Here's the wrap up from the USATF Masters Championships. There were some glitches in the reporting of results and in WiFi coverage for people at the meet, so here is a summary of what happened in North Carolina courtesy of Tom Langenfeld: We missed one Minnesota gold
medalist: Chris Cohen of Chanhassen won
the M45 400m hurdles in 63.15 on Sunday.
He earlier took third in the 110m highs in 17.14 (a Minnesota age group
record) behind two hurdlers who were within a tenth of a second of the American
record.
Chris is a former Gopher
defensive back but hadn’t hurdled since high school until last year. (He wore a Gopher track uniform in the highs,
so is easily identifiable in the video HERE.) He was boys track coach at Minnetonka
2000-2013, assistant at Chanhassen this past year.
By my quick count, looks like
Minnesotans brought home a total of 15 individual medals – seven gold, three
silver, and five bronze.
Sherwood Sagedahl accounted for
a third of those. And after winning the pentathlon, 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, long jump and javelin, he ran a leg on
the winning M75 non-club 4x400 relay team (5:01.88).
A little late now, but a few
other notes I would have passed along from Winston-Salem if I could
have:
Carl Etter – Although
consistently among the national leaders in the jumps, he was competing in his
first USATF national. His winning LJ and
TJ distances bettered the listed M70 Minnesota age group
records.
Paul Lykken – The defending M50
javelin champion, he missed the gold this year by just 2 centimeters –
three-quarters of an inch! (55.10m to 55.08m).
Jim Schoffman – He was able to
run his age in the 400m again, Achilles problem notwithstanding. Jim turned 60 last year, and ran under 60
several times during the season. Now 61,
he ran the 400m final in Winston-Salem at 60.98.
Susan Loyd – Nursing a knee
problem, she still managed a fourth in the W55 400m and made the finals in both
the 100 and 200m.
Tom Langenfeld – Fourteenth
consecutive outdoor national HJ championship, 16th out of the last 17 years, 22nd overall dating
back to 1975. (This year’s was the first
one won on misses, however.) Competed as
a 78-year-old Sunday. Turned 79 the next
day.
Some of the Winston Salem Journal coverage of the USATF Masters on the friendships of the athletes HERE, on middle distance legend Nolan Shaheed HERE.
Some of the Winston Salem Journal coverage of the USATF Masters on the friendships of the athletes HERE, on middle distance legend Nolan Shaheed HERE.
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