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Outdoor 100 Meter 34.50 0.1 Stanisław Kowalski Poland: 105 27 June 2015 Torun, Poland [6] Current M 105 Outdoor Shot Put (3 kg) 3.25 Hidekichi Miyazaki Japan: 105 23 September 2015 Kyoto, Japan [6] Not Ratified M 105 Outdoor Shot Put (3 kg) 4.27 Stanisław Kowalski Poland: 105 28 June 2015 Torun, Poland [citation needed] Current M 105 Outdoor
The most recent outdoor world meet was in 2011 in Sacramento, California. The most recent Indoor Championships were held in Jyväskylä, Finland in April 2012. WAVA, as it was known, later changed its name to World Masters Athletics and continues to be the sport's governing body.
In the sport of athletics, centenarian competitors were recorded in the early 20th century, and have become increasingly common in the 21st century. This has occurred during a period of population ageing and increased longevity in wealthy countries, alongside a corresponding development of masters track and field competitions, such as the Senior Olympics and the World Masters Athletics ...
However, sports historians today acknowledge the 1906 edition to be the first official men's national indoor championships. [1] The men's and women's championships have been held jointly since 1965. Following professionalization of the sport, the running of the national championships was taken over by The Athletics Congress of the USA (TAC ...
Indoor championships (World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships, World Masters Athletics Championships Indoor, or WMACi) started at Sindelfingen, Germany, March 10–14, 2004. [5] The 2020 edition was scheduled to take place at the York Lions Stadium and Varsity Stadium in Toronto, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]
Various indoor games, including billiards, snooker and pool, are played on a large, flat, cloth-covered table with six pockets. In these games, each of the two players tries to pot the balls (knock them into the pockets) by striking them with a cue-ball, which is hit with the tip of a stick called a cue.
In June 1970 the first Senior Olympics took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum (1970 known as Senior Sports International Meet). [3] The games continued in the 1970s and 1980s in the Los Angeles and Orange County, California. [4] Today the meet is known as the Senior Games (or Senior Olympics). The Senior Games are now held in every state in the ...
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]