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W55 distancer Silke Schmidt of Germany and M50 middle-distance great David Heath of Great Britain have been named World Best Masters Athletes of 2015 by World Masters Athletics, according to a posting Monday on the Eurovets website. Kurt Kaschke, EMA

Jen Freemas of the San Francisco Coyotes competed in the same Texas meet where Dave Burton claimed an M45 American record in the decathlon. Turns out her decathlon mark is being reviewed for an AR as well. She’s 36, so

Can anyone read figures in French? The European Masters Games track meet ended a couple days ago in Nice, France. Results are here. But after I collated daily results PDFs (because the meet site is a miserable mess), I poked

Rarotonga is the most populous of the Cook Islands, with a little over 10,000 souls. Saturday is the final day of the five-day Oceania Masters Athletics Championships (a WMA regional meet) in Rarotonga and a Kiwi newspaper had the gall

Dave Burton isn’t new to the dec, it turns out. After posting news of how he broke Rex Harvey’s 24-year-old American record, I sought more details. He graciously responded. He ran at CSU Northridge as a freshman and sophomore and

Last year at Wake Forest nationals, David Burton of Morro Bay, California, won four events at age 44 — the 110 hurdles in 15.86, pole vault at 4.27 (14-0), javelin at 45.25 (148-5) and long jump at 5.92 (19-5). You

Miki Gorman, a member of the inaugural 1996 Class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, died Sept. 19 in Bellingham, Washington, her daughter reported Tuesday in a blog post. She was 80. Miki is being remembered as a pioneering

Oregon’s Sandy Pashkin was elected president of the North and Central America & Caribbean WMA Region the morning of Aug. 10, 2012, in Room 326, Hazen Hall, at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. A WMA regional meet

W40 Beth Burton is a former track All-American at Cal State Northridge and has coached at Chico State and a high school. But she doesn’t appear to be throwing her old discus and shot. Instead she heaves trees and rocks.

Michelle Xiao was a Nebraska state Junior Olympic 200-meter hurdles champion who attended my archrival high school in Omaha (Westside). I went to Burke my senior year. Now she’s a soccer midfielder as a Stanford freshman. But she’ll never forget