The Al Sheahen Collection: Al Sheahen’s Documents on Age-Graded Tables

Al Sheahen had shared many of his personal documents on Masters Track and Field.
This included:

The Development of the Age-Graded Tables

Letter from "Dr. Track" Chuck Phillips to Al Sheahen on development of Age-Graded Tables for WAVA

Portion of letter from “Dr. Track” Chuck Phillips to Al Sheahen on development of Age-Graded Tables for WAVA

Between 1975 and the late 1990s, several people in America and abroad sought ways to mathematically compare performances by different athletes of different ages in all running, jumping and throwing events. One pioneer of the so-called Age-Graded Tables was Al Sheahen, editor and publisher of National Masters News. After Al’s death in 2013, his family made his archives available to this site. Now the first major batch of his correspondence on the AGT, plus news clippings and data sets, is posted here.

Correspondence, Newspaper Clips, Etc., Between 1983 and 2000

HAIG Tables:

In Haig Bohigian’s (NY) article: “Developing Cross-Event and Cross-Age Rankings”, Haig spends time
discussing methods of comparing every track and field event to each, and refers to the “HAIG” scoring tables
that he was developing.  In his example table the winner was Al Oerter.   (June 1983 NMN, PDF: pg 14-15 of 40)

U.S. and World Rankings website:
“Rex Harvey”  Age Best Performances

Archive usatfmasters Age Grading information:  (External Link)

Other Information:

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