A few years ago the Mount Isa Athletics Club introduced their ‘Retro Day’ in an endeavour to give the club athletes an opportunity to experience and potentially even break the records of events of days gone by or events which Club athletes may have competed in at other venues.
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Retro days have proven popular with about a quarter of the club athletes turning out to have a crack at a myriad of events.
The two retro days, and for some events, the North Queensland Championships are the only opportunity to improve many of the dormant records sitting in the books. Athletes seized the opportunity bettering 11 club records and three ‘All Comers’ records.
Six-year-old Cooper Hanson claimed himself the club 145m Record completing the distance in 28.6s. He then backed up with a 44.0s 200m for an ‘All Comers’ record.
Archer Curtis, seven years, ran well all day but performed best in the 145m taking the record in 27.7s. Another good performer on the track was Sienna Hilton who reduced the 10 years 70m time down to 10.8s.
Race walking is something that is rarely performed in Mount Isa but two of the club’s teenagers in Kadea O’Donnell and Melanie Butler have really taken to the event. Both recorded record times of 4m 35.5s and 4m 48.9s respectively in the 700m distance. In the 12 year Walk Sienna TeWani also went under the existing record time when deadheating with Mel in an exciting race to the line.
There were many headaches for the timekeepers throughout the day with deadheats. One of the 70m races saw first and second tie as well as third and fourth places. Macklin Kretschmann and Jacob Parsons even managed to deadheat in both their 70m and 80m races. In all, five deadheats were recorded on the day.
Jade Scott, Lachy McCoy and James Stewart all equalled existing club records for their age groups in Pole Vault. James bettered his 80m and 100m hurdle times and equalled his 60m.
Other ‘All Comer’ records were broken by Ken Dickson 60m and Patrick Baker 400m Hurdles.
Club officials are expecting to see a slowing in the amount of records taking a tumble as more and more quality athletes come through making it even harder for the future generations.