1991 World Masters Athletics Championships
Dates18 - 28 July 1991
Host cityTurku, Finland
VenuePaavo Nurmi Stadium
LevelMasters
TypeOutdoor
Participation4802 athletes from
56[1] nations
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60°26′33″N 22°15′31″E / 60.4425508°N 22.2587239°E / 60.4425508; 22.2587239 (Paavo Nurmi Stadium) 1991 World Masters Athletics Championships is the ninth in a series of World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships (called World Veterans Championships at the time) that took place in Turku, Finland from 18 to 28 July 1991.[1]

The main venue was Paavo Nurmi Stadium. [2]: 18  [3]: 191  Satellite tracks were located in nearby municipalities of Raisio and Kaarina. [2]: 19  [4]: 16 

This edition of masters athletics Championships had a minimum age limit of 35 years for women and 40 years for men. [2]: 1 

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. [5] [6]: 56 

This Championships was organized by WAVA in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC) headed by Sten-Olof Hansen. [1] [2]: 18 

In addition to a full range of track and field events, [7] [8] non-stadia events included 10K Cross Country, 10K Race Walk (women), 20K Race Walk (men), and Marathon.

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. [9] 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  [10]

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. [11] [6]: 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. [12]

Results

Past Championships results are archived at WMA. [13] Additional archives are available from Museum of Masters Track & Field [14] as a pdf book, [15] in pdf newsletters from National Masters News, [2] [4] and as a searchable pdf extracted from the September 1991 newsletter. [16]

Several masters world records were set at this Championships. World records for 1991 are from the lists of World Records in the Museum of Masters Track & Field pdf book, [15]: 9  supplemented by another list of World Records in the September 1991 newsletter. [4]: 11 

The winners from each of the age-group 100m races were invited to participate in a "Special WAVA Age-Graded 100", [4]: 14  where runners were given distance handicaps based on WAVA age-graded tables. [17] [18] The winners were M55 Hugo Hartenstein ( USA) in 10.55 and W40 Geraldine Otto ( GER) in 11.22. [16]: 34 

The blind sprinter Fritz Assmy, now in the M75 class and guided by his grandson, [6]: 52  set new WRs in the 100m and 200m sprints, [3]: 185  running in his assigned lane 8 to avoid getting in the way of other competitors. [4]: 10  [19] He had been guided by his son-in-law in 1977, 1979 and 1981, and by his son in 1983 and 1985. This was his last WAVA Championships; he would not compete in 1993 and would pass away in 2000. [20]

