias, who retired and then came back a few years ago, is closing in on an incredible feat — 6 feet at age 60. In recent weeks, he’s cleared 1.77 (5-9 3/4) and 1.78 (5-10) for
On a pea-soup foggy morning at San Francisco State University, 43-year-old Jeff Mann of Reno, Nevada, ran like a red-hot chili pepper to win the masters mile Saturday, reports Michael Fanelli, event maestro. Mike writes: “Some of 2007’s top 40+
A couple weeks ago, as Lad Pataki was struggling with brain cancer, thrower and former USATF Masters T&F Chairman George Mathews sent a note to Lad via Lad’s close friend, Ed Burke. George wrote: “I have just returned from the
Olympian Ed Burke has shared this sad news: “It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of our friend and comrade in sport, Dr. Ladislav Pataki. A memorial will be held on Wednesday , April
Bill Murray, a world-class M50 decathlete and high jumper, gives us a heads up on the Web home of this summer’s USATF National Masters Decathlon/Heptathlon Championships. The event is June 9-10 at Spain Park High School in Hoover, Alabama. Bill
Anyone who’s ever seen Ben James run the quarter knows he’s tough. We didn’t know the half of it. While others were sweltering in Charlotte last August, he was sweating his own mortality — having just learned he had non-Hodgkins
