The European Masters Athletics have announced their athletes for the 2020 season, huge congratulations to all 🙂 Masters athletes from track & field and long-distance running and walking will be awarded as Master‘s Athlete of the Year at EMACI 2020 in
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Tapped as a possible Olympic torchbearer is Shoji Tomihisa, a 102-year-old athlete of the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Miyoshi who was exposed to radiation after the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. “As long as I’m running (in the relay), I’m focusing on
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Roy Jorgen Svenningsen has become the oldest person ever to complete the Antarctic Ice Marathon According to a report in CTV, Svenningse, who started the race December 13, took 11 hours and 41 minutes to finish it on Monday. “At one point,
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Andrea Diener is throwing her weight around as a Canadian Masters Athletics’ record holder. The St. Albert mother of four established the new W40 division indoor weight throw mark of 11.04 metres in her first competitive season since training for the 2005
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Sri Lanka’s Shot Putt champion (Age Category 60-64), Rajiva Wijetunge won a Bronze medal for Sri Lanka at the 21st Asia Masters Athletics Championship 2019, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia recently. Incidentally, this is the second Bronze medal he has won at
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Like a fine wine, Forden runner Andrew Davies is getting better with age after smashing a British record at Sunday’s Valencia Marathon. The former semi-professional footballer, who turned 40 in October, ran a new personal best of two hours 14 minutes and
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A Timaru Boys’ High School visual arts teacher has ranked fourth in the world after breaking the Masters 50-plus age group decathlon record. Wayne Doyle’s interest in athletics began as a teenager, and now at the age of 55, feels on top of
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Katikati’s Sally Gibbs has broken the World Masters Athletics age-group record for the 10,000m at Newtown Park Stadium in Wellington. Gibbs broke the record in the W55 59 years—subject to ratification—with her time of 36:46:96 in the Agency Group on November 9.
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Last weekend, Keith Hutton a local resident of Albert Town competed at the South Island Masters Athletics Championships at the new Nga Puna Wai Track in Christchurch. Hutton may have passed retirement age but it’s not slowing him down. In warm but
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The man and legend known as “The Running Man” Orville Rogers has passed away at 101 Years old Rogers got his nickname because he loved to run, setting a world record in the 60-yard dash in 2018 for someone 100 years old
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