Meet 4 Results are now available – World & Canadian Records broken!
Jun.19, 2011 in
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77 year old Helly Visser of Vancouver, BC tonight, broke the world mile record for her age-group 75-79. The previous world best time was 7:57, Visser ran 7:47. Visser ran the first lap much faster than the pace required, then settled back and ran on pace for over half the race – the 4-lap, 1609m mile distance.
In the men’s 45-49 age-group, Colin Dignum also of Vancouver took down the Canadian 5000m record by running 15:22. The record he needed to beat was 15:27.
More details soon. See (nearly complete) results here.
June 19th, 2011 at 12:30 am
Despite Helly’s amazing run, I’m going to have to pick out Colin Dignum’s 5000m 45-49 age group record as the performance of the night. It was hard to pick though, with so many gritty efforts, especially the back and forth of the elite 5km.
June 19th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
I agree with Jim, I was really impressed with Colin’s pickup over the last 2 laps to overtake Bruce and break the record.