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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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SportNet.com to Broadcast Three More Golden League Events on the Web

Posted July 30th, 2007 at 10:00 AM by Martha Jones

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

USA Track & Field announced last week that Sportnet.com would broadcast four more track meets live in 2007, including the final three meets of the IAAF Golden League series. Sportnet will also broadcast the the 2007 USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships from Orono, Me. There is no charge to view the meets.

The schedule is as follows:

Aug. 2 - 8: USATF Masters Outdoor Championships (Orono, Maine)

Sep. 7: Weltklasse Zürich (Zürich, SUI)

Sep. 14: Memorial Van Damme (Brussels, BEL)

Sep. 16: DKB-ISTAF Berlin (Berlin, GER)

For exact broadcast times and more information, visit http://www.sportnet.com

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Maine entrants competing at the USA Masters Champs

Posted July 30th, 2007 at 8:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb

Section: News & Results, Masters

More than 20 Maine residents are slated to compete at this week’s 2007 USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Orono, Maine, giving the meet a terrific local flavor.

Held this year from August 2-5, the USA Masters Outdoor Championships annually showcases extraordinary demonstrations of speed, power, skill and endurance by many of the world’s finest masters track and field athletes, proving that age is no barrier to lifetime fitness. Athletes compete in five-year age divisions, beginning at age 30. In 2007, the meet will be webcast live at www.usatf.org

Maine residents slated to compete include William Donnell, 75 from Sedgwick, a sawmill operator competing in the hammer throw, and Doug Allen, 66 from Orono, a Yale track standout in the 1960’s, now University of Maine philosophy professor, competing in M65 5,000m. Reverend Richard Camp, 70, Freeport, will compete in the 100m, 200m and discus. Camp was a member of the world record indoor

4×200m relay team (M70-79) this past winter and won the 65-69 100m dash at the 2003 Penn Relays.
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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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