USATF Masters Championships Begin With a World Record for Sherwood Sagedahl

Sherwood Sagedahl

from Tom Langenfeld
Beginning an ambitious schedule for the 2014 US Masters Championships at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina, newly turned M75 Sherwood Sagedahl scored 4,060 points in the pentathlon.  A new World Record for M75, Sagedahl broke the old mark of 3.733 by Germany's Edmund Selb, which was set in 2002.  Robert Hewitt had the previous American record of 3,510 set in 2008.  Sagedahl also holds the M70 World Record in the event of 3806 set in 2012.

In prelims, Jim Schoffman won his heat in the M60 400 meters in 61.63, the second fastest time in the prelims.  Video of the race is HERE. Susan Loyd ran in the W55 400 prelims.  The is a glitch in the results which appear to show the finish place of the runners, but cut off the part of the team column and the third column where the results should be.  Thus, if this is correct, means that Susan Loyd finished with the fourth fastest time in the W55 prelims.  Peter Haack M39, running in the M35 prelims had the seventh fastes time.  Live results are HERE. You can click on the race results to see the truncations in some of the results. Hopefully they'll get it fixed.

Jim Schoffman on the weather: "Couldn't have asked for better weather. 80's in the day. After surviving 2006 championship's in Charlotte with heat index around 110, this is a treat."