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BOSTON - A pair of world marks in the men's 800 and a women's relay record marked a busy, record-filled final day of competition Sunday at the 2008 USA Masters Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center.
Orville Rogers, a 90-year-old youngster from Dallas, set his second world and American record of the meet with his time of 4:19.97 in Sunday's M90 800 meters. It was a huge improvement over the previous world record of 4:50.81 run by Bob Matteson one year ago at this meet. On Saturday, Rogers ran 9:56.58 in the mile.
Also in the 800 on Sunday, Joe King broke the M80 world and American record with a time of 3:07.66. He dipped under the WR of 3:08.88, held since 2005 by Rune Bergman of Sweden.
A women's world record fell by more than 20 seconds in the 4x400m relay when the Athena Track Club team of Terri Cassel, Terri Rath, Charmaine Roberts and Kathleen Shook ran 4:17.10 to break the W40-49 record of 4:38.92 set in 2003. The Atlanta Track Club set a W50-59 American record as Linda Lowery, Trenice Mulls Dubow, Mary Richards and Lesley Chaplin-Swann ran 5:02.25.
Scores of other American records fell, particularly in the superweight throw. On the women's side, local athlete Mary Roman of Norwalk, Mass, set a W70 American record with a throw of 7.30m/23-11.5, and Amy Hicks of Needham, Mass., did the same in W75 with a mark of 5.06m/16-7.25. Both women threw an implement weighing 20.216 pounds. David Schlothauer of Westport, Mass., set his second American record of the meet on Sunday, with a toss of 5.88m/19-3.5 in the M90 superweight (25.518 pounds).
Other superweight American records came from Lillian Snaden in W75 (5.49m/18-0.75), Carol Young in W65 (8.10m/26-7), Betty Jarvis in W90 (3.39m/11-1.5), Val McGann in M80 (7.94m/26-0.75), Robert Cahners in M65 (8.60m/28-2.75; he broke the AR in the weight throw on Friday) and William Nettles in M85 (5.72m/18-9.25).
In the men's triple jump, Edwin Luken (Syracuse, NY) set his second AR of the meet with a mark of 7.24m/23-9.
On the track, the men's 3,000m race walk resulted in records by Jack Bray in M75 (17:12.80) and Marvin Goldenberg in M80 (20:38.49). In the sprints, Barbara Jordan ran a W70 American record in the 200m with a blazing time of 34.38.
In record-setting earlier in the meet, the unattached U.S. team of Jerry LeVasseur, C. Christopher Rush, Joe Cordero and Bill Spencer ran 12:09.35 in the 4x800m to set a M70-79 world record.
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