1989_World_Masters_Athletics_Championships

1989 World Masters Athletics Championships

1989 World Masters Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

44.0424068°N 123.070692°W / 44.0424068; -123.070692 (Hayward Field)

Silke Field

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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, [2] known as the "Track Capital of the World" and as TrackTown USA. [3]: 181  Athletes from the Soviet Union participated for the first time in this series. [4]: 40  [3]: 182  [5]: 51 

The main venue was Hayward Field, [4]: 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. [6]: 19  [4]: 38  This championships was considered a bigger sporting event than those Olympic trials. [7]: 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. [1]: 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. [4]: 39  [3]: 187  [1]: 5 : 14  [5]: 51  The closing ceremonies was considered more moving than that of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [4]: 41 

This edition of masters athletics Championships had a minimum age limit of 35 years for women and 40 years for men. [8] [7]: 3  [4]: 38 

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. [9] [5]: 56 

This Championships was organized by WAVA in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Tom Jordan, Barbara Kousky. [2] [4]: 37 

In addition to a full range of track and field events, [10] [11] 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. [7]: 8  [4]: 38  In the stadia events, the Pentathlon was replaced by Decathlon for men and by Heptathlon for women, [6]: 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. [12]

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. [13] 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 [3]: 167  [14]

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. [15] [5]: 50  [3]: 181  Thus South African athletes were officially banned from these Championships, and would not be welcomed back until the 1993 edition in Miyazaki, [3]: 185  after the abolition of apartheid and the readmittance of South Africa into IAAF in 1992. [16]

Results

Past Championships results are archived at WMA. [17] Additional archives are available from Museum of Masters Track & Field [18] as a pdf book, [1] as a searchable pdf, [19] and in pdf newsletters from National Masters News. [6] [4]

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[1]: 9  unless otherwise noted.

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References

  1. [1]
    "Results of the VIII World Veterans' Championships" (PDF). Museum of Masters Track & Field.
  2. [2]
    "Outdoor". World Masters Athletics.
  3. [3]
    Olson, Leonard T. (November 29, 2000). Masters Track and Field: A History. McFarland. ISBN 0786408898.
  4. [4]
    "City of Eugene Embraces Athletes In Best Ever World Championships" (PDF). National Masters News. Museum of Masters Track & Field. September 1989.
  5. [5]
    Kusy, Krzysztof; Zieliński, Jacek (January 2006). Parzy, Wiesława (ed.). Masters athletics. Social, biological and practical aspects of veterans sport. Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu/Poznan University of Physical Education. ISBN 83-88923-69-2. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. [6]
    "Record 5000 Athletes From 58 Nations Enter VIII World Veterans Championships in Eugene" (PDF). National Masters News. Museum of Masters Track & Field. July 1989.
  7. [7]
    "VIII WORLD VETERANS CHAMPIONSHIPS" (PDF). Museum of Masters Track & Field. Oregon Daily Herald. July 26, 1989.
  8. [8]
    "Elder athletes ready for meet". United Press International. July 26, 1989.
  9. [9]
    "WORLD MASTERS (VETERANS) CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN)". gbrathletics.com. Athletics Weekly.
  10. [10]
    Martin Gasselsberger. "WMA World Masters Athletics RULES OF COMPETITION". Masters Athletics.
  11. [11]
    "World Masters Athletic Championships". Wellington Masters Athletics.
  12. [12]
    "Looking Back: The First US Women's Steeplechase". steeplechics. October 30, 2008.
  13. [13]
    Robert Trumbull (July 23, 1976). "South Africa Expelled by Track Body". The New York Times.
  14. [14]
    "Proposed Constitution for the World Masters Track and Field Association" (PDF). USMITT. Museum of Masters Track & Field. August 1977. p. 9.
  15. [15]
    "Rain, Wind and Cold Fail to Dampen Spirit of VII World Veterans Games" (PDF). National Masters News. Museum of Masters Track & Field. January 1988. p. 14.
  16. [16]
    "South Africa Track Gets Approval for Games : Olympics: IAAF's backing leaves all the country's sports in good standing for Barcelona". Associated Press. L.A. Times. May 30, 1992.
  17. [17]
    "Championships Outdoor". World Masters Athletics. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
  18. [18]
    "Results: World Outdoor Championships, Other Internationals". Museum of Masters Track & Field. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
  19. [19]
    "VIII World Veterans Championships" (PDF). National Masters News. Museum of Masters Track & Field.
  20. [20]
    Elżbieta Krzesińska was misclassified in W55 in the results
  21. [21]
    "Austria's Gertrude Schoenauer set a world W50 javelin record in Eugene with a throw of 43.82" (PDF). National Masters News. Museum of Masters Track & Field. January 1990.
  22. [22]
    Alfred Guidet achieved M70 80m Hurdles World Record of 14.50 in Heat 2
  23. [23]
    Richard Katus placed 2nd to Stan Druckrey in M40 110m Hurdles
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