Team Ontario broke the M80 World Record in the 4X400m Relay at the Canadian Masters Indoor Championships on March 17th. They finished in 6:06.23- breaking the World Record of a previous Canadian Team of 6:34.65 (L-R)Earl Fee (Mississauga), Ray Wardle (Nepean), Bill Thompson (Hamilton), and Ed Whitlock (Milton). A true Ontario team!
As it’s the end of the Indoor meets, we added a few
Inspirational Athletes of the Season;
W55 Maria Mallia came back from cancer treatments to compete this Indoor season. Maria was treated for Breast cancer with 6 rounds of chemotherapy, surgery, and 25 rounds of radiation. (chemo – March to July, mastectomy in August, radiation October and November).
“It’s Masters competition that kept me going. When the doctor said “no, you can’t”… I said “watch me – yes I can”” Maria holds the W55 Canadian Records for the High Jump – both Indoors and Outdoors!
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M45 Ray Jonasson
came back from a lung transplant to compete and to promote the
Canadian Transplant Association
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M60 Duncan Greenshields coming off another knee surgery (that would have sidelined most others) continued to race with grit and determination.