# 1989 World Masters Athletics Championships

44°02′33″N 123°04′14″W﻿ / ﻿44.0424068°N 123.070692°W﻿ / 44.0424068; -123.070692﻿ (Hayward Field)
1989 World Masters Athletics Championships is the eighth in a series of World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships (called World Veterans Championships at the time) that took place from 27 July to 6 August 1989 in Eugene, Oregon,
known as the "Track Capital of the World" and as TrackTown USA. $^{:181}$ Athletes from the Soviet Union participated for the first time in this series. $^{:40}$ $^{:182}$ $^{:51}$
The main venue was Hayward Field, $^{:19}$ which had hosted the United States track and field Olympic trials in 1972, 1976, and 1980. Some stadia events were held at Silke Field in adjacent Springfield. $^{:19}$ $^{:38}$ This championships was considered a bigger sporting event than those Olympic trials. $^{:8}$ Four-time Olympic Champion Al Oerter called these Championships "more like the Olympics than the Olympics", since participating athletes consistently outnumber those at the Olympic Games track and field events. The 4951 participants at this year's "world's largest track meet" dwarfed the 1617 athletics competitors at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. $^{:3}$ The 1968 Summer Olympics 1500m gold medalist Kipchoge Keino carried a friendship torch into the stadium to light an Olympic-style flame during opening ceremonies on Friday, 26 July. $^{:39}$ $^{:187}$ $^{:5}$$^{:14}$ $^{:51}$ The closing ceremonies was considered more moving than that of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. $^{:41}$
This edition of masters athletics Championships had a minimum age limit of 35 years for women and 40 years for men.
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The governing body of this series is World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA). WAVA was formed during meeting at the inaugural edition of this series at Toronto in 1975, then officially founded during the second edition in 1977, then renamed as World Masters Athletics (WMA) at the Brisbane Championships in 2001.
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This Championships was organized by WAVA in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Tom Jordan, Barbara Kousky.
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In addition to a full range of track and field events,
non-stadia events included 10K Cross Country, 10K Race Walk (women), 20K Race Walk (men), and Marathon. Another non-stadia event was new for this series: a 10K Road Race, run through the streets of Eugene. $^{:8}$ $^{:38}$ In the stadia events, the Pentathlon was replaced by Decathlon for men and by Heptathlon for women, $^{:17}$ and women's steeplechase was introduced for the first time; the distance was 2K though the barrier height was the same as the men's at 91.4 cm for this Championships.

## South Africa

South Africa had been expelled by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) in 1976 due to the apartheid policy of the South African government at that time.
The participation of South African athletes in WAVA competitions had been at odds with the IAAF, specifically due to the 1977 WAVA constitution which had stated that $^{:167}$
   no competitor be barred because of race, religion, ethnic background, or national origin.
As a compromise, South Africans often competed at these Championships under the flag of other nations before 1987.
During General Assembly at the 1987 Championships, WAVA delegates approved a motion to amend the WAVA constitution and exclude countries whose national federation is suspended by the IAAF.
$^{:50}$ $^{:181}$ Thus South African athletes were officially banned from these Championships, and would not be welcomed back until the 1993 edition in Miyazaki, $^{:185}$ after the abolition of apartheid and the readmittance of South Africa into IAAF in 1992.

## Results

Past Championships results are archived at WMA.
Additional archives are available from Museum of Masters Track & Field
as a pdf book,
as a searchable pdf,
and in pdf newsletters from National Masters News.
Several masters world records were set at this Championships. World records for 1989 are from the list of World Records in the Museum of Masters Track & Field pdf book$^{:9}$ unless otherwise noted.
Key: Wind aided

