W50 Elizabeth Hill put the Shot 11.10m – breaking the CAN Record of 10.51m held by Liz McBlain from 1998. (photo by Mike Mendis)
M45 Don Ritchie won the OMA Indoor Pentathlon Championships held during the meet. Don scored 3256 points – beating his own CAN Record by 100 points. Since Don turns 50, that was his last M45 Indoor Pent – a nice way to finish!
We hosted a 4 X 800m Relay at the end of the meet. The event is very rarely contested – so the CAN Records were there for the taking!
The M60 Newmarket Huskies team was lead by Bob Knuckey
John De Finney ran the second leg
Tim Payne ran the third leg
Ken Hamilton ran a fine anchor leg,
finishing in 10:59.89 – a new CAN Record
John Willet ran the lead leg for the M35 University of Toronto Track Team
Mike Mendis ran a fine second leg.
Mike was running in his first track race!
Ming Tsai ran the third leg
Gary Plium took it home in the anchor leg – finishing in 9:42.93
the new CAN Record
The M30 Village People Runners team finished in 10:12.83 – which establishes a new ONT Record. (L-R) Steve Burns, Mark Duff, Mark Giardetti, and Jimmy Semes.
The closest race of the meet was in the 400m where Jim Seeds (L) nicked Rick Ball by 3/100ths