Seventy-Eight-year-old Helly Visser who competed in The Q’s Victoria Track Series during the 2011 season is now training for the yearly outdoor Canadian Masters Athletics Competition, that will take place in Saint John, New Brunswick. At the same time it is also North-Central American, Caribbean & Canadian Masters Track & Field Championships. The events take place, August 9-12, Saint John NB.

Visser received the Master of the year in Track & Field for 2011 from Athletics Alberta. Visser said, “I want to thank you again for the good competition I had in Victoria. I am also one of three ladies nominated for the Canadian Track and Field Athlete of the Year”.

Visser competed in the 70-79 age-group in the Q’s Victoria Track Series and took a world age-group record, while being nearly 80-years-of-age (78).