### Women

| Event | Athlete(s) | Nationality | Performance |
| W60 100 Meters | Shirley Peterson$^{:1}$ | NZL | 14.57 |
| W40 200 Meters | Phil Raschker | USA | 24.84 |
| W55 200 Meters | Irene Obera | USA | 28.48 |
| W60 200 Meters | Shirley Peterson | NZL | 30.15 |
| W65 200 Meters | Paula Schneiderhan | FRG | 31.65 |
| W55 400 Meters | Irene Obera | USA | 66.99 |
| W60 400 Meters | Ann Cooper | AUS | 68.00 |
| W65 400 Meters | Anna Mangler | FRG | 1:13.71 |
| W45 800 Meters | Carol Flexer | USA | 2:52.66 |
| W60 800 Meters | Ann Cooper | AUS | 2:52.66 |
| W65 800 Meters | Anna Mangler | FRG | 3:03.10 |
| W70 800 Meters | Britta Tibbling | SWE | 3:14.90 |
| W75 800 Meters | Johanna Luther | FRG | 3:32.98 |
| W45 1500 Meters | Barbara Lehmann | FRG | 4:45.84 |
| W70 1500 Meters | Britta Tibbling | SWE | 6:39.04 |
| W75 1500 Meters | Johanna Luther | FRG | 7:09.72 |
| W45 5000 Meters | Joan Colman | USA | 17:45.03 |
| W55 5000 Meters | Marion Irvine | USA | 19:32.07 |
| W60 5000 Meters | Shirley Brasher | AUS | 20:51.63 |
| W70 5000 Meters | Pat Dixon | USA | 24:52.83 |
| W75 5000 Meters | Johanna Luther | FRG | 25:43.39 |
| W45 10000 Meters | Elaine Statham | GBR | 37:34.45 |
| W65 10000 Meters | Rosamund Dashwood | CAN | 46:54.87 |
| W70 10000 Meters | Pat Dixon | USA | 50:28.33 |
| W75 10000 Meters | Johanna Luther | FRG | 53:20.50 |
| W50 80 Meters Hurdles | Elżbieta Krzesińska$^{:190}$ | POL | 14.06 |
| W55 300 Meters Hurdles | Wanda Sakata Dos Santos | BRA | 55.40 |
| W45 400 Meters Hurdles | Marjorie Hocknell | GBR | 1:06.02 |
| W40 Triple Jump | Phil Raschker | USA | 11.35 |
| W50 Triple Jump | Elżbieta Krzesińska$^{:4}$$^{:190}$ | POL | 9.68 |
| W40 High Jump | Yordanka Blagoeva | BUL | 1.67 |
| W45 High Jump | Joanna Meryl Smallwood | GBR | 1.55 |
| W45 High Jump | Christel Häuser | FRG | 1.55 |
| W60 High Jump | Christiane Wippersteg$^{:4}$ | FRG | 1.23 |
| W40 Long Jump | Silke Mattelson | FRG | 5.37 |
| W50 Long Jump | Elżbieta Krzesińska$^{:190}$ | POL | 4.60 |
| W55 Shot Put | Rosemary Chrimes | GBR | 11.94 |
| W60 Shot Put | Marianne Hamm | FRG | 10.89 |
| W55 Discus Throw | Rosemary Chrimes | GBR | 40.86 |
| W60 Shot Put | Marianne Hamm | FRG | 32.68 |
| W75 Shot Put | Johanna Gelbrich | FRG | 19.44 |
| W50 Javelin Throw | Gertrude Schoenauer | AUT | 43.82 |
| W60 Javelin Throw | Rachel Hanssens | BEL | 30.58 |

