Meet director Mark Zeug of the Hawaii masters nationals reports that he’s pushing University of Hawaii officials to return the $25 cleaning deposits due several hundred masters athletes who stayed in the dorms at the meet a month ago. When
David Pain will dissolve in agony when he hears about this: official medal counts at the WMA world meet. Thirty years ago, at the first World Masters Track & Field Championships in Toronto, the founders of what would become the
Well, you can’t judge a meet by its Web site. Despite the hyperprofessional gloss of an outsourced results page, the local organizers of the World Masters Athletics Championships that concluded today in San Sebastian lived up to fears of a
Now THIS was a clash of the TJ titans. Willie Banks, at the age of 49, today nearly matched his masters best (set in 2001) but lost by almost six inches to the current M45 triple jump record holder —
New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast are home to many masters track athletes, and their current ordeal is beyond belief. With the power out to many places, it’s hard to make contact with these folks. But I
Why did Torsten Carlius resign his WMA presidential post three days before being term-limited out of office? Here’s an explanation from fellow Swede Ivar Söderlind: “Torsten Carlius resigned because some ‘expert’ in WMA rules was of the opinion that he
Not sure what to make of this. But the Eurovets Web site sez: “All of a sudden Torsten Carlius resigned! Three days before the General Assembly on Tuesday August 30 the acting WMA-President resigned. He published these news during the
Cesare Beccalli of Italy defeated Stan Perkins of Australia today for the presidency of World Masters Athletics when the General Assembly of WMA voted 66 to 55 in favor of Beccalli, who also was president in the 1990s. Beccalli succeeds
Jan Voigt, an M50 thrower entered at the current San Sebastian world masters meet, tested positive for illegal doping at the German masters nationals this year, according to a report by Annette’s Seite, the German masters track source online. Apparently
George Mathews, the pride of Idaho hammer throwers, is off to a nice start at San Sebastian. Yesterday he won the M60 weight throw (20 pounds) with a consistent series topped by a toss of 19.84 meters — 65-1 1/4.
Pete Mundle is the god of masters track statisticians. Starting in the 1970s, this Southern California distance runner began documenting single-age records for nearly all ages — grade-schoolers to geezers. After a while, his annual Masters Age Records booklets focused
Forget Gerry Lindgren. Here’s the REALLY cool stuff — dozens of videos of masters tracksters (and some fieldsters) in action at the USATF masters nationals in Hawaii. (Plus an oldie from Eugene 2003.) Forgive the herky-jerky quality. I hope to
