It’s been a while

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Thank you to everyone reaching out over the past several months. Sorry there haven’t been many posts or newsletters (click to subscribe). You may know that, since taking on compiling World Rankings in 2014, I have been working on many things at once like developing relationships, increasing awareness for the site, working with world, regional and national representatives, gathering results, programming website pages and functions that process gathered results and much more. Some of the things have progressed far enough that I started to work on getting caught up on backlog of meet results inserting and communications (contact posts through website and emails) plus refined ways you can help insert results – that will make these lists even better!

Whether you are a newcomer to this site or a fan for years, you can still garner something from this article and links! Much has changed and improved over the past few months; the site is hugely different than some of you who visited a few pages years ago saw. Please take the time to read this article and peruse the site – it will enhance your understanding of this vast resource. Together, we will take this site to the next level with better understanding.

World Masters Rankings Includes Everyone!

This site is for you regardless whether you are an exceptional athlete striving for records or just running around the track with your friends for fun and the camaraderie. Look at the pictures in this article – older athletes are jumping for joy worldwide thinking about competing! MastersRankings.com tries to accommodate everyone. Performances from any organized meet run in accordance with WMA or National Affiliate rules are welcome to be listed (and we hope to gather all of them).

There are 3,274,347 performances listed representing 357,293 athletes from 216 nations!

Year
Performances
Athletes
Nations
Completion
2013
190,452
45,247
160
52%
2014
203,042
48,651
154
55%
2015
298,321
72,642
172
76%
2016
321,569
74,095
182
83%
2017
310,296
87,884
178
71%
2018
340,163
80,011
188
81%
2019
401,392
95,394
197
87%
2020
134,051
33,563
131
38%
2021
225,583
53,604
169
56%
2022
352,151
76,230
199
79%
2023
47,232
14,433
114
17%

* completion percentages are estimated

The rankings and all the other lists will be much more complete if athletes, meet organizers and national representatives help (click here).

In case you didn’t know, most of what can be a link is! We’ve tried to make this site easy to navigate and have incorporated countless, intuitive links. Athletes’ names are links to their profile. Meet information links to results and more. Age groups and event names are links to the respective list (in rankings most of the time).

More than Rankings!

Click here to read about MastersRankings’ mission to provide Masters Athletes with a single source for finding out how they are doing, where they can compete and what is happening.

After reading about MastersRankings’ mission, you may realize there is much more we can do. A couple of meet directors had an epiphany and asked if meet records could be posted. Well, yeah (USATF SE Indoor Masters & Sierra Gold Masters Festival)! Anything Masters Athletes and anyone who serves our sport will be considered (request feature).

Members Get More

Thank you members – this site would not exist without your continued support.

 

Photo by Karloz Kon Zeta

Let’s Get Together

The WMA Championship in Malaga is an excellent place to progress this site’s benefits and impact to our sport. Meeting with athletes to get your feedback, discuss improvements and show how to get more from the site is very important.MastersRankings will be in Malaga to meet with athletes, National Statisticians and WMA, WMA Regional and WMA Affiliate representatives. The goals are to help you with anything on the site plus get your improvement feedback, establish ways National Statisticians’ lists can be easily inserted into the rankings and identify ways MastersRankings can further support WMA & Affiliates.

MastersRankings will also be at the US Masters Outdoor Championships in Spokane, WA and the US Masters Throws Championships in Seattle, WA.

Please reach out and let’s figure out the best time and place to meet.

2 Replies to “It’s been a while

  1. I work at EWU (IT) and am excited to reconnect/meet athletes from everywhere. Please reach out if you would like, for whatever reason. I will be competing with some of you in the 5k & 1500. Thanks! 🙂
    http:/facebook.com/carlcheney9
    http://www.ewu.edu

  2. Congratulations on your Fantastic site..!!! Masters Athletes are a totally amazing sector of the Human Performance spectrum and to find such an enormously detailed and positive Site is a blessing and sooo informative..From the beginning of the youngest Masters Age Group to the Oldest..This is definately the most enjoyable and informative Masters Athletics site I have had the pleasure of being able to comment on..

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