Allen Woodard, a recent national indoor champion at 200, became the oldest man to go sub-50 for 400 meters after clocking a magnificent 49.69 Saturday at the 33rd Annual Victor Lopez Classic at Rice University in Houston. Allen is 46.
The Penn Relays have been good to geezers — with 100s, 4×1 and 4×4 relays in prime time, plus the crowd favorite over-75 men’s sprint race on Saturday, April 25. But something was missing: a shuttle hurdle relay for masters.
So what makes Kim Collins such a sprint guru? Well, everything. He’s fast and long-lived and will appear in his fifth Olympics at the rate he’s going. He has the three fastest indoor 60 times this season at age 38.
So Darren Scott thinks he’s hot by running an M45 world indoor record in the deuce? Let’s see him beat Charles Eugster’s time in 50 years. Yes, the Web sensation (via viral video) also set an indoor WR at 200
Portland’s Dave Clingan shares a reminder: “The Oregon Masters Mile will be held this year on June 14 at the Lewis & Clark College track in Portland, Oregon. The exact time of the mile race will be announced as soon
Darren Scott set an M45 world indoor record for 200 meters at the Eurovets meet last week in Torun, Poland. Kenton Brown set an M70 indoor WR in the 60 at Winston-Salem nationals. Through the magic of the interwebs, I
Everyone knows 3:54.9 masters miler Bernard Lagat. He sets an M40 record pretty much every time he steps on a track (or road). Now meet Anne Garrett, who set a world record in the road 5K Sunday. Wife and I
Five-time Olympian Amy Acuff, approaching her 40th birthday in July, is set to make a run for the IAAF Beijing world championships team after clearing 1.88 (6-2) Saturday at the Texas Relays. How confident was she after winning the event
After 18 months, the dream of posting all early issues of National Masters News is realized. On Friday, I added the years 1986 through 1999 to the searchable PDF archive on mastershistory.org. See it here. (I also uploaded the missing
M50 WR man Roald Bradstock handed his iPhone 6 to a Florida bystander this week and the result is below. He did a standing javelin throw. I wrote for details, and he graciously supplied some, including the distance, about 54
John Whittemore was six weeks short of 105 when I saw him set an M100 javelin record in Santa Barbara in 2004. Until this week, I considered him the oldest track athlete in history. No more. Stanislaw Kowalski has set
With no other major meet to distract USATF attention, the folks in Indy named Irene Obera as its Athlete of the Week “after her outstanding performance at the USATF Masters Indoor Championships Friday, March 20-22 at JDL Fast Track in
