On day six (March 28) of the World Masters Indoor Championships in Gainesville, Florida, Britain failed to match previous medal days with only a bronze in the track but the field event athletes again did well.
Allison Wilder led the way as she won the W35 triple jump with a 12.24m championships record leap.
Her second round jump comfortably held off the challenge of American Breanna Sanner, who jumped 12.10m.
Dash Newington, who had won pole vault gold the day before, came third in the W40 event with a 10.46m leap.
Geoff Tyler was a close second in the M75 discus with a 34.88m throw as gold went to Finland’s Reima Oinaanoja with a 35.12m effort.
Former world athlete of the year Neringa Jakstiene of the USA, won her third W60 gold in Florida with a championships best in the high jump with 1.46m.
In third Melanie Garland jumped 1.26m while Gaye Clarke finished seventh with a 1.18m leap.
Kenya have not won too many sprint titles but Kenya’s Milcent Ndoro did so with a clear W35 200m win in 24.48.
Stacey Downie
It was close for the other medals and Stacey Downie finished third in 25.37 to win Britain’s only women’s 200m medal.
Carol Lafayette Boyd won the W80 200m in a world record equalling 35.51 and she also set a championships best in the long jump.
W80 200m winner and record breaker Carol Lafayette-Boyd
Canada also won the W70 200m as all time great Karla Del Grande set a championship best 31.40.
Ireland’s Edel Maguire just lost out in the W65 200m as Puerto Rico’s Marie-Lande Mathieu pipped her 29.83 to 29.86.
Maguire did though win gold as she dominated the W65 high jump with a 1.34m championships best.
In fourth was the 60m champion Wendy Alexis but having turned 70 since the start of the championships her present was a world W70 record of 30.33 improving her heat time of 30.68.
Sue McDonald, World Masters athlete of the year in 2023 who has set records in events as diverse as steeplechase, pentathlon and the mile, narrowly won the W60 200m in 29.24.
W60 winner at 200m Sue McDonald
Julie Hicken excelled to finish fourth in 30.42 to match her fourth in the 60m.
Sweden’s Helen Hermundstad won the W50 200m in a championships best 26.05 while Americans W45 Amanda Roberts and W40 Easter Grant did likewise with respective 25.68 and 24.74 performances.
W40 200m winner and CBP Easter Grant
Another world record setter was American Christel Donley, who high jumped 0.89m in the W90 category.
Olympic 50km race walker Ian Richards was disqualified after being second at halfway in the M75 3000m walk won by Jose Luis Lopez Camanera of Mexico in a championships best of 16:44.55.
Juan Manuel Morales Del Castillo set a championships best in the M45 event of 12:28.38 for the quickest overall time.
Claire Cameron (fourth in 9.14m) and Hazel Barker (sixth with 8.47m) were well placed in the W65 shot won by Colombia’s Yaneth Tenorio’s 11.12m.
Clare Bryant was fifth in the W45 triple jump with 8.67m in an event won by Australia’s Nelissa Foster’s 11.52m.
Craig Beecham was seventh in the M50 long jump with a 5.71m leap in an event won by France’s Baltic Daroueche (6.35m).
Rita Hanscomb set a championships best in the W70 high jump.
Fellow American Denis Kholev set new figures in the M45 vault with a 4.80m leap.
Another US winner was Ja’Mar Watson, who set a championships best 18.39m in the M35 weight and throwing even further was M45 team-mate Paul Markel who achieved a CBP 19.35m.
Saudi Salem Alahmadi, who had already won M55 high and triple jumps, added long jump gold with a championships best 6.04m.
He only won by a centimetre though from American John Wise who also bettered the old mark.
Germany’s Dennis Schubert set a championships mark in the M35 pole vault with a 5.10m leap.
