I used to consider him the Darth Vader of masters track. But Germany’s Dieter Massin, former president of the Eurovets, puts on a great track meet. It was his Stendal meet that yielded Weia Reinboud’s W65 world record in the
Throwing the 500-gram javelin, Weia Reinboud of Holland destroyed two heptathlon world records over the weekend, adding a WR of 1.40 (4-7) in her specialty the high jump for good measure. Competing at the Stendaler Hanse Cup multi-event meet in
Today (Monday) is the last day to enter Lyon worlds. USATF site says: “The official deadline is June 2, 2015 (11:59 pm UTC+1), or midnight in France; in the USA the cutoff time ranges from early morning to late afternoon
In her first outdoor race of 2015, Hall of Famer Irene Obera ran the 80-meter hurdles in a wind-legal 19.14 Sunday at the USATF Pacific Association Masters Championships in Hayward — across the bay from San Francisco. That beats her
My wife the photographer discovered a shooter’s paradise Saturday in San Diego — a biathlon event at the U.S. Police and Fire Championships. Cops and firefighters run three miles and stop twice to discharge service pistols at a human-likeness target.
Breaking a Merlene Ottey record is no small potatoes. Holding a meet for a quarter-century is pretty snazzy, too. But Rochelle Stevens is a pretty nifty lady. As USATF detailed Friday, “Celebrating a successful 25 years of her namesake track
Steve Prefontaine died 40 years ago Friday. Oregon papers are going crazy with retrospectives. I get it. He was a great athlete with great quotes and great iconoclast attitudes. He was funny. Wore a “Stop Pre” T-shirt. But would he
Bridget Cushen, secretary of the British Masters Athletics Federation and longtime correspondent for National Masters News, has been involved in track since the early 1960s, and recalls how in her day the longest event for women was 800 meters (880
Kathy Bergen grew up long before Dick Fosbury came along, but her W75 world record jump Saturday at Orange Coast College shows how she’s mastered the flop. Her fast approach run of only 7-8 steps culminates with a great takeoff
The ideally named John Goldhammer, who won the masters exhibition hammer at Mt. SAC a month ago, followed that up with an M60 American record in the superweight — 44 pounds. That’s according to a video posted May 20. It
The 42nd annual Southern California Striders Meet of Champions is in the books. Weather was in the upper 60s and low 70s at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa — Orange County, California. Most of the shots in our photo
Kathy Bergen provided the highlight of Saturday’s Southern California Striders 42nd annual Meet of Champions. On a day when headwinds of 2-3 mps hampered sprinters, she cleared 1.21 meters (3-11 3/4) on her first try to break the listed W75
