The 2019 European Masters Champion in the 200m, Steve Peters of Middlesbrough, UK, won his 39th successive sprinting crown since 1994 this weekend, running a 25.56 to take the title. Peters’ time is extremely impressive, for several reasons. First, he had already run 100m
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When Alastair Walker hung up his trainers more than 20 years ago, he thought his running days were over. But he is now one of the fastest over-60s in the world after taking up his old hobby again. The grandad of three,
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I am obviously going to be biased here as a 200 and 400m runner, but wow the timetable that has finally been published by the Toronto LOC is crazy! (Maybe) but… see below For the full schedule of events look HERE You
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He began running after retiring from his job and racked up dozens of gold medals and two world records in masters competitions. Ugo Sansonetti, an Italian business executive who began runningtrack in his 70s, won numerous medals at World Masters Athletic Championship events and broke several
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I recently reported about the SMA imposing new rules for the provision of masters athletics, in essense applying standards to allow people to compete, this story about “standards” has evoked some great debate around the future of Masters Athletics with proponents for
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Members of Nigeria Athletics Masters (NAM) paid a visit to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) at the Presidential villa in Abuja recently to solicit support ahead the 2020 World Masters Athletics Championship (WMA) holding in Toronto, Canada. The Nigeria Athletics
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The Singapore Masters Athletics governing body has decided to set standards for its athletes in order to compete at the upcoming AMA Championships, with view of maintaining this process for next years world masters athletics championships in Toronto. This would be the
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Sanjaya Jayasinghe, most valuable athlete receiving his award from the chief guest P.H.D. Waidyatilaka As many as 86 new meet records were established at the annual championships of the Masters Athletics Sri Lanka (MASL) held at the Sugathadasa Stadium last weekend. A
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CHICO — In 1973, Roger Parnell was in his final year competing for the Chico State track team. His warmup routine was simple — stretch first, then take the track for practice at University Stadium. Now at 70 years old, Parnell finds
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91-year-old Chestnut Hill woman smashed the world record for her age in the 400-meter dash Saturday, USA Track & Field New England said. Diane Hoffman, who turned 92 this week, broke one world record and two national records at the 2019 USATF
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