The awards were presented by OMA Marketing Director Jay Yakabowich at the Sunnybrook 8K race on Sunday, November 2nd. Lynn Bourque, the OMA Road Race Director couldn’t attend. Paul Huyer – 1st Male Elizabeth Waywell – 1st Woman Nancy Wells – 2nd Woman […]
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Newmarket Huskies scored the top three age-graded positions at the 39th Annual Sunnybrook 8K Cross Country on Sunday, November 2nd. Geoff Peat, Derek Hackshaw, and Chris Deighan were the top scorers. UTTC edged Longboat by three positions in the Club points for the race. Newmarket took a commanding lead in the Breslin Cup Standings – […]
M50 Steve Boyd (orange top) had a 15:55 finish at the Canadian 5K Championships on Sept 7th in Toronto. That is a 92.8% AG score He missed Jerry Kooyman’s 9 year old CAN record by 4 seconds! Honorable Mention goes to W40 Lioudmila Kourtchaguina 7th woman overall in 35:14 (90.1% AG) at the Canadian 10K Championships in Toronto […]
M40 Darren Weldrick (in blue) from The RUNWAY was the first overall on a perfect late summer afternoon. Only 6 entries shy of the all time attendance mark. M55 Jerry Kooymans from the Toronto Olympic Club broke Ken Hamilton’s Course Record in 18:22 Ken ran 18:49 in 2009. Jerry still holds the M50 […]
M70 John Kasperski has won multiple medals in the throws since coming back after double hip replacement. He won a Gold, two Silvers, and a Bronze medal at the NCCWMA Championships in Costa Rica Honourable mention goes to Earl Fee, Rhona Trott, Bill Pearson, and Peter Zowkewych Photo courtesy The Throwers Club
The Board of Directors of Ontario Masters Athletics is pleased to announce that we will be inducting Doug Smith into the OMA Hall of Fame 2014, for his tireless work on behalf of Masters athletes. This is the 20th anniversary year of Doug’s beginning as the President of OMA in 1994. He began as a Masters athlete […]
Female Throws Marie-Josée Le Jour Marie-Josée broke the W35 World Record in Throws Pentathlon, which was a long standing record (since 2001) and she also recorded over 4,000 points (4,047) which is an elite level throws pentathlon that few masters throwers achieve Honourable Mention: Kristin Dajia, Elizabeth Hill, Rhona Trott Kristin and Rhona each set […]
Maureen Teixeira is 72, and did her first sprint events ever (100m and 400m) at our OMA Championships! She was inspired by a video and article about Olga Kotelko and a quote from C.S. Lewis, “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” With Olga’s recent passing, it is […]