No matter how big I believe all news relating to masters track is worth reading, every little story can build up and get a ball roling that increases awareness of the sport we all love and put so much time into. Why not share those times and stories?
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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When Cook Holliday was in the first grade in Rochelle, Wilcox County, he got on the bus after school one day, looked out the window and for the first time saw somebody pole vaulting. It intrigued him so much that when he
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What began as a call for change by some veteran athletes over the way the Masters community was being managed has led to a disagreement between Singapore Athletics (SA) and its affiliate, Singapore Masters Athletics (SMA), resulting in the latter sending two
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Tony Bowman won three medals in the 80-84 category at the European Masters He scored silver in the 400m relay, bronze in decathlon and fourth in the 100m Broke 11 British athletic records when he started before having two heart attacks Has ‘cut
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Having started fitness training at age 50, on the instructions of the Fitness Centre of the Ministry of Sports (MoS), to get over his knee problems, Srilal Alahakoon ended up an international sprinter in no time. For successfully completing its fitness programme,
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Do vibration rollers and Massage Guns work! Local vibration, that is vibration directly applied to a muscle, was used in studies as early as the 1960s to investigate sensory afferents, reflexes and motor response (1-6, 9, 12-13, 22, 40-41). Note, this paper
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