Over the weekend, on the Alberta Indoor Monitor and Subject Championships on the Butterdome in Edmonton, Alberta’s 90-year-old Roger Davies shot to a brand new Canadian age-group indoor 1,500m report, operating 8:41.27 in a solo effort to shatter the earlier mark by almost two minutes.
The time additionally went beneath Davies’s personal outside nationwide 1,500m report of 9:24.97which he set final summer season en path to the Canadian title on the Canadian Masters Championships in Quebec. The previous indoor report of 10:33.10, set by B.C.’s Harry Thompsonhad stood since 2013.
The masters athlete wasn’t operating on contemporary legs; on Saturday, he additionally raced the 800m, stopping the clock in 4:49.25 after one other solo effort.
The present M90 1,500m world report of seven:55.12 was set on the 2025 World Masters Athletics Indoor Championships in Gainesville, Fla., by Mongolia’s Radnaa Tserenwho captured six gold medals altogether (60m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1,500m and triple bounce) and likewise broke the M90 200m world report.
A profitable 12 months for Davies
When setting the outside 1,500m report in 2025, Davies took down a mark additionally belonging to Thompson, slicing greater than a minute off the 12-year-old report. Davies already holds the Canadian report within the M80 mile (6:59.57) and 20 provincial data for Alberta in a number of age teams, starting from 800m to 10,000m.
See right here for outcomes from the Alberta championships.
Paula Suchowiecka breaks two data in a single weekend
The identical weekend, on the 2026 Canadian Indoor Monitor & Subject Championships in Toronto, Ontario’s W35 star Paula Suchowiecka took down two nationwide age-group marks on back-to-back days. On Saturday, the Masters of Pace Athletics sprinter fell simply in need of the open girls’s 60m podium, operating 7.49 seconds for fourth total. Olympian Sadé McCreath claimed the title.
Suchowiecka’s run shaved 0.06 seconds off the W35 60m Canadian report of seven.55, set by Quebec’s Martine Cloutier-LeBlanc in 2016.
The next day, Suchowiecka received the ladies’s 200m outright, operating 25.03 seconds to take down three-time Olympic hurdler Angela Whyte’s official W35 report of 25.43, set in 2018. (Suchowiecka had additionally gone beneath that report final month with a 25.23, a time which had been pending ratification.)
Suchowiecka already holds the Canadian W35 data within the 50m (6.54) and 100m Canadian W35 data (11.86).
See right here for outcomes from the Canadian championships.
