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| OMA News and Information |
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| Porto Alegre World Championships move to October 2013 WMA has agreed to a date change for the 2013 World Championships in Brazil. The original July date is mid-winter in Porto Alegre, so a change to October 15-27 has been agreed. For more details, see the WMA website click here |
| Entry arrangements for Australian athletes going to Tauranga Australian Masters Athletics has simplified entry arrangements for Australian athletes going to Tauranga. Please read the attached document before completing your entry: click here |
| Ron Robertson and Lyn Ventris
WIN the IAAF Masters Athlete of the Year awards OMA's two nominees for the IAAF Masters athletes of the year awards have been announced as the 2011 winners. To see the OMA Secretary's official news release click here |
| Perth wins 2016 Worlds Perth has won the right to host the WMA Championships in 2016. For full details, including the facilities, bid committee and general information, see the dedicated website click here |
| Sacramento Worlds April Newsletter The WMA championships are now only two months away. The Sacramento LOC has released a newsletter with the latest information. click here to download it |
Secretary's Report for the 2011 AGM |
| The passing of Clem Green QSM – OMA pioneer and patron The OMA family will be saddened to hear that Clem Green died earlier this week. Clem had been in poor health for some time. Stan Perkins, now President of WMA, and a fellow pioneer of OMA pays this tribute to a man who will be sadly missed by all who knew him: "Clem Green was the man who established the Oceania Region within the Masters Athletics world. I well remember first meeting Clem in the early 1980s and being overwhelmed by his enthusiasm for the Oceania dream. He worked virtually unassisted in his early years within Oceania and was driven by the desire to see the vast geographic region come together as one in the then Veterans’ track and field competition. "He was successful in that he managed to have several Regional Championships organised and conducted in localities that no one else would have considered capable of undertaking such a task. He begged, pleaded and indeed cajoled people to help him. He was without doubt the father of Veterans/Masters athletics in the Oceania Region and a person whom we must never fail to acknowledge when we come together to participate in the Regional Championships. His memory will live on forever and we will miss him. "Let me finish with a little story about Clem. In one of the Oceania Regional Veterans Championships held at Norfolk Island, Clem was participating in the steeplechase. This was at the time when WMA had just introduced the Safety Judges to competition and I had been appointed as one of the safety judges. Clem was obviously either not fit or prepared to undertake this event and on each occasion he came to the water jump he managed to crash heavily. About the third time around I went onto the track and told him that unless he could improve his effort he would need to withdraw. What he replied to me is not reportable. I then went and spoke to his wife and asked "what do I do?" She simply said “Let him kill himself, it is the only way you will stop him”. I did try to stop him again as he was not coping well and had in fact injured himself and was bleeding. It was to no avail so I let the man finish his race. Afterwards (well afterwards) I approached Clem and asked was he OK. He told me "Yes I am now, but early in the race some idiot came onto the track and told me to stop and that just made me more determined to finish". Enough said. No wonder he was successful with that type of thinking and that desire to succeed. Yes, we will miss him. God bless you Clem.” |
| Report on OMA Championships in Tahiti |
| Photo slide-show of the OMA Championships in Tahiti. Michael Slagter, from South Australia, has kindly given permission for his photos to be made available as a slideshow. To view these, go to the Championships Results page on this website and click the link provided. |
| Marie Kay & Peter Crombie are IAAF Athletes of the Year |
| 2006 Linz Masters Indoor World
Championships Photos: http://www.rikko2photo.co.uk/, Lesley is also the official EVAA photographer and will have photos from the Outdoor World Championships in Riccione. |
| 2005 San Sebastian World Championships Photos: http://www.rikko2photo.co.uk/, around 10,000 photos available for purchase from UK website. http://www.imagestation.com/member/?name=douglasjsmith, around 3,000 photos. |
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