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With the recent election of Margit Jungmann to the position of President at the Malaga World Championships, there has also been the change that brings Lynne Schickert into the vacant position left by Margit of Executive Vice-President.   The above Photo courtesy of Lutwin Jungmann. Left to right – Back row: Kurt Kaschke (regional representative ...

Whilst we all read with amazement that well over 1,500 of the world’s best Masters Age Category sprinters would compete in Malaga, there was one M45 sprinter who was very pleased to be able to be here at all; whose story is so inspirational and who has shown supreme courage to fight back from a ...

When Great Britain M65 sprinter John Browne began racing in Masters athletics, his son Johnathan was just ten years old. John has been a top 100 metres Masters sprinter in Britain for 25 years. At the World Masters Athletics Championships in Malaga, he competed in the M65 100 metres and placed 6th. However, later the ...

Saturday 8 September 2018 was a picture-perfect day for around 400 athletes including approximately 160 Masters competitors entered for the 30th IAU 100K, the WMA 100K World Championships and the 6th Croatian National Championships, held at Sveti Martin na Muri in Croatia, 180 km north east of Zagreb. The event was situated in the heart of ...

Margit Jungmann (Germany) to lead the World Masters At the biennial General Assembly held on 8 September, a competition rest day, over 140 Delegates voted the Chairwoman of the Masters Committee of the German Athletic Federation into the demanding role as President and leader of our now 171 Member Nations. She becomes the first female ...

We are pleased to announce that today at the General Assembly the current Executive Vice President Margit Jungmann was voted in as the new Elected President, replacing Stan Perkins at the end of the Malaga Championships. Before the current championships we met up with Margit to get to know her a little more, below you ...

We are pleased to confirm Gothenburg have been awarded the 2022 Outdoor World Masters Athletics Championships. You can see below their wonderful presentation   The Official Edmonton Championships site – http://masters2022.com/   ...

We are pleased to Confirm Edmonton have been awarded the 2021 Indoor Wordl Masters Championships. You can see below their wonderful presentation.   The official Edmonton site – WWW.WMA2021.COM   ...

As the three candidates seeking election as President and World leader of Masters Athletics for at least the next four years, set out their stall in front of the voting Delegates at an open Forum last night, each faced a barrage of questions from the Delegates on their plans for the future of WMA, relations ...

On the morning of 3 September, 2018 the WMA President, Stan Perkins and Secretary, Maria Alfaro, were called to a meeting at their hotel in Malaga with the Secretary General of the RFEA (Spanish Athletics Federation) Jose Luis de Carlos. Also present was Pierre Weiss who is the IAAF Representative on the WMA Council. It ...

Malaga welcomes the World The President of the LOC Raúl Chapado; WMA outgoing President Stan Perkins, supported by key members of the LOC and WMA, were visibly relieved as they address the Representatives from a record-breaking 100-plus countries to the biennial World Masters Athletics Track & Field Championships in the beautiful city of Malaga. They ...

At World Masters Athletics we are lucky to have the work provided by John Seto of MasterRankings.com. Below John provided us with details of the rankings systems and also where you can see the current world leads, and see how far you are away!  Will they be broken whilst we are here at the   ...