180 Yard Low Hurdles Return to
Front: Andy
Hecker, Warren Graff, Thad Wilson, Vance Jacobson.
Back: Jeff
Davison, BJ Duhon, Chip Crowl,
Kym Taylor, Bill Knocke,
Steve Cummings and starter Beverley Lewis.
Not shown: Joseph Ols.
180 Yard Low Hurdles Return to
Oct.3, 2009
Club West Meet held at U.C. Santa Barbara.
Club West holds a meet every October for open and Masters
athletes; And as typical,
we were treated to great weather conditions. This year’s meet had many great
highlights
– including two heats of the180 yard low hurdles.
The 180
yard low hurdles are set up 30” tall and spaced every 20 yards apart. Hurdlers
came from Northern
ranged from a Masters world champion to another athlete’s first time competing
in a
hurdle race. Some hurdlers have not
competed in the180s since the 1960’s or 1970’s
and some had never participated in a 180 yard low hurdle race. Thad Wilson and BJ
Duhon both improved upon the existing Masters “best”
mark for the 180s.
Results are listed below:
Heat One (Woman): 1st Kym
Taylor (W46) 33.9;
Heat One (Men): Joseph Ols (M45) 26.7, Warren Graff (M64) 28.2, Vance Jacobson
(M61) 30.0, and Bill Knocke (M69);
Heat Two
(Men): 1st Thad Wilson (M58) 22.7, BJ Duhon
(M51) 22.8, Steve Cummings
(M53) 23.9, Chip Crowl (M54) 27.1, Andy Hecker (M54) 28.5, and Jeff Davison (M51)
Starter: Beverley Lewis.
I would
like to thank Andy and Warren for all of their assistance beforehand.
History of Masters
Athletes competing in the 180 yard low hurdles can be
found at http://www.woodhurdles.com/180YardLowHurdles/1.html
And in the future at http://www.mastershistory.org/180/1.html
Host of the meet: Club West: http://www.clubwesttrack.org/