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List Of Masters Athletes
This is a list of notable people who have participated in masters athletics. Most have achieved their primary notability through athletic endeavors except when noted. * Luciano Acquarone * Aimo Aho * Gabriela Andersen-Schiess * Henry Andrade * Birger Asplund * Doris Auer * Charles Austin (high jumper), Charles Austin * Rink Babka * Lee Baca List of Los Angeles County sheriffs, Los Angeles County Sheriff * Bob Backus * Lawrence Baird * Thane Baker * Willie Banks * Arthur Barnard * James Barrineau * Jack Bacheler * Dieter Baumann * Tim Berrett * Nataša Urbančič, Nataša Bezjak * Laurie Binder * Chris Black (athlete), Chris Black * Peter Blank * Meeri Bodelid * Viktor Bolshov * Charlie Booth inventor of Starting Blocks * Lamberto Boranga * Christa Bortignon * Mary Bowermaster * Roald Bradstock Artist * Norman Bright * Debbie Brill * Benny Brown * Arto Bryggare * Zola Budd * Ed Burke (hammer thrower), Ed Burke * Billie Ann Burrill * Rich Busa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masters Athletics
Masters Athletics managed by World Masters Athletics is a class of the sport of athletics (sport), athletics for athletes of 35 years of age and over organized by World Masters Athletics. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair competition). For international events the first age group is 35 to 39. Men as old as 105 and women in their 100s have competed in running, jumping and throwing events. Masters athletes are sometimes known as "veterans" and the European Masters Championships, for instance, is known as "Eurovets". This and other high level events including biennial World Championships cater largely to elite-level athletes, but many masters athletes are novices to athletics and enjoy the camaraderie offered by masters competition at the local, National and International level. Most National governing bodies for track and field hold annual Masters championships. Prestigi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Bacheler
Jack Strangl Bacheler (born December 30, 1943) is an American former long-distance runner and two-time U.S. Olympian ( 5,000 meters in 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and Marathon in 1972 Munich Olympics). Born in Washington, District of Columbia, Bacheler was a founding member of the Florida Track Club at Gainesville, Florida in the late 1960s, and personally designed the club's distinctive "orange" logo. Standing 6 feet 7 inches, yet weighing only 165 pounds, he towered over most of his competitors. Now living in Clayton, North Carolina, he is married to Patricia Bacheler. Bacheler has two children, daughter Teresa (Teri), and son Matthew (Matt). Early running career Bacheler grew up in Birmingham, Michigan and grew quickly: he was 6 foot 5 inches in the 10th grade at Birmingham's Seaholm High. Because of his height he played basketball at Seaholm High School, but found in his senior year that he excelled more in cross country and track. At the start of his senior year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roald Bradstock
Arne Roald Bradstock (aka The "Olympic Picasso") is an Olympic athlete and an Olympic artist from England who competed in the men's javelin throw event during his career. He twice represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988. In 1992 he was an alternate for the GB Olympic Team and in 1996 was an alternate for the USA Olympic team. Bradstock competed in the 2000, 2004, 2008 USAT&F Olympic Trials and then, for his 8th and final time at age 50, the 2012 UK Olympic Trials where he came second. In 2000, Bradstock competed in the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Sport Art competition in the painting division, for which he won the gold medal. His winning painting, titled "Struggle for Perfection" then went on to be part of an International exhibition at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) museum in Lausanne as part of the 2000 Sydney Olympics cultural events. Early life Bradstock was born on April 24, 1962, in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Bowermaster
Mary L. Bowermaster (July 26, 1917 – March 4, 2011) was a nurse's aide for schools in Butler County, Ohio, until a breast cancer diagnosis in 1979. After a mastectomy and successfully battling the disease, she began a second career in masters athletics. Bowermaster, who was born in Wellsville, Ohio, is the current American record holder in the W80 long jump and shot put, and has pending marks that are superior to the listed record in the W80 and W85 100 metres. She also holds the current W80 American Indoor records in the 60 metres, long jump and shot put. As part of her recovery from the operation, she began exercising. The following year, she competed in her first Senior Olympics. Five years later she set the W65 world record in the high jump at the (WAVA) World Masters Athletics Championships in Melbourne, Australia. A regular competitor at various championship meets, she has set numerous other records as she has progressed through the age divisions. Her story has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christa Bortignon
Christa Bortignon (b. Jan 29, 1937) is a Canadian masters track and field athlete from West Vancouver, British Columbia. She holds thirteen world records in the Women's 75-79 division — five indoor (60m, 60m hurdles, 200m, pentathlon, 4X200 relay), and eight outdoor (100m, 200m, 400m, 80m hurdles, 200m hurdles, triple jump, pentathlon and heptathlon). In 2013, she was chosen the World Masters Athletics World Masters Athletics (WMA) is the worldwide governing body for the sport of masters athletics – which includes track and field, cross country, and road running events – as participated by people over 35 years of age. As the need became ..., World Female Masters Athlete of the Year. She was also the 2014 Canadian Masters Athletics (CMA) Canadian Athlete of the year. A former competitive tennis player, she began competing in Masters Track and Field in 2009, at age 72. References Further reading Christa Bortignon accounts for her Best Master season in Q&A - m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamberto Boranga
