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Newsletter 1.2015 (click on the underlined words to read the news)

EMACNS 2015_Grosseto (ITA) In the middle of May the City of Grosseto hosted the 14th European Championships Non Stadia – road running, race walking, cross country – at Castiglione della Pescaia: 1107 competitors from many parts of Europe took part. Medals Table and Results are available. The next EMACNS 2016 will be held next May by the Portuguese city Vila Real de St António, in the Algave. Waiting for you!

Training Camp_Baltic Open Masters Championships (LAT) You are welcome to Ventspils (LAT): from the 7th to the 13th of June has been planned a Training Camp together with Olympic Champion Dainis Kula, the winner of (Moscow, 1980) in javelin throw. After 5 days training you have a chance to take part in Baltic Open Masters Athletics Championship 2015 which will be held in Latvian town of Valmiera June 13-14, 2015.

WMAC 2015_Lyon (FRA) The next World Masters Athletics Championships has been officially opened! You will be able to get the event latest news and all the information you need on its Facebook page or website. Registration deadline: June 2, 2015!

New records Samuli Korpi (FIN) jumped 1,25 m and set the M85 new world record. The previous one was 1,22 m (Emmerch Zensch, AUT, 2005). Silke Schmidt (GER) set two new world records: last 2nd of May she ran 10.000 m in 36:53.81 in Ohrdruf (GER ); in March she ran half in 1:19:39 improving the previous W55 record by 9 seconds. Hermann Albrecht (GER) has set up a new European record M75 in Hammer Throw (weight 4 kg): 48,76 m. The previous best results belonged to Waldemar

Villhauer and Richard Rzehak from who threw 47,83 m in 2012 and 47,67 in 2005.

European Masters Athletics Top Ten ever Since April 2015 on EMA website has been visible a table of the “10 European Best Masters ever”. The results are updated until the 11th of April: if you notice some mistakes or results which are not listed, please do us a favour and send your corrections to Bernd Rehpenning - the man who created the age factors for WMA during the last years – writing him [email protected] .

EMA Academy Do you set a new record? Have you a special history to tell? Do you want to report results or events? Do you have any requests? Please contact Ema Academy Manager and we will promote athletics together! www.evaa.ch