90-year-old U.S. runner topples Canadian’s 1,500m world age-group document

A 90-year-old runner saved the most effective for final throughout her profitable weekend on the USATF Masters Outside Championships in Greensboro, N.C., breaking the W90 world document within the 1,500m and claiming the crown from a Canadian.

Greensboro’s personal Dot Sowerby delighted a hometown crowd Sunday when she ran the 1,500m in 11:30.62, taking greater than a minute off the document held by North Vancouver’s Lenore Montgomery, who lined the gap in 12:34.67 at a monitor meet in Surry, B.C., in September 2020.

Sowerby’s world-record effort this week, which has but to be ratified, capped off a memorable weekend for the athlete, who racked up fairly a set of medals over the four-day occasion at Truist Stadium. She completed her first day of competitors final Friday with gold within the 400m (2:35.33) and silver within the 100m  (26.25)—proper on the heels of first-place finisher Betty Stroh. On the identical day, she took gold within the lengthy bounce (1.05m) and the shot put (4.51m). She adopted that up Saturday with gold within the 800m (5:52.93).

Her accomplishments in Greensboro are all of the extra spectacular contemplating they got here only one week after she collected six gold medals on the 2023 Nationwide Senior Video games in Pittsburgh.

75-year-old lady smashes three world age-group information

“I’ve a philosophy that you might be by no means too outdated to do one thing like working or no matter you need to do,” Sowerby advised Greensboro’s Information & File heading into the USATF Masters Outside Championships.  “After I got here alongside, they’d not let ladies in highschool and school run as a result of they thought they had been too fragile or one thing. So, I did my first race after I was 50 years outdated.”

🚨World File Alert!🚨

This previous weekend on the Greyhounds Observe Meet, 90-12 months-Outdated Lenore Montgomery set a brand new World File for the 1500m working an incredible 12:34.67! Congrats Lenore! 👏

*Pending ratification pic.twitter.com/nknGEdzjgp

— BC Athletics (@BC_Athletics) September 16, 2020

Though Sowerby has taken Montgomery’s 1,500m world document, the latter athlete’s identify nonetheless options prominently within the Canadian masters document e-book. Along with her W90 1,500m document, Montgomery holds 11 different out of doors monitor information. These embody the W85 and W95 information within the 800m,  the W75 and W85 within the 1,500m, the W80 and W85 information within the 3,000m, the W70, W75, W80 and W85 within the 5,000m and the W75 document within the 10,000m.