Track and Field

Masters KY USATF Indoor Classic

Tim King, USATF-KY President, has announced a new Masters Meet!  The KY USATF Indoor Classic will be held Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Louisville, KY at the Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center, 3029 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40212.  Athletes may register at https://www.simplyregister.net/register/?e=119230.

Wisconsin USATF Association Track & Field 

Open and Masters Championships 

The Wisconsin USATF Association has announced a USATF Sanctioned Event, the Wisconsin USATF Association Track & Field Open and Masters (Outdoor) Championships on June 20-21, 2021 in Waukesha, WI.

USATF Masters Virtual Fall Challenge

The USATF Masters Virtual Fall Challenge was held Oct 19-November 16.  This meet includes most track and field events.  Details may be found at the following link:

https://www.usatf.org/news/2020/usatf-launches-2020-masters-virtual-fall-challenge

2020 Worldwide Virtual Masters Challenge

In Place of the WMA Toronto 2020, WMA offered the 2020 Worldwide Virtual Masters Challenge.  Events were done during the period of July 18-August 2.  Results were posted in masters rankings.com here: https://wvmc.mastersrankings.com/2020wvmcc/results/.  

2020 USATF Masters Virtual Summer Challenge

Results of the 2020 USATF Masters Virtual Summer Challenge (August 3-17) may be found here (click results tab on the page): 

https://www.usatf.org/masterschallenge#Results

2021 National Senior Games delayed until 2022

In normal years, the National Senior Games Association organizes meets in each state (here the West Virginia Senior Sports Classic, or WVSSC, is the state meet in the NSGA series) and holds National Senior Games every other Year.  The last Senior Games was in Albuquerque, NM in mid-June, 2019.  The next National NSGA meet will be held in May 10-23, 2022 in Greater Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  In 2020, most states cancelled their State Games which qualified participants for the NSGA Games. It is not yet known which states may offer qualifying meets in 2021.  Qualification rules have been changed to allow those with no opportunity to qualify to compete.  See the NSGA site for the Covid-19 Rules for this event here.  

Other Meets

There are also other Track and Field organizations who organize meets, including the State Games of America, and the Huntsman Senior Games.  These meets were cancelled for 2020.  This site will post upcoming meet and other information of interest to WV Masters and encourage contributions from those interested in Masters Running, T&F, and Racewalking.  Contributions may be event listings, News about events, pictures and other information or articles which would interest other athletes.

Future Events (will be updated after USATF Annual Meeting Dec 3-7, 2020)

 

The Indoor USATF Meet may be in jeopardy due to Covid.

WMA Outdoor Championships 2021

Tampere, Finland next July – dates aren’t fixed yet

USATF Masters Outdoor Championships 2021 

Sacramento State University

Sacramento, California

Late July/Early August 2021

National NSGA meet November 2021 in Greater Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  

WMA Indoor Championships 2022 

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

WMA Outdoor Championships 2023

Gothenburg, Sweden

WMA Indoor Championships 2022 

Spokane, WA

WMA Outdoor Championships 2025

Daegu, South Korea

USATF Anti-Doping Report 

 

Drug Testing

Athletes who participate in USATF Championships and Team USATF competitions are subject to drug testing performed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in accordance with the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing.

Please review the USADA page to find information regarding drug testing and which medications may require a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) or are banned.

Masters athletes are subject to doping control testing both in and out of competition and may be sanctioned by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for violations. For more information about anti-doping and the processes involved, visit the USADA website. To check on whether any medications or supplements you are taking are banned, visit the globalDRO website. You can find the link to USADA suspensions here.