NEW YORK CITY — Five individual event American records and five 4x400m relay records highlighted the third and final day of the USATF Masters Indoor Championships at the Armory. The Potomac Valley TC took home the women’s team trophy with 236 points, ahead of Philadelphia Masters (204) and So Cal TC (186), and in the men’s team standings, So Cal TC edged out Potomac Valley TC 348.5-321, with Greater Philadelphia TC third (307). Potomac Valley TC won the combined team trophy, tallying a combined 557 points.
Tami Graf (Lusby, Maryland/Potomac Valley TC) cut more than a minute off the American record in the women’s 85-89 800m with her 6:55.80. The previous AR of 8:11.20 was set by Mary Kirsling 11 years ago. Olympian Michelle Rohl (Mansfield, Pennsylvania/Greater Philadelphia TC) continued her hot streak with an American record in the women’s 55-59 race, her 2:26.85 good enough to clip .73 off the existing record and beat Alisa Harvey (Manassas, Virginia), who holds the AR in the previous three age groups.
In field event action, Carol Finsrud (Lockhart, Texas/Texas Throwers) added 3cm to the American record in the women’s 65-69 shot put, throwing 9.39m/30-9.75. Gold medal number two on the weekend and American record number two went to Gloria Krug (New Oxford, Pennsylvania/Philadelphia Masters) in the women’s 90-94 shot put with a throw of 5.39m/17-8.25 to add six inches to the existing AR.
Breaking her own American women’s 45-49 shot put record, Angela Herzner (Tempe, Arizona/AZ Desert Throws) had a best of 13.61m/44-8 on her second attempt to improve her AR by almost a foot.
Capping off the three-day Championships were a slew of 4x400m relay records. In the women’s non-club 50-54 a team of Emmannuelle McGowan, Jennifer Harvey, Michelle Rohl and Dianne DeOliveira took more than four seconds off the world non-club record with a 4:22.10. One age group up in the 55-59 division, the quartet of Roxanne Brockner, Alisa Harvey, Andrea Collier and Sue McDonald finished in 4:27.07 to chop more than a minute off the existing world non-club record.
Central Park TC set a women’s 45-49 club American record by more than 45 seconds with a 4:41.94, running a foursome of Jennifer St. Jean, Judy Stobbe, Lisa Daley and Veronica LeShore. Establishing a men’s 55-59 non-club American record of 4:23.07 was a team of Owen Barrett, Anthony Baker, Willie Spruill and Gerald Mitchell.
The final record of the meet went to Mass Velocity TC in the men’s club 55-59, where Shigeki Makino, Timothy Hoff, Karl Ross and David Neumann clocked 4:14.22 to knock more than 10 seconds off the previous American record.
