This article is about older athletes competing in the sport of athletics. For older athletes in general, see Senior sport.
Masters athletics is a class of the sport of athletics for athletes of 35 years of age and over. The events include track and field, road running and cross country running. Competitors are bracketed into five-year age groups (which promotes fair competition). For international events the first age group is 35 to 39. Men as old as 105[1] and women in their 100s[2] have competed in running, jumping and throwing events. Masters athletes are sometimes known as "veterans" and the European Masters Championships, for instance, is known as "Eurovets". This and other high level events including biennial World Championships cater largely to elite-level athletes, but many masters athletes are novices to athletics and enjoy the camaraderie offered by masters competition at the local, National and International level. Most National governing bodies for track and field hold annual Masters championships. Prestigious National meets such as the Penn Relays and the United States Olympic Trials (track and field) put on exhibition events for top masters athletes. Masters athletics is growing Internationally with over 6000 athletes competing at recent World Championships. World; National and Regional records are maintained for each age group.
In the United States, USATF (USA Track & Field) hosts various Masters events including National Championships for Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field and Cross Country. USATF adds the age divisions 30–34 as Sub-Masters, and 25–29 as Pre-Masters to give athletes just past college age more opportunities to compete.[3]
^"World's oldest competitive sprinter races his way to new world record at the age of 105". Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records. September 23, 2015. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
^WMA World Records. Archived 2021-09-09 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved Oct. 26, 2020
^"USA Track & Field | USATF Masters Track and Field Adds 25–29 Age Group". Archived from the original on 2021-04-09. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
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