Pete Magill’s bid for some M45 middle-distance world records have gotten the most attention, but an M65 spearchucker stole the spotlight on the first day of the two-day Hayward Masters Classic at Eugene, Oregon. The
The clock is ticking on WMA. Today in Indianapolis, Willie Gault ran the fastest 100 meters ever by an M45, clocking 10.72 with a legal wind of 1.0 meters per second, and beat a field of M40s to boot. Now
Jeff Laynes, 35, made it to the semifinals of the men’s 100 at the USATF Open nationals today in Indianapolis, running 10.29 in a heat that saw Justin Gatlin go 10.02 with a 0.4 mps aiding wind. Jeff ran 10.17
Legal action, together with a cane taken to someone’s conscience, has led the Hayward Masters Classic to let Zell Brook run this weekend. Last year, the 59-year-old Corvallis woman, who is legally blind, was barred from competing in some middle-
Finally — some imagination in a masters nationals. Gordon Edwards, director of the upcoming USATF nationals in North Carolina, says he’s lining up some celebrity presenters – including several Olympians — for the awards stand as well as providing dozens
Willie Gault, Stan Whitley, Doug Smith, Kathy Bergen, Greg Pizza, Jim Selby and others are shown in a small batch of shots that I took Saturday at Moorpark College (before and between my own events.) Many of these folks drove
Merlene Ottey ran with the wind Sunday, clocking a maximum legal breeze (2.0 mps) 200 in 23.97 seconds in Donnas at the “Via col vento” (Go with the wind) meeting, reports Rosa Marchi, an Italian masters sprint champion. That demolishes
How good is M45 sprinter Willie Gault? At Saturday’s SoCal Association masters championship, he is credited with a legal 11.07 after a stumbling start. A week before facing some hot M40s at the Indy USATF open meet (in a masters
I’ll take an interest in soccer when Pele announces he’s taking up the pole vault. Enough said. But that’s not the only event going on these days. In San Diego this weekend, police and firefighters from around the Western United
A message thread on letsrun.com reports that Henry Rono, the former Kenyan distance great who lives in the United States, is in training with hopes of breaking the masters mile record for the M55 group next year. He turns 55
Good ol’ polevaultpower.com reports another masters vault record. This one is by John Altendorf, whose jump was reported as 3.91 meters (12-10), bettering the the listed WMA world record of 3.90 by Germany’s Herbert Schmidt in 1971 (the oldest masters
Jon Mulkeen of Athletics Weekly, author of the story on Carl Lewis’ comeback intentions, has sent me a longer version of his April report. This one gives important hints on Carl’s comeback plans — namely that he might shoot for
