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3000 m walk (track) 11:12.23+ Evan Dunfee: 18 June 2021 Pacific Distance Carnival Burnaby, Canada [43] 5000 m walk (track) 18:39.08 Evan Dunfee: 18 June 2021 Pacific Distance Carnival Burnaby, Canada 10,000 m walk (track) 38:25.42 Evan Dunfee: 28 January 2024 Supernova Canberra, Australia [44] 10 km walk (road) 39:21+ Inaki Gomez: 20 March 2016
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of over 35 years of age. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running.These are the current world records in various five-year-groups, maintained by WMA, the World Association of Masters Athletes, which is designated by the World Athletics (formerly IAAF) to conduct the worldwide sport of Masters ...
The Canadian Track and Field Championships (French: Championnats Canadiens d'Athlétisme) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by Athletics Canada, which serves as the Canadian national championship for the sport. The competition was first held in 1884 as a men's only event, with women's events being introduced in 1925.
Olga Kotelko (2 March 1919 – 24 June 2014) was a Canadian track and field athlete. [1] She held over 30 world records [2] and won over 750 gold medals in her age category for the Masters competition, age 90–95, and was considered "one of the world's greatest athletes" as a result. [3]
This category is for the sport of athletics, comprising track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking. It is not to be used for competitors in other sports or to categorize anyone who is physically fit , two other meanings associated with the word athletics .
World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians.
The Canadian Track and Field Championships have their roots in Montreal. During the 1870s the Montreal Lacrosse Club held annual and semi-annual track and field competitions. [1] In some years these served as the Canadian Track and Field Championships, with the first national championships taking place at Montreal on September 27, 1884.
USA Track & Field (in 2021) added the 25–29 age bracket for the USA National Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Age 30–34 is already competing at the USA National Masters Outdoor Track and Field Championship. [18] World Masters Athletics Championships began August 1975 in Canada and continue to today. [19]