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Records fall as USA Masters Outdoor Championships conclude
Posted August 6th, 2007 at 7:45 AM by Martha Jones
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
More world and American records were broken during the final day of competition of the USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships here Sunday on the campus of the University of Maine.
More than 1,100 athletes ages 30 to 95+ competed in the four day event.
Numerous records were broken throughout the meet and a number of individuals added to that total before competition came to a close Sunday afternoon.
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Raschker sets records at 2007 National Senior Games
Posted July 12th, 2007 at 3:34 PM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
Masters track and field legend Phil Raschker set one world record and two U.S. records at the 2007 National Senior Games July 1-4 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Raschker set the W60 world record in the 400 meters with her time of 66.69 seconds, bettering the previous record of 67.30 set by Ann Stobaus of Australia in 2001. Raschker’s time in the 100 meter final was 13.67, a significant improvement over the existing world record of 13.89 seconds set by Brunhilde Hoffman from Germany in 1999. However, the wind gauge in that race recorded 2.8 meters per second, over the allowable limit of 2.0 for record consideration.
In the long jump, two of Raschker’s best legal jumps of 4.73 meters/15 feet 6.25 inches, and 4.64m/15-2.75, surpassed the listed American W60 record of 4.55m/14-11 set by Nadine O’Connor in 2006. The triple jump witnessed an even more impressive performance, where Raschker recorded leaps of 9.42m/30-11, 9.46m/31-0.5, and 9.63m/31-7.25 meters, each of which bettered Betty Vosburgh’s U.S. record of 8.05m/26-5 meters established in 1992.
Raschker will continue her assault on the record book at the USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships to be held August 2-5, 2007 in Orono, Maine.
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