Today is the final day of the 15th European Veterans Athletic Championships, and EVAA statmeister Ivar Söderlind of Sweden has found 10 world age-group records set in this meet in Poznan, Poland. He writes: “After seven days of the European
Henry Rono’s comeback proceeds apace. And it’s being detailed in public on the letsrun.com message board, with Henry piping in occasionally. A couple weeks ago, he wrote to an eyewitness who praised his training: “It is nice of you to
Results took a back seat to tragedy this week at the Eurovets track meet, Pete Mulholland reports from Poznan, Poland. A groundsman was killed when a storage building collapsed near the throwing area on the rest day, Tuesday. A W45
Canada’s Ed Whitlock, famed for his post-70 sub-3-hour marathons, tried a relative sprint tonight in Windsor, Ontario (across the river from Detroit), clocking an amazing 5:41.80 at age 75. That shatters the listed M75 world record of 5:57.2 by American
USATF’s news release on the upcoming masters nationals counts 10 Olympians (don’t call them “former Olympians”) entered at Charlotte. The latest discovery is M45 distancer John Tuttle, entered in the 5K and 10K. He was on the 1984 team for
Can a country host a world masters meet without bidding for it? That’s the case here, I guess. WMA President Cesare Beccalli of Italy and Brazil is reported to be making a strong case for Brazil to host the 2011
On the eve of the USATF masters nationals in North Carolina, the latest count is 10 Olympians entered, but the Eurovets meet in Poland can boast the oldest Olympian — 97-year-old Alfred Proksch of Austria, who tied for sixth in
Actually, M60ish scribe Pete Mulholland is as likely to race M55 sprinter Bill Collins as I am to high jump 7 feet. But I asked British photographer Lesley Richardson to share a photo of Pete, so you can see what
The eastern town of Dieppe, New Brunswick, hosted the Canadian masters nationals this past weekend, and I’ve copy-pasted results (below) from the Canadian Masters Athletics site. Ed Whitlock’s (listed as Witlock) amazing M75 distance records are here as well as
Now we’re cooking. USATF has posted rosters of all entrants at the Charlotte masters nationals, which starts a week from tomorrow. (Ohmygod! I better get into shape!) It’s not the Status of Entries site (which takes time to navigate), but
To masters throwers, Brian Oldfield is some kind of god. He’s the only man over 40 to put the 16-pound shot over 70 feet. That was back in 1985. Since then, his body has gone south, and now he uses
This is weird. Without even consulting delegates, World Masters Athletics President Cesare Beccalli has basically promised the 2011 World Masters Outdoor Championships to Brazil (where he lives part of the year with his Brazilian-born wife). The 2009 world meet will
