Paul Zelmanski USA (L) and Don Ritchie are neck and neck in the M50 60m Hurdles. Don won the gold by 1/100th in 9.57. W45 Gaby Szanto broke the CAN record in the Pole Vault with a 2.80m mark. The previous CAN was 2.61m by Carol Reindl SK in 2004. Gaby also broke the 22 […]
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Great turnout for the first Ontario Masters event of the year. We hosted the 1st Annual OMA 5000m Invitational. 11 runners went under the Canadian Record for the Indoor distance – establishing eight new age-group records. Leanne Shafir led the field through a brisk sub-1:30 at 4oom . . W35 Sue Joy of Physi-Kult ran […]
Team Ontario won the Gaat Trophy by a very slim 3% margin – as the top provincial masters team at the Canadian Cross Country Championships in Vancouver on Saturday, November 26th. The top four age-graded scores count for the province’s total. M45 Steve Boyd from Physi-Kult was our top scorer with an 85.27% age graded […]
Warm but windy weather made for a great day in Guelph on November 13th for the Ontario Cross Country Championships. The Masters race went at 12:20pm. Ontario Cross Country Champions; W30 Ayesha Rollinson M30 Patrick Boily – Timmins Porcupine W35 Donna Mae Robins M35 Paul Felix – Don’t Get Lost W40 Christy Barber #491 M40 […]
Jim Breslin Jr (wearing his father’s jacket) presents the Jim Breslin Cup to Chris Deighan and the Newmarket Huskies – winners of the 2011 Ontario Masters Cross Country Series. Chris had the highest AG score in two races, the second highest in the 3rd race and the third highest in the Championships. NEWH UTTC LBR […]
You all know how valuable Burnbrae Farms’ support has been over the last couple of years, particularly in helping us organize frequent and high-quality events and competitions for you. We are pleased to announce that, as part of its Community Involvement efforts, Burnbrae Farms (and its Naturegg brand) decided to continue sponsoring Ontario Masters Athletics […]
M80 Ed Whitlock ran 3:15:54 at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon – the Ontario Masters Championships – on Sunday, setting a new WORLD RECORD. He broke his own record of 3:25:43 that he set in Rotterdam in April by almost TEN MINUTES! Photo credit: TODD FRASER/STWM.ca STAFF I asked Ed how be was able to […]
M100 Fauja Singh was our guest at the OMA Fauja Singh Invitational Meet at Birchmount Stadium in Toronto on Thursday, October 13th – as a warmup before his participation in the OMA Marathon Championships – the Scotiabank Waterfront Toronto Marathon on Sunday. Fauja broke or set EIGHT World Records – running 8 events in a […]
Despite awful weather conditions – cold wind and rain – there were nine Course Records broken on Sunday at the 17th Annual Taylor Creek 5K Cross Country. We also had the largest field in history! M35 Jay Brecher from the University of Toronto Track Club finished first overall – followed very closely by M55 Chris […]
Ed Whitlock and Rita Quibell were awarded the Ontario Masters Athletes of the Year for 2011. Ed received the Bob Moore award as Male AOTY and Rita was presented with the Dorly Brechbuehl award as Female AOTY. The presentations were made at the annual Ontario Athletics Awards Banquet at the Don Valley Hotel on Saturday, […]