The North Queensland city of Mackay turned on the heat to welcome over 450 athletes for the 20th Oceania Masters Athletics Championships (meet results) from 31 August to 7 September 2019. The most common comment from athletes was they had come to Mackay to escape cold winter temperatures. No-one left…
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EMAC 2019 & European Masters Athletics’ hospitality to welcome World Masters Rankings, also known as MastersRankings.com, to Venice clearly demonstrates their commitment to Masters Athletes. Thank you Kurt Kaschke, Helena Pires de Carvalho, Jean Thomas, Marta Rossi, Linda Interlandi, Moreno Beggio, and the EMAC team. MastersRankings is excited to meet…
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The 2019 World Masters Athletics Championships Indoors in Toruń, Poland between 24 and 30 March was historic. Most athletes registered (4,345) for a WMA Indoor Championship; 37 World Records; amazing country, city, Local Organizing Committee, facility, officials, and volunteers. The greatest moment of the championship, and arguably any championship, was the…
Once again, WMA had the honor of celebrating our Athletes of the Year. The overall Athletes of the Year are Carol Lafayette-Boyd from Canada and Charles Allie from the United States. In 2018, Carol Lafayette-Boyd added to her impressive list of World Records by breaking indoor Long & Triple Jumps…
David Pain – 1922 to 2019 Several people were instrumental in starting Masters Athletics but David Pain was the pioneer for our international sport. “As a then 44 year old not very fit lawyer, I thought competing against 20 year olds just didn’t seem right. I had been exposed to…
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Petra Bajeat’s, W50 from France, season started with a disappointment – she missed the European Pentathlon record by only ONE point. The events that followed, however, were impressive. Just before Christmas, she broke European records in Pentathlon (4596 pts) and Long Jump with 5m41. She surpassed her Long Jump record two…
The USATF Annual Meeting was held in Columbus, Ohio from November 29 – December 2. The Masters Track and Field Committee (MTF) met on November 30 and December 1, with the Executive Committee also meeting on November 29 and December 1. Because this is an even numbered year, this is…
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Amazing can be good or bad but you should know by now that MastersRankings always strives to find the positive in everything related to our sport. Did not need to look hard to find many. The 2018 World Masters Athletics (WMA) Championships was held in Málaga, Spain from 4 September…
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It won’t take much to have up-to-date Rankings lists including everyone; have complete All-Time lists; expand news site and have 1-3 articles per day; have complete Upcoming Competition lists; everything else you have requested plus fund MastersRankings.com. With your help, all of this will happen and your rankings site will…
Thank you to everyone reaching out over the past several months. Sorry there haven’t been many posts or newsletters (click to subscribe). You may know that, since taking on compiling World Rankings in 2014, I have been working on many things at once like developing relationships, increasing awareness for the…
