USATF 2006 Annual Meeting: Records Report

After due consideration of the recommendations of the Records Committee, the various sports committees have taken the action set forth below with respect to pending records. Items “approved” are submitted to the USATF General Meeting for ratification. The items referred to by numbers are as they appear on pages 136 to 149 of the USATF Annual Meeting Book.

I. Men’s Track & Field Approve items 2-7, 7-14. Reject item 1. Defer item 8.

II. Women’s Track & Field Approve items 1-3, 7, 9-16. Defer items 4-6, 8.

III. Race Walking Approve item 1 and change time to 19:15:88i. Approve item 2.

IV. Men’s Long Distance Running Approve item 1, 4-6. Reject item 3. Defer item 2.

Add and approve the following Men’s Long Distance Running record: 1:59:08 Team USA Chiba JPN 11/23/2005 ekiden relay (, Matt Gonzales, Ian 5-10-5-10-5- Dobson, Brian Sell, , 7.2 km Josh Moen)

V. Women’s Long Distance Running Approve items 8-9, 11-15. Provisionally approve items 10 and 18 pending review of application scheduled for December 2006. Reject item 7. Defer all others items.

VI. Masters Long Distance Running

Add and approve the following Masters Long Distance Running records:

M70-74 12 hr 83,685 m Sam Soccoli AUA Champ/San Diego 1 Day 11/06/2004 San Diego CA M80-84 Half-mar 1:39:28 John Keston Earth Day 04/16/2005 St Cloud MN F65-69 30 km 2:27:54 Barbara Clarksburg Country Run 11/14/2004 Miller Clarksburg CA F70-74 Marathon 3:46:18 Ginette ING 11/06/2005 Bedard New York NY

Provisionally approve the following item pending course validation scheduled for December 2006:

M65-69 5 km 18:12 Bill Borla Milford Moonlight 05/27/2005 New Milford CT

Reject the following item:

M70-74 10 km 39:32 Ray Parrella Rodes City Run 03/26/2005 Louisville KY

Defer all other items.

VII. Masters Track & Field Approve and correct name in item 14 to Dwight Stones. Approve and correct events in items 22-25 to Pole Vault, Long Jump, Triple Jump and Shot Put respectively. Approve and correct age groups in items 129, 134 and 136 to 75-79, 30-39 and 70-79 respectively. Defer item 77. Approve all other items.

Add and approve the following Masters Track & Field record:

Pole Vault M75-79 3.00m Bud Held San Diego 05/28/2006 Triple Jump M50-54 14.00 Willie Banks Goletta 10/7/2006 Weight M65-69 20.18 Edward Burke Las Vegas 10/01/2006 Weight M55-59 17.87 Hank Konca Las Vegas 10/01/2006 10,000m M45-49 31:27.3 Peter Magill Shoreline 08/02/2006 Discuss W60-64 32.58 Carol Frost Lincoln 07/15/2006 400m Relay W80-89 3:51.85 USA St George 10/11/2006 (N. Reed, R. Call, A. Hessing, V. Ball)

Masters Race Walking

Approve items 2-3. Approve item 4 and correct time to 1:07:39.1 and correct event date to 4/22/06. Approve items 5-7, 9, 11, 14-16, 19-27. Approve items 28-29 and correct date to 1/15/2006. Approve items 30-33.

Add and approve the following Masters Race Walking records:

3000 M80-84 24:03 Miriam Gordon Plantation FL 10/22/2006 25K M50-54 2:11:05 Mark Green Chula Vista CA 01/15/2006

Add and defer the following Masters Race Walking records:

40K M50-54 3:42:13 Mark Green LaCorona ESP 05/14/2006 50K M50-54 4:37:38 Mark Green LaCorona ESP 05/14/2006 Defer all other Masters Race Walking Records.

VIII. Youth Athletics Defer item 6. Approve all other items.

Add and approve:

100 YG 11.74 English Gardiner Willingboro TC 200 YG 23.18 English Gardiner Willingboro TC

The work of the record keepers – Andy Carr, Bob Hersh, Ryan Lamppa, Linda Honikman, Donald Lein, Sandy Pashkin, Bev LaVeck, Denise Smotherman, the members of the Records Committee, past chairman of the Records Committee, Basil Honikman, the Road Running Technical Council – Paul Hronjack, Neville Wood, Pete Reigel and Chairman Gene Newman, the technical staff of the USATF National Office – Keith Lively and Andy Gilmore – is greatly appreciated.

Submitted by

Justin Kuo, Chair 12/03/2006