Toruń, Poland
March 26, 2023
Day One of the 9th World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships is in the books, and Team USATF had a banner first day. The US team of Masters athletes won a total of 17 medals and set three new American age group records (pending verification). This placed Team USATF Masters, with seven golds, six silvers, and four bronzes, in second place on the medal table, behind Poland (25 total medals) and just ahead of Germany (6 gold medals/25 total medals).
New American Age Group records were set by Robert Cahners (Naples, FL) in the M80 Weight Throw, April Lund (Bismarck, ND) capturing silver in the W40 3000m, and Lee Adkins (Milbrae, CA) in the M50 Long Jump. Cahners’s toss of 16.16m topped his 15.92m result at the Indoor Nationals in Louisville two weeks ago to extend his new American record. Lund’s time of 9:47.05 eclipsed the record previously held by Sonja Friend-Uhl (9:50.37), and Adkins’s jump of 6.54m took down the record held by Antonio Palacios (6.50m) who won the M55 Long Jump in Toruń today.
Team USATF Masters Gold Medalists today were:
Lee Adkins (Milbrae, CA) – M50 Long Jump
Robert Cahners (Naples, FL) – M80 Weight Throw
Carol Finsrud (Lockhart, TX) – W65 Discus
Gloria Krug (New Oxford, PA) – W90 Discus
Antonio Palacios (Bloomington, IN) – M55 Long Jump
Michelle Rohl (Mansfield, PA) – W55 3000m
Alison Wood (Aumsville, OR) – W45 High Jump
Silver Medalists were:
Jeanette Groesz (Redmond, OR) – W70 3000m
Brian Hankerson (Coral Springs, FL) – M60 Long Jump
Angela Herzner (Tempe, AZ) – W45 Shot Put
Mark Husted (Golden, CO) – M35 3000m
April Lund (Bismarck, ND) – W40 3000m
Emil Pawlik (Jackson, MS) – M85 High Jump
Bronze Medalists were:
Rachel Guest (Surprise, AZ) – W45 High Jump
Jennifer Hedges (Magnolia, TX) – W55 High Jump
Robert Qualls (Reno, NV) – M70 3000m
Angela Staab (Reidsville, NC) – W80 3000m
Competition resumes tomorrow with heats in the 60m dash, semifinals in the 400m, finals in cross country and the 3000m race walk, along with a variety of throwing and jumping events. The Championships runs all week, wrapping up on Saturday, April 1, 2023.
