If it’s news, it’s news to me. Especially German masters news. On Wednesday, I learned of a German masters track website, whose title translates as “magazine for senior athletics.” Use the Chrome browser to see it translated into English. The
Kudos to NBC Sports for correcting its earlier, erroneous report that the 105-year-old Japanese gent was the fastest and oldest M105 sprinter on earth. In this post, writer Nick Zaccardi says: “Hidekichi Miyazaki may have been presented with a Guinness
Quaffing a bottle of Sleeman’s Honey Cream Ale every quarter-mile, Jim Finlayson of Victoria, British Columbia, crushed the beer mile world record for “supermasters” — age 40-plus — Saturday in his hometown. He ran 5:01.24, which is pretty good without
SoCal Track Club coach Mark Cleary, who oversees the winningest masters track club in America, recalls teammate Leland McPhie with fondness and admiration. Leland died three weeks ago at 101, and Mark graciously provided this tribute. Mark writes: “It was
José Luis López Camarena of Mexico is a superb M65 race walker. He won Lyon gold in the 10K and 20K walks and silver in the 5K walk. (He also ran a leg on a 4×400, dropping down to the
The listed W65 world record in the throws pentathlon is 4411 by Inge Faldager of Denmark, but Margaret Tomanek of Belgium scored 4599 at Lyon worlds. Yet Inge has a pending mark of 4634 from a May meet. Forget all
Don Pellmann broke another barrier Thursday. He became the first M100 track star named USATF Athlete of the Week. And he had competition — Molly Huddle and David Torrence among them. (But he didn’t compete in seven events as news
Hidekichi Miyazaki, the “Golden Bolt” of masters track, lost his M100 100-meter world record Sunday to Don Pellmann but showed his fitness Wednesday by running the race in 42.22 a day after his birthday, according to an explosion of media
USATF leadership has chosen world-record setters and Lyon champions Irene Obera and Anselm LeBourne as nominees for the year’s top award — IAAF Best Masters, I’ve learned. But it’s up to WMA regional brass, led by Sandy Pashkin, on whether
Nice treat for old Don. More media attention is coming, including ABC’s national evening news Tuesday — about 6:30 p.m. in various time zones. Not bad to share spotlight with the pope! (But no promises on story being aired. Stuff
In the run-up to Don Pellmann’s date with destiny, I had a secret hope that we might see another kind of history made at the San Diego Senior Olympics — the first-ever competition between two M100s. San Diego’s Leland McPhie
Amazing all witnesses, Don Pellmann set five world age-group records Sunday — and became the oldest man to high jump and long jump in competition. At 100, he also smashed the 100-meter-dash world record by nearly 3 seconds and crushed
