When it comes to the hoogspringen, few masters are better than flopper Weia Reinboud. That’s high jump in Dutch, where Weia has been a star for decades. On Friday, at age 65, she cleared 1.38 meters (4-6 1/4). That beats
Five years ago, I posted a series of stories about Douglas Kalembo, a Zambia Olympian who claimed to have set M45 and M50 world records in the 400. But the marks were never ratified. Too many documents turned up saying
A blogger for the Dallas Morning News tells the story of William Moore, 53, who says he’s run a sub-5-minute mile 37 consecutive years. Cool. “The Dallas pediatrician hopes to extend that streak to 38 at the upcoming Luke’s Locker
As I reported on Times of San Diego, the beer mile is moving away from its viral-video roots. On Aug. 22, San Francisco’s Pier 70 will host the first Beer Mile World Classic. It will offer prize money and a
Olga Kotelko, the late W95 superlegend, has been gone almost a year, but she’ll never be forgotten. Two days ago, Bruce Grierson’s TED talk on his book subject was posted on YouTube. He seems to go beyond what he wrote
They cheated! This Canadian 4-by-100 team got a ringer for the relay. IAAF Best Masters Athlete Christa Bortignon of British Columbia, 78, dropped down to the W60 age group to help the Greyhounds Masters Track Club set a national record.
You didn’t see her run, but former masters champion Rose Monday played a key role over the weekend at the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas. Rose was coach of the U.S. women’s team that set a world record in
Albert Gay set an M70 Australian record in the vault a couple weeks ago at his nationals, and he’s profiled in the Daily Telegraph. His jump of 3.00 meters (9-10) is a foot under the listed WR of 3.31, but
I saw a Netflix movie Saturday night about Nicky Vreeland, the grandson of Vogue’s Diana Vreeland. Nicky became a Buddhist and eventually an abbot of an Indian monastery (the Dalai Lama promoted him with giggles.). Nicky first became a monk
A week ago Friday, the 4-by-100 shuttle hurdle relay team of Kerry Sloan, Keith McQuitters, Darnell Gatling and Damon Blakemore beat two other M50 quartets to win the first masters shuttles race ever contested at the Penn Relays. Their time
Belated congrats to our Canadian pals John Hawkins and Doug “Shaggy for Good Reason” Smith, named to the Canadian Masters Athletics Hall of Fame for 2015. We learn: “John Hawkins began competing as a sub-master in 1984, after a career as
Chris ‘Why Won’t They Ratify My M35 400 WR’ Brown ran an amazing 44.76 last weekend at Drake, but that’s still not the best age-group 400 under his belt. The Bahamas veteran clocked 44.59 last year, says IAAF Top Lists.
