# 2016 World Masters Athletics Championships

31°56′58″S 115°46′55″E﻿ / ﻿31.94950°S 115.78194°E﻿ / -31.94950; 115.78194﻿ (Western Australian Athletics Stadium)
2016 World Masters Athletics Championships is the 22nd in a series of World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships that took place in Perth, Australia from 26 October to 6 November 2016. Prior to this year, the championships in this biennial series were in odd-numbered years. Beginning in 2016, the championships were held in even-numbered years. The change was made to avoid conflict with the quadrennial World Masters Games, which had been held in odd-numbered years since 2005.
The main venue was Western Australian Athletics Stadium, which had a nine-lane mondotrack laid in 2014. Supplemental venues included Ern Clark Athletic Centre, which also had a recently-upgraded eight-lane mondotrack. Road walks and cross country were held at Alderbury and Perry Lakes Reserves in Floreat. Half marathon and marathon followed the banks of the Swan River, with start and finish at the WA Water Sports Club. HBF Stadium served as the technical information centre. Welcoming ceremony was held at Elizabeth Quay.
This championship was organized by World Masters Athletics (WMA) in coordination with a local organising committee.
The WMA is the global governing body of the sport of athletics for athletes 35 years of age or older, setting rules for masters athletics competition. At the general assembly during this championship, a motion was passed to change two events after this edition of the series:
* The marathon would be replaced by a half marathon.
* The 10K road race would be replaced by the 10K race walk.
In addition to a full range of track and field events, non-stadia events included 8K cross country, 10K race walk, 20K race walk, half marathon, and marathon.

## Results

Official results are archived at perth2016. Past championships results are archived at WMA. Additional archives are available from British Masters Athletic Federation
in HTML format, from Český atletický as a searchable pdf, from documents.pub as a searchable pdf, and from Masters Athletics Western Australia as a pdf book.
Masters world records set at this championships are listed below and are from the list of world records in the pdf book unless otherwise noted.$^{:5}$ More complete lists of medalists are contained in separate articles for women and for men.

### Women

World records are listed below.
| Event | Athlete(s) | Nationality | Performance |
| W70 400 metres | Aletta Ungerer | RSA | 1:13.97 |
| W65 800 metres | Sabra Harvey | USA | 2:39.61 |
| W65 5000 metres | Kathryn Martin | USA | 20:08.17 |
| W70 80 metres hurdles | Marianne Maier | AUT | 15.72 |
| W80 80 metres hurdles | Irene Obera | USA | 18.70 |
| W65 2K steeplechase | Kathryn Martin | USA | 8:57.54 |
| W75 2K steeplechase | Xuhua Chen | CHN | 11:30.55 |
| W80 2K steeplechase | Anne Martin | GBR | 13:38.80 |
| W85 2K steeplechase | Clasina Van der Veeken | NZL | 18:30.80 |
| W85 5K race walk | Christiane Dauphinet | AUS | 41:20.34 |
| W90 5K race walk | Elena Pagu | ROU | 44:28.33 |
| W90 10K race walk | Elena Pagu | ROU | 1:31:21 |
| W70 20K race walk | Elsa Meyer | RSA | 2:10:58 |
| W75 20K race walk | Vey Hildegard | RSA | 2:33:39 |
| W65 4 × 400 metres relay | Paula Moorhouse, Carol Davis, Kathryn Heagney, Lyn Peake$^{:58}$ | AUS | 5:06.10 |
| W65 4 × 400 metres relay | Rosalind Tabor, Janette Stevenson, Hendricka White, Caroline Marler$^{:58}$ | GBR | 5:12.77 |
| W80 4 × 400 metres relay | Mary Harada, Christel Donley, Irene Obera, Jean Daprano$^{:59}$ | USA | 8:26.42 |
| W75 high jump | Kathy Bergen | USA | 1.22 |
| W80 heptathlon | Irene Obera | USA | 6071 |
| W45 half marathon | Carla Machado | POR | 1:22:07 |
| W45 half marathon | Hong Li | CHN | 1:23:12 |
| W50 half marathon | Sally Gibbs | NZL | 1:22:02 |
| W50 half marathon | Zohra Graziani | FRA | 1:28:14 |
| W50 half marathon | Soledad Castro Soliño | ESP | 1:28:28 |
| W55 half marathon | Robyn Basman | AUS | 1:30:45 |
| W55 half marathon | Janet Ferguson | AUS | 1:33:02 |
| W60 half marathon | Johanna Clarkson | AUS | 1:42:50 |
| W60 half marathon | Helen Stanley | AUS | 1:43:16 |
| W60 half marathon | Joy Radford | GBR | 1:45:05 |
| W65 half marathon | Kristiina Huttunen | FIN | 1:51:52 |
| W70 half marathon | Lavinia Petrie | AUS | 1:41:00 |
| W80 half marathon | Sally Gibbs | NZL | 1:22:02 |

### Men

World records are listed below.
| Event | Athlete(s) | Nationality | Performance |
| M85 4 × 400 metres relay | Jinbiao Wang, Guiben Sun, Zhiyong Wang, Pengxue Su$^{:59}$ | CHN | 8:35.23 |
| M75 2K steeplechase | Jean-Louis Esnault | FRA | 8:50.65 |
| M50 half marathon | Paul Thompson | GBR | 1:12:48 |
| M50 half marathon | Bruce Graham | AUS | 1:14:58 |
| M50 half marathon | John Meagher | AUS | 1:15:59 |
| M55 half marathon | David Sweeney | AUS | 1:13:42 |
| M55 half marathon | John Meagher | KEN | 1:15:15 |
| M70 half marathon | Jean Claude Demarque | FRA | 1:31:34 |
| M70 half marathon | Albert Anderegg | SUI | 1:32:20 |
| M70 half marathon | Martin Ford | GBR | 1:37:28 |
| M70 half marathon | Donald Mathewson | AUS | 1:37:33 |
| M80 half marathon | Roger Bardin | FRA | 2:12:53 |
| M55 throws pentathlon | Burton Haupt | RSA | 4800 |