A spot was empty in the women’s 4×4 at tonight’s 100th Millrose Games. New Jersey’s Shore Athletic Club was, as promised, not allowed to compete. Results show the winners as Athena Track Club. The Nike Central Park Track Club, which
Four months ago, I noted Roger Kingdom’s challenge to post-40 hurdlers: Let’s see who’s the greatest masters timber topper. Today I learned that he’s added some other masters events to his April 21 meet in Pennsylvania, where he coaches the
In June 2005, the wires were agog about a Japanese geezersprinter named Kozo Haraguchi. He ran 100 meters in 22.04 seconds — a world age-group record by 2 seconds! (And in the rain!) Now I’ve finally seen the performance. He
Mark Cleary, Wendi Glassman and others have been carrying on a lively debate about whether Shore AC’s entry in the Millrose Games 4×4 relay is kosher. But many questions are still hanging, most notably: Will the Shore AC masters women
Merlene Ottey had a bad race at the Moscow Winter Meeting over the weekend. Her blocks slipped in a qualifying heat, and she ran “only” 7.54 seconds at age 46. (According to the Associated Press, Ottey blamed the starter, saying:
Last week’s Thursday Night at the Races at the NYC Armory saw three potential distance records — not just the one by Kathy Martin mentioned here earlier. Kathy crushed the listed W55 world and American indoor records for 3000 meters
In late December, the word went out: The 100th Millrose Games would have two events for masters -â menâs and womenâs 4×400 relays. Clubs were urged to enter, and fast! Among the womenâs teams answering the call was Shore Athletic
A couple weeks back, I posted news of a W60 world indoor record at 60 meters by Val Parsons in the UK. At the time, Val wrote a friend: ” ‘I hope that it will be ratified for record purposes.
When you ask Jeff Hartwig to jump, the 39-year-old vault champ says, “How high?” That also applies to his willingness to help fellow jumpers. Today at the Boston Reebok Indoor Games (site of indoor masters nationals), Australia’s Steven Hooker showed
Olympian Joan Nesbit Mabe, a scholar of distance running, continues to make history herself. A week after turning 45, Joan returned to the University of North Carolina, her alma mater, this weekend and blistered a mile in 5:04.74. That beat
Typical of a 400-meter man, Anthony Treacher is hanging in there. Treacher, the British ex-pat handed a year’s suspension on ridiculous grounds, has taken his fight to the next level. He’s written to two dozen leaders of World Masters Athletics,
Kathyrn Martin’s time for the indoor mile Jan. 11 has now been posted. According to the New York Road Runners site: “Kathy Martin’s world record in the mile (was) the highlight (of the Armory all-comers meet).” But no sooner we