Lamberto Boranga (born 30 October 1942 in Foligno) is an Italian high, long and triple jumper (masters athletics), and football goalkeeper. Biography He has 112 appearances in Italian Serie A (Association football first division) with ACF Fiorentina (6 in season 1966–67), Brescia Calcio (in season 1969–70) and A.C. Cesena (92 in four seasons from 1973 to 1977), then he played in lower divisions until 1984. Boranga then graduated in medicine and while employed as physician for the Bastardo amateur footbal team he also played as goalkeeper in one match. While competing in master athletics, he resumed playing football in the amateur division in 2009, retiring in 2020 at the record age of 77 years and 7 months. In 2012 he set the world record master in triple jump, with a distance of 10.75, in the M70 category. He is also the holder of the world record M65 in the long jump (5.47 m). World records * Triple jump M70: 10.75 m ( Serravalle, 3 November 2012) * Long jump M65: 5.4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Booth
Charlie Booth (1 October 1903 – 20 May 2008)Vale Charlie Booth 1903–2008 was an Australian athlete. Career In the 1930s, he was a champion runner who participated in several s, until a victory in 1939. He was also a fitter and turner apprentice. Booth is widely credited for inventingstarting blocks
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Viktor Bolshov
Viktor Bolshov (; born 23 May 1939) is a retired Soviet high jumper. He competed in the 1960 Olympics finishing fourth behind his teammates Robert Shavlakadze, world record holder Valery Brumel and American John Thomas. During the course of the competition all four equaled the Olympic record, Shavlakadze, the first jumper in the order set the record first. Based on current rules, Bolshov would have tied Thomas for the bronze medal, but at the time jumpers were penalized for the number of attempts and Bolshov took seven attempts during the competition to Thomas' five. In 1961, Bolshov jumped 2.16 m in Grozny Grozny (, ; ) is the capital city of Chechnya, Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 328,533 — up from 210,720 recorded in the 2002 Russian Census, 2002 ce ..., at the time he was the number three high jumper in the world. Bolshov continued jumping, returning to the Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeri Bodelid
Meeri Annikki Bodelid (; born 23 December 1943) is a Swedish multi sport athlete. Standing she left her mark, winning Swedish national championships in three sports. She competed for Sweden in the 1972 Winter Olympics in the cross-country skiing 5 km, 10 km and 3 × 5 km relay. Bodelid also represented Sweden at three world championships. She also was Swedish national champion in team cycling in 1971 and 1972, teamed with Elisabet Höglund and Monica Bengtsson. In 1975 she won the national championship in the individual 60 km road race. In 1980 she took up Marathon running while still setting record in cross-country skiing. By 1982 she became the Swedish national champion by finishing second behind Ingrid Kristiansen at the Stockholm Marathon. She narrowly missed making the Swedish Olympic team in the marathon in 1984, setting her personal best at age 40 in 2:39:39. She represented Sweden in the 1987 World Marathon Cup already at age 43. In 1993, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Blank
Peter Blank (born 10 April 1962) is a German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Early on in his career, he was a decathlete. In 1992, he set the world record for longest javelin throw in a decathlon with a distance of 79.80 m. His personal best throw is 88.70 m, achieved in June 2001 in Stuttgart at age 39. This throw was briefly a Masters M35 world record; it lasted less than a week because Jan Železný Jan Železný (; born 16 June 1966) is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a IAAF World Championships in Athletics, World and Olympic Games, Olympic champion and holds the Javelin throw#Men, world reco ... had turned 35 three weeks earlier and in his first competition after turning 35, Železný threw the javelin 89.94 m. Železný then further improved the record to 92.80 m at the 2001 World Championships, putting it beyond Blank's reach. Two years later, Blank set the M40 world record with an 84.08 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Black (athlete)
Christopher Francis Black (born 1 January 1950) is a retired Scottish hammer thrower, who represented Great Britain at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics. Biography Black became the British hammer throw champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1976 AAA Championships. Shortly afterwards at the 1976 Olympics Games in Montreal, he represented Great Britain in the hammer throw and finished in 7th place, throwing 73.18 metres After retaining his AAA title at the 1977 AAA Championships he won a bronze medal representing Scotland at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada in the hammer throw event. Black competed again at the Olympics when he represented Great Britain at the 1980 Olympics Games in Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Binder
Laurie Binder (born August 10, 1947) is an American long-distance runner. She was a four-time winner of the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race, tied with Maryetta Boitano for the most victories, setting the first course record when the race was shortened to 12 km at 41.24.7. Biography She won the 1981 San Francisco Marathon, the year the race served as the national championship, making her the United States National Champion in the Marathon. Later in her 40s she was voted the "Masters Age Division Athlete of the Year" four consecutive times between 1988 and 1991 In 2014, she was elected into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame. Achievements References 1947 births Living people American female long-distance runners American female marathon runners American masters athletes Track and field athletes from California 21st-century American women 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
