Athletics Through Life. Life Through Athletics.
We are recognizing OMA members who are frontline workers, during the pandemic, whether it be in healthcare, security, store workers, transit workers, etc. Their training may have been curtailed, there are no competitions happening, but their sacrifices go above and beyond being an athlete at the track or on the field, however their work is appreciated/respected by all the OMA membership
Joy Kramarich (centre) works at Sunnybrook Hospital
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Every individual has an important role to play in achieving community objectives. Success will require more than individual accomplishments. Honouring all OMA members during these challenging and unprecedented times reflects the importance of everyone’s contributions.
“Athletics through life. Life through athletics.”
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The M55 World Record in the 4×400 Relay was broken at OMA Indoors
4:05:85 Paul Osland, Jose Fuentes, Simon Rayner, Serge Faucher
Old WR 4:24.39 USA ’19, old CAN 4:48.85 BC ’16
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A record 270 athletes competed at the Toronto Track & Field Centre on March 8th
There were 8 CAN Records, 27 Meet Records, and one World Record broken at the championships
New World Record M55 4x400m Relay 4:05.85
Old WR 4:24.39 USA ’19 Old CAN 4:48.85 BC ’16
Paul Osland Oly, Jose Fuentes, Simon Rayner, Serge Faucher
W65 Karla Del Grande broke the CAN Record in the 60m in 8.91
She also broke Meet Records in the 200m and 400m
M60 Ayman Mazhar broke the CAN with a 17.64 Weight Throw
M65 Ward Hazen broke the CAN with a 10.49 in the 60m Hurdles
(photo – Sue Sitki)
W45 Tracy Viggers broke the CAN with a 10.20 in the Weight Throw
W65 Kris Kozell broke the CAN with a 17:46.49 in the 3000m Racewalk
M70 Richard Lech broke his own CAN with a 10.79 in the 60m Hurdles
(photo by John MacMillan)
JamCan – winners of the Brian Keaveney Trophy for the top scoring club
This is what 1/1000th of a second difference looks like
in Karla and Wendy’s 200m
Photos by Dan Slovitt
W60 Wendy Alexis
Wendy ran 8.76 in the 60m at Masters Mini Meet #3
(104.57%, according to the 2014 factors)
Photo by Dan Slovitt
W65 Karla Del Grande
At OMA Mini Meet #2, Karla broke the W65 Canadian record for the 60m, running 8.87 (105.19%).
At Mini Meet #1, she came within 0.05s of her own Canadian record in the 50, running 7.71 (104.15%, according to the 2015 age grading factors).
Photo – John MacMillan
W65 Clara Northcott
Clara finished 12th overall and 2nd W60 in the Egg Nog Jog on Dec. 8th in Caledon, Ontario. Clara ran 48:25, which has an age grading of 86.13%.
M55 Geoff Peat
At the Canadian Cross Country Championships in Abbotsford, B.C., Geoff finished 14th overall in the Masters 8K, in 28:36. His age grading (87.94%) was the third highest overall, and first among Ontario athletes. He also led Team Ontario to a third place finish in the GAAT masters team standings.
Photo from the Ontario Championships in King City
The Newmarket Huskies were awarded
The Jim Breslin Cup
as the top Cross Country Club in Ontario
at Sunday’s Championship in King City.
The Huskies have won the Series an incredible 12 times in a row!
Photo – OMA President Doug Smith presents the trophy to Chris Deighan
M40 Reid Coolsaet set a new Canadian Record at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon on October 20th. His time (2:15:23, an age-grading of 93.39%) was about four minutes faster than the previous M40 record, and he was 14th overall and 4th Canadian in this Olympic Trials race.
Reid also set a new M40 Canadian Record in the 10K in Collingwood on Oct. 5th (30:09; 92.43%).
