The best online roster of athletes ever seen in World Masters Athletics is now posted — a searchable database of entrants at the Linz world indoor meet in mid-March. You can search by an athlete’s name, nation, age group or
Mary Rosado is an all-purpose event organizer. She helped assemble the masters women’s 4×4 relays at tomorrow night’s Millrose Games and is listed as a member of the Central Park Track Club quartet running in the prestigious meet. But don’t
Robert and Annette Koop are reporting that a British athlete tested positive for illegal performance-enhancing drugs at the San Sebastian world meet last summer — and not a German as previously speculated. The athlete is male, I was told a
Germany is sending nearly 900 athletes to the second World Masters Indoor Championships, starting the Ides of March in Linz, Austria. That’s nearly a third of all athletes entered at Linz. German-American Phil Raschker shared a roster PDF detailing the
After Indiana coach Paul Babits cleared an indoor world M45 world record at Reno last weekend (15-9), I shot him a note with a few queries about the National Pole Vault Summit experience: What was your height progression? What kind
Paul Suzuki officiated at events other than masters track, of course. It was at the USATF national open championships last year where he was killed by a shot during warmups. But he was well-known on the Southern California masters circuit
USATF has posted an event-by-event list (link fixed 2/01/06) of the 90-plus American entrants in the Linz world masters indoor championships. The list comes in a second flavor — with athletes listed alphabetically. Looks as if Bill Collins is entered
It doesn’t take a lawyer to get a world record ratified, but it helps. Attorney Bruce McBarnette isn’t shy about letting the world know of his high jump exploits, and he says a record application is in the works, writing
The old slur is “Those who can’t, teach.” That doesn’t apply to Coach Paul Babits of Indiana. Paul, who guides aspiring stickjumpers at his camps in Fort Wayne, just turned 45. And over the weekend, Paul cleared 4.80 (15-9) for
Jim Barrineau isn’t M45 anymore, but he knows a good jump in that age group when he sees one. He wrote today: “Watched Bruce McBarnette jump 1.95m for a new 45-49 Indoor World record today in Landover, MD, with room
A two-day pole vault competition held in a Reno hotel ballroom wrapped up tonight, but masters results are hard to come by. In previous years, Nadine O’Connor and Bud Held have set or threatened masters age-group records there. This year,
A British M35 runner got some ink in his local paper, the first of potentially hundreds of stories about masters preparing for the World Masters Indoor Championships in Linz, Austria. America’s 90-plus entrants at Linz are due some publicity, too.
