Ninety-year-old Richville, Minnesota resident Ralph Maxwell was the local headliner at last weekend's USA Master Indoor Championships in Boston, winning seven gold medals and setting two world age-group records.USATF Minnesota Masters chairman Tom Langenfeld sent DtB this report on the Minnesota goings-on at USA Masters"
" ... Maxwell entered the M90 group impressively. Gold medals and world records in the pentathlon and 60m hurdles. Gold medals and American records (I think) in the 60m (11.63) and triple jump (5.52m/18-1.5). Gold medals in the 200m (43.92), high jump (1.05m/3-5.25 – 1 cm below the world record) and long jump (2.85m/9-4.25). And he also threw the shot – second of two competitors.
"Thom Weddle followed his first place in the M70 3000m with a second in the mile (6:13.98). Jim Sheehan dropped down to take on a strong field of sprinters in the M60 400m Saturday – finished seventh (in a field of 17), but set a Minnesota masters record at 64.71. He came back with a fourth in the 800m on Sunday (2:27.50) and then ran a leg on the So Cal Track Club’s gold medal M60-69 4x400 relay team.
"Jim Schoffman finished fourth in the M55 400 on Saturday (58.44) and eighth in a field of 14 in the M55 800m on Sunday (2:25.07), then ran a leg on the Mass Velocity Track Club’s winning M50-59 4x400 relay team. Jim also made the finals in the 60m, finishing eighth, and placed tenth in the 200m."
Langenfeld, a 30-time USA Masters high jump champion, himself, was unable to compete in this year's meet due to upper back injury.
Complete results of the USA Masters meet can be found HERE.
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