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MASTERS ATHLETICS SUMMER 2014.
Sorry about missing these performances, I suggest you
try mailing me in future. EDITOR.
Dear Brian, Hi Brian,
I have just received my copy of Masters Athletics and while
looking at the results in the WMAIC in Budapest, noticed that I wrote to you last September to ask if you may have known
my result has been missed off. I won the W55 Pole Vault anyone that has won a masters Pentathlon or Decathlon
with a jump of 2.50m. post total hip replacement surgery!
Result: 1 Teresa Eades 2.50; 2 Rita Hanscom USA 2.40; You kindly published that letter I sent and I would just like to
thank you for doing so once again as I had several ex
Kinds regards. athletes and still active athletes. Who have had a hip
TERESA EADES. replacements email me with some really useful tips on post
NB: So you did! Some results were not available on the hip surgery rehab.
earlier days. So sorry I missed yours! Editor.
Sadly none of them were Decathletes and most had to give
Hello Brian, up the real high impact sports but I believe that thanks to you
I have just read the spring issue of the Masters Magazine publishing the letter I have rehabbed perfectly from the
(my husband gets it). There is a point that I would like to advice I have received.
raise.
The Chairman's Report on page 10 details the records set It has only been just over seven months since my operation
since the autumn 2013 report. But there is no mention of the but I am so confident in my rehabilitation that I have got my
two British records set by John Oldfield, my husband. On first comeback British Masters Pentathlon on Sunday 8th
22/11/13 he set an M70 2000m steeplechase record and on June (Won the M45 Group),
29/11/13 an M70 3000m record. Both were accepted by Bob
Minting and appear in the records list. The venue was Perth, I will of course take things very carefully and perhaps only
Western Australia - but surely that doesn't mean he shouldn't have one long jump (as that’s the event that could cause
get a mention. He did it in the stadium which will be the main most concern) but can't wait to get back out there! And it
venue for the WMA championships in Perth in 2016. I'm not may not happen on my first Pentathlon back (as I’m currently
suggesting the omission was your fault - but maybe you nursing a stress fracture of my right big toe!
could pass on our disappointment to whoever is appropriate.
Not that that would ever stop me, but I am determined to be
CHRISTINE OLDFIELD the first person to ever win a Pentathlon or Decathlon after
THR surgery, and hopefully encourage other athletes facing
major surgery that it's doesn't have to be over for their
sporting lives.
I’m not sure if you ever go to any of the British Masters
comps but if you ever do and I’m there competing please
come over and say hello it would be lovely to say high.
Best regards-
Lee Parrott.
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