Women

Event Athlete(s) Nationality Performance
W55 100 Meters Corrie Roovers-van den Bosch  NED
13.30
W50 400 Meters Brunhilde Hoffmann  GER
1:02.89
W55 400 Meters Carolyn Sue Cappetta  USA
W60 400 Meters Ann Cooper  AUS
W55 800 Meters Edeltraud Pohl[16]: 36   GER
W55 1500 Meters Edeltraud Pohl[16]: 36   GER
5:12.43
W75 1500 Meters Johanna Luther  GER
W80 1500 Meters Anne Clarke  USA
W45 5000 Meters Elaine Statham  GBR
17:40.77
W50 5000 Meters Ida Hellwagner  AUS
W70 5000 Meters Lenore Marvin  CAN
24:24.32
W45 10000 Meters Elaine Statham  GBR
37:05.16
W60 10000 Meters Marion Irvine  USA
43:23.17
W75 10000 Meters Johanna Luther  GER
W35 2000 Meters Steeplechase Victoria Adams[16]: 38   NZL
7:48.32
W45 2000 Meters Steeplechase Margaret Orman[16]: 38   NZL
7:38.08
W55 2000 Meters Steeplechase Sally Strazdins[16]: 38   USA
9:52.25
W60 2000 Meters Steeplechase Ruth Carrier[16]: 38   CAN
11:04.56
W55 80 Meters Hurdles Corrie Roovers-van den Bosch  NED
W75 80 Meters Hurdles Rosaline Sole[16]: 37 [21]  NZL
W55 300 Meters Hurdles Corrie Roovers-van den Bosch[16]: 37 [22]  NED
W60 300 Meters Hurdles Betty Vosburgh[16]: 37 [3]: 191 [22]  USA
59.78
W65 300 Meters Hurdles Else Laine[16]: 37 [4]: 11   FIN
W40 4 x 100 Meters Relay Ingrid Meier, Geraldine Otto, Anita Bayha, Ellen Hees[4]: 11 [15]: 37   GER
49.45
W45 4 x 100 Meters Relay Karin Koschnitzke, Gerida Seibert, Doris Gallep, Anne-Kathrin Eriksen[4]: 11 [15]: 37   GER
53.05
W55 4 x 100 Meters Relay Edith Heise, Gertrude Muller, Rosemarie Chevalley, Lilo Rollfing[4]: 11 [15]: 37   GER
61.72
W60 4 x 100 Meters Relay Rosemarie Kveiskott, Christa Kreuzwieser, Ruth Hunkel, Christel Franzen[4]: 11 [16]: 38   GER
57.88
W65 4 x 100 Meters Relay Liselotte Schule, Paula Schneiderhan, Johanna Gelbrich, Elizabeth Haule[4]: 11 [15]: 37   GER
67.20
W70 4 x 100 Meters Relay Diane Friedman, Carol Peebles, Pearl Mehl, Marie Stafford[4]: 11 [16]: 38   USA
80.77
W45 4 x 400 Meters Relay Erika Sauer, Doris Gallep, Gerida Seibert, Karin Koschnitzke[4]: 11 [15]: 37   GER
4:29.58
W50 4 x 400 Meters Relay Brunhilde Hoffmann, Ingrid Holzknecht, Gisela Blank, Friderun Kümmerle-Valk[4]: 11 [15]: 37   GER
4:35.77
W55 4 x 400 Meters Relay Kathy McIntyre, Christel Miller, Lucy Ann Brobst, Betty Vosburgh[4]: 11 [16]: 39   USA
5:07.58
W40 5K Race Walk Viisha Sedlak[4]: 11   USA
24:17.2
W50 5K Race Walk Veino Heikkila[4]: 11   FIN
25:54.7
W80 5K Race Walk Margit Lindgren[16]: 42   SWE
38:02.2
W50 Long Jump Christiane Schmalbruch  GER
W70 Long Jump Mary Wixey[16]: 39   GBR
3.40
W35 Triple Jump Arja Jussila[16]: 40   FIN
11.57
W40 Triple Jump Anna Włodarczyk[16]: 40   POL
W50 Triple Jump Helen Ray Searle[16]: 40   AUS
9.77
W70 Triple Jump Mary Wixey[16]: 40   GBR
6.72
W80 Triple Jump Ruth Frith[16]: 40   AUS
5.22
W55 High Jump Taisija Tchentchik  URS
W60 High Jump Elsa Enarsson  SWE
W80 High Jump Margareta Thesleff Sarvana[16]: 39   FIN
0.88
W55 Shot Put Sigrun Kofink[1]  GER
W60 Shot Put Marianne Hamm  GER
11.23
W65 Shot Put Totti Kasekamp  URS
10.06
W70 Shot Put Katerine Smildzina[16]: 40   URS
8.12
W85 Shot Put Irja Sarnama[16]: 40   FIN
5.48
W50 Discus Throw Ljudmila Hmelevskaja  URS
W75 Discus Throw Annchen Reile[16]: 40   GER
20.84
M40 Hammer Throw Inge Faldager[16]: 41   DEN
42.12
W50 Hammer Throw Helen Ray Searle[16]: 41   AUS
41.86
W55 Hammer Throw Antonina Ivanova[16]: 41   URS
40.82
W70 Hammer Throw Ilse Bellin[16]: 41   GER
29.40
W50 Javelin Throw Elvīra Ozoliņa[16]: 41   URS
44.90
W60 Javelin Throw Janina Paksyte[16]: 41   URS
32.24
W65 Javelin Throw Totti Kasekamp[16]: 41   URS
26.54
W75 Javelin Throw Johanna Gelbrich[16]: 41 [23]  GER
22.70
W85 Javelin Throw Irja Sarnama[16]: 41   FIN
W50 Heptathlon Friderun Kümmerle-Valk[16]: 43   GER
5729
W55 Heptathlon Corrie Roovers-van den Bosch  NED
6171

