M40 sprinter Rachid Chouhal of Malta had a busy year in 2015. He competed in the European Indoor Athletics Championships (the open meet) and also Lyon worlds. He didn’t do so hot against the pups in Prague, taking 35th of
My Striders teammate Greg Pizza, 62, reveals in National Masters News that he’s facing a four-year drug ban after testing positive for testosterone at Jacksonville nationals in July. (He was tapped after taking third in the 100.) In a Times
Glyn Sutton ran an amazing 200 to win one of his three M70 golds at Lyon. He clocked 26.47 (a time I haven’t seen since about age 44.) On Saturday, he notched another WR, this time at a meet in
Hooboy. On top of the National Senior Games, the World Masters Games and other regional meets like the Americas Masters Games 2016 in Vancouver, add another upstart: the USA Masters Games. I wasn’t aware of this until Monday night. Saw
Bill Collins didn’t expect to break his friend and Houston Elite teammate’s indoor world record for 200 meters a couple weekends ago. But Charles Allie’s M65 mark fell anyway at Texas A&M — in 25.25 seconds out of lane 2.
Lapping a runner on the last of eight circuits, Mark Williams conquered a storm-weakened field Saturday to win the M40 elite race of the 49th Hartshorne Masters Mile at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Clocking 4:33.04, Mark, 43, stretched
Masters Hall of Famer Bill Collins quietly turned 65 in late November. But he made a big noise on Jan. 16 at a Texas A&M indoor meet, lowering the world record for 200 meters held by his friend Charles Allie.
Aaron Yoder once ran the equivalent of a 4:13 mile at Fort Hays State, but didn’t really attain four-lap glory until this week, when he posted a video of a mile he ran in 5:54.25. Backwards. At age 30, on
As Peter Taylor noted in comments, John Trautmann’s M45 indoor mile of a year ago is listed as an American record but not a world record. But M55 Anselm LeBourne, who also beat a listed WR indoor mile (twice), isn’t
Did Frederick Monesmith jump 1.65 meters (5-5) on Jan. 16? Probably not, since 1.65 would beat the listed American record of 1.62 by the legendary Jim Gilchrist. (And Fred has another listed jump of 1.22 (4-0), also on mastersrankings.com. No
In an amazing story out of the UK, we learn how W55 star Sue Frisby won the Lyon heptathlon bronze despite diabetes. “Competing in seven events over two days is grueling by anyone’s standards, but Sue had the constant pressure
Joe Biden, get a cancer cure. We’ve just learned of another victim. Our California sprinter-jumper friend Fei-Mei Chou, returning home from Taiwan, reports that she’s been diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. “It has spread and there will not be