### Men

| Event | Athlete(s) | Nationality | Performance |
| M40 100 Meters | Eddie Hart | USA | 10.87 |
| M40 200 Meters | Eddie Hart | USA | 21.74 |
| M50 200 Meters | Reginald Austin | AUS | 22.88 |
| M55 200 Meters | Ron Taylor | GBR | 23.03 |
| M40 400 Meters | James King$^{:187}$ | USA | 48.44 |
| M60 400 Meters | Jack Greenwood$^{:189}$ | USA | 57.64 |
| M65 400 Meters | Tom Hishon | USA | 61.29 |
| M50 800 Meters | Alan Bradford | AUS | 2:00.40 |
| M55 800 Meters | Tom Roberts | AUS | 2:05.07 |
| M90 800 Meters | Paul Spangler$^{:188}$$^{:2}$ | USA | 4:48.89 |
| M40 1500 Meters | Wilson Waigwa$^{:187}$ | KEN | 3:49.47 |
| M60 1500 Meters | Derek Turnbull$^{:188}$ | NZL | 4:28.66 |
| M70 1500 Meters | John Gilmour$^{:188}$ | AUS | 5:09.73 |
| M90 1500 Meters | Paul Spangler$^{:188}$$^{:2}$ | USA | 9:30.76 |
| M50 5000 Meters | Dan Conway | USA | 15:43.58 |
| M70 5000 Meters | John Gilmour$^{:188}$ | AUS | 18:46.62 |
| M75 5000 Meters | Alfred Funk | USA | 20:55.39 |
| M90 5000 Meters | Paul Spangler$^{:40}$$^{:188}$ | USA | 37:39.38 |
| M55 10000 Meters | Norman Green$^{:189}$ | USA | 33:00.66 |
| M90 10000 Meters | Paul Spangler$^{:188}$ | USA | 1:11:40.78 |
| M70 2000 Meters Steeplechase | Daniel Buckley$^{:189}$$^{:3}$ | USA | 8:59.97 |
| M50 3000 Meters Steeplechase | Nils Undersåker | NOR | 9:50.96 |
| M70 80 Meters Hurdles | Alfred Guidet$^{:38}$ | USA | 14.50 |
| M80 80 Meters Hurdles | Karl Trei | CAN | 17.29 |
| M50 100 Meters Hurdles | Charles Miller | USA | 14.66 |
| M55 100 Meters Hurdles | Richard Hickmann | USA | 15.28 |
| M40 110 Meters Hurdles | Stan Druckrey$^{:187}$ | USA | 14.24 |
| M40 110 Meters Hurdles | Richard Katus | POL | 14.63 |
| M60 300 Meters Hurdles | Jack Greenwood$^{:189}$ | USA | 43.49 |
| M70 300 Meters Hurdles | Daniel Buckley$^{:189}$$^{:3}$ | USA | 52.44 |
| M40 400 Meters Hurdles | James King$^{:187}$ | USA | 52.76 |
| M50 4 x 100 Meters Relay | Ken Dennis, Gilbert LaTorre, Martyn Adamson, Robert Miller$^{:12}$$^{:87}$ | USA | 45.36 |
| M70 4 x 100 Meters Relay | Jeff Bloomfield, Nathaniel Heard, Bill Weinacht, Payton Jordan$^{:14}$$^{:87}$ | USA | 45.36 |
| M40 4 x 400 Meters Relay | Daniel Thiel, Kenneth Brinker, Richard Tucker, James King$^{:22}$$^{:88}$ | USA | 3:21.54 |
| M50 4 x 400 Meters Relay | Jackson Steffes, James Mathis, Martyn Adamson, Larry Colbert$^{:23}$$^{:88}$ | USA | 3:35.88 |
| M60 4 x 400 Meters Relay | Bernard Stevens, Charles Socher, Jim Law, Jack Greenwood$^{:24}$ | USA | 3:58.43 |
| M70 4 x 400 Meters Relay | Jeff Bloomfield, Payton Jordan, Jay Sponseler, Bill Weinacht$^{:24}$ | USA | 4:35.07 |
| M75 Long Jump | Morita Masumi | JPN | 4.37 |
| M80 Long Jump | Gulab Singh$^{:188}$ | IND | 3.95 |
| M40 Triple Jump | Milan Tiff | USA | 15.70 |
| M55 Triple Jump | Olavi Niemi$^{:4}$ | FIN | 12.63 |
| M60 High Jump | James Gillcrist | USA | 1.66 |
| M75 High Jump | Esko Kolhonen | FIN | 1.44 |
| M80 High Jump | Gulab Singh$^{:188}$ | IND | 1.21 |
| M60 Shot Put | Torsten Von Wachenfeldt | SWE | 14.49 |
| M75 Shot Put | Ross Carter | USA | 12.45 |
| M65 Hammer Throw | Eino Anttila | FIN | 48.56 |
| M50 Discus Throw | Al Oerter$^{:187}$ | USA | 62.74 |
| M50 Javelin Throw | Bill Morales | USA | 46.18 |