Men

Event Athlete(s) Nationality Performance
M75 100 Meters Fritz Assmy[3]: 191 [4]: 10   GER
14.06
M95 100 Meters Joginder Singh[16]: 34   IND
20.82
M75 200 Meters Fritz Assmy[3]: 191 [4]: 10 [24]  GER
M90 200 Meters Murthy Narayana  IND
M95 200 Meters Joginder Singh[16]: 35   IND
48.42
M60 400 Meters Wilhelm Selzer  GER
57.36
M65 400 Meters Jack Greenwood[3]: 191   USA
1:00.23
M90 400 Meters Murthy Narayana  IND
M70 800 Meters James Lytjen  USA
M95 800 Meters Herbert S. Kirk  USA
6:02.94
M50 5000 Meters Antonio Villanueva  MEX
M70 5000 Meters Warren Utes[3]: 191 [4]: 9 [15]: 19 [25]  USA
M95 5000 Meters Herbert S. Kirk  USA
50:23.53
M50 10000 Meters Ron Robertson  NZL
M60 10000 Meters Luciano Acquarone  ITA
M70 10000 Meters Warren Utes[3]: 191   USA
M50 3000 Meters Steeplechase Ron Robertson[16]: 38   NZL
9:43.97
M70 80 Meters Hurdles Hans Gilli[16]: 37 [21]   SUI
14.42
M75 80 Meters Hurdles Herbert Miller[16]: 37 [21]  USA
M50 100 Meters Hurdles Charley Miller[16]: 37   USA
15.02
M55 100 Meters Hurdles Lars Lindhe[16]: 37 [21]  SWE
15.98
M65 100 Meters Hurdles Jack Greenwood[3]: 191   USA
16.30
M65 300 Meters Hurdles Jack Greenwood[3]: 191 [22]  USA
M75 300 Meters Hurdles Reino Taskinen[22]  FIN
59.89
M80 300 Meters Hurdles Erkki Haapalainen[16]: 37 [4]: 11   FIN
75.99
M45 4 x 100 Meters Relay Josef Bolsinger, Walter Gossmann, Manfred Bellmann, Walter Toscher[4]: 11 [16]: 38   GER
44.74
M55 4 x 100 Meters Relay John Darrell, Matthew Brown, Milton Newton, Hugo Bartenstein[4]: 11 [15]: 36   USA
47.94
M65 4 x 100 Meters Relay Robert Watanabe, Melvin Larsen, Jim Law, Jack Greenwood[4]: 8 : 11 [15]: 37   USA
50.21
M65 4 x 400 Meters Relay Rudolph Valentine, Oscar Harris, Jim Law, Jack Greenwood[4]: 8 : 11 [15]: 37   USA
4:19.18
M75 4 x 100 Meters Relay Pentti Vuorela, Yrjö Hupponen, Reino Taskinen, Ahti Pajunen[4]: 11 [15]: 37   FIN
63.57
M45 5K Race Walk Eero Heman[16]: 42   FIN
21:45.6
M55 5K Race Walk Vladimir Golubnichiy[16]: 42   URS
22:44.5
M60 Marathon Luciano Acquarone  ITA
M70 Long Jump Gudmund Skrivervik  NOR
M95 Long Jump Joginder Singh  IND
21.5
M60 Triple Jump Hermann Strauss  GER
M65 Triple Jump Matti Järvinen  FIN
M70 Triple Jump Gudmund Skrivervik  NOR
10.17
M45 High Jump Mark Gelnov[16]: 39   URS
1.92
M55 High Jump Horst Mandl[16]: 39   AUT
1.77
M80 Pole Vault Ahti Pajunen  FIN
M50 Shot Put Klaus Liedtke[3]: 191   GER
M80 Shot Put Osmo Renvall  FIN
11.00
M95 Shot Put Joginder Singh  IND
6.37
M70 Discus Throw Kauko Jouppila[3]: 191   FIN
47.76
M80 Discus Throw Osmo Renvall  FIN
M95 Discus Throw Joginder Singh  IND
16.12
M65 Hammer Throw Pentti Saarikoski  FIN
51.76
M85 Javelin Throw Masami Okazaki[16]: 41   JPN
22.94
M95 Javelin Throw Joginder Singh  IND
21.16

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  23. ^ Johanna Gelbrich was spelled Hanna Gelbrich in the results
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  25. ^ Warren Utes achieved M70 5000m World Record of 18:43.61 in Heat 1
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