The nominees for AMA awards based on performances achieved in 2009 have been announced. Winners will be announced at the dinner function at the Perth Championships.
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Australian Masters Athletics
Australian Masters Athletics Inc. promotes active healthy athletics competition through a network of State and Territory clubs, plus local clubs in some areas. Wherever you are in Australia, you can join and become a regenerated athlete and compete against others of your own era and/or capabilities at club, state, national and international level. Contact your State or Territory Secretary for more information or visit their individual web sites.
Australian Masters Athletics Awards Nominees
March 29th, 2010 by AMA Webmaster No comments »Web site features and improvements
March 29th, 2010 by AMA Webmaster No comments »The Australian Masters Athletics site has moved to a new hosting platform. Visible changes at this time are minor, but it does allow greater scope for new features. There is new site search functionality, and for those who are technically inclined, they can follow content updates through an RSS feed.
So what ideas do Australian masters athletes have for their site? Leave a comment, send an email to the webmaster, or tap me (Ernie Leseberg) on the shoulder between track events in Perth.
Postal Relay Results 2010
March 27th, 2010 by AMA Webmaster No comments »The results for the 2010 AMA postal relays are now available. This year 187 teams were entered up from 104 in 2009. A fantastic result. There were 42 new best performances produced although some of these occurred where a relay was conducted in an age category for the first time. eg M80-89.
AMA Champs 2010 Latest Update
March 9th, 2010 by AMA Webmaster No comments »The organisers for the AMA Championships for Perth in April, have released a March news update. This includes an important update on accommodation availability, the awards dinner, registration and a timetable for buses to the venue.
UPDATE: Entries have now closed for the championships. A very large number of entries have been received, and the organising comittee is now finalising the timetable of events. This and a detailed programme with all competitors will be available from this site by the middle of the month.
Kamloops Championships Final Day
March 8th, 2010 by AMA Webmaster No comments »The 2010 WMA World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships came to a close Saturday after a sixth straight day of amazing and inspirational competition at the Tournament Capital Centre.
Over and over, Kamloops spectators have commented about what positive role models the 1,400 athletes who gathered here have been – not just to the youth who have come out to watch, but to the adults in the crowd as well. Every athlete who took part has been inspirational just by having the courage to get out there, and by having the commitment to live active, healthy lifestyles.
Even more inspirational are those who not only get out and do it, but do it well. There have been several multi-medal winning athletes this week. Several have stood atop the podium on more than one occasion.
40 aussies entered, 36 arrived and competed, 30 going home with medal, 2 with world records. Overall 5th on the medal tally, with Great Britian only just in front and they had more than 2x as many athletes.
All 6 Australian relay teams medalled.
Marie Kay finished with five gold medals in the W50, the last one coming Saturday when she won the 400m in a time of 62.96. Peter Crombie took home three medals in the M65, two gold and one silver – the latter coming when he was second in the 400m with a time of 62.36. Rad Leovic M80 finished with more medals than many European countries.
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Kamloops Day 5
March 8th, 2010 by AMA Webmaster No comments »
U.S. machine is leading with 240 medals – 105 gold, 78 silver and 57 bronze. Canada is close behind at 210 medals, including 70 gold, 76 silver and 64 bronze. Germany (38 gold, 25 silver, 31 bronze, 94 total), Australia (18 gold, 13 silver, 16 bronze, 47 total) and Great Britain (16 gold, 24 silver, 13 bronze, 53 total) round out the top five.
The Aussies were glad to see teammate Heather Carr win her second gold medal of the meet when she captured the W60 division of the 10K Race Walk on Friday. Carr crossed the finish line with a time of 56 minutes 17.1 seconds. Earlier this week she won the W60 3,000m Race Walk in a world-record time of 15:54.75. After Friday’s race, Carr went directly to the Kamloops Airport to begin the return trip home to Melbourne— a sad journey, as she is going home for the funeral of her mother, who died on Feb. 25, the eve of Carr’s trip to Kamloops.
» Read more: Kamloops Day 5