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BOSTON - 2008 Sullivan Award finalist Phil Raschker set yet another
world record Saturday at the 2008 USA Masters Indoor Track & Field
Championships, topping a three-world-record day that also saw WRs from
Kevin Solomon and Orville Rogers at the Reggie Lewis Center.
The 61-year-old Raschker (Marietta, Ga.) is a finalist for the Sullivan
Award, given annually to the nation's top amateur athlete. On Monday she
will attend the Sullivan Award gala at the New York Athletic Club, but
she's leaving her mark in Boston first. On Saturday, she crushed the W60
world and American record in the 400 meters, running 68.34 seconds to
break the record of 70.15 set by Riet Jonkers of the Netherlands in
2005.
Two world records fell in the mile, with Orville Rogers (Dallas, Texas)
breaking the M90 world and American record. His time of 9:56.58
surpasses the existing mark of 11:23.67 set by American legend Max
Springer in 2005. Kevin Solomon also made his way into the world and
American record books in the M60 mile, his time of 5:01.62 edging past
the previous record of 5:01.72 set by American Dan Conway back in 1998.
Doug Goodhue (Milford, Mich.) added an American record in M65 with his
time of 5:21.72, and Chad Newton (Pisgah Forest, N.C.) broke his second
listed AR of the meet thus far in M35, running 4:25.27.
In the long jump, men set American records at both ends of the masters
age spectrum. Aaron Sampson (Salt Lake City), jumped 6.69m/21-11.5 in
M45, and Edwin Lukens (Syracuse, N.Y.) soared 3.25m/10-8 in M85.
Two records also went down in the men's shot put as the appropriately -
if somewhat redundantly - named Champion Gold was one of three men
surpassing the existing American record in the M90 age group. Gold
(Haddonfield, N.J.) threw 7.27m/23-10.25 to win the competition. Leland
McPhie and David Schlothauer also beat the old record, both throwing
6.98m/22-10.75). Chad Lindsay of Lovell, Wyo., threw 16.69m/54-9.25 to
break the M35 listed AR.
Other than Raschker, the sole woman to set an individual record on
Saturday was another masters legend, Barbara Jordan, who ran 10.03 in
the W70 60m. She had previously run 10.24 in January to set a pending AR
in Hanover, N.H.
In the final two track events of the day, the Colonial Road Runners
(Williamsburg, Va.) set an American record in the men's 50-59 4x800m
relay with 9:06.90, and Rod Jett (Sacramento, Calif.) ran 8.21 in the
60m hurdles to shave .01 off the American record in the M40 age group.
For complete results, visit USATF.org.
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