As I wrote in the initial post of this series, the procedure is to sort
Mirko Jalava's 2008 World Deep Lists tilastopaja.org for each event
by age of birth, starting with 1973 and backward from there, to
identify all athletes on the list of masters age levels (35 and older
on the date of competition). In summarizing the lists, I've bold-faced
the data for the oldest on the list, and also have noted the youngest
athlete on the world list in each event.
Masters on Men’s 400m World List for 2008
N=2392
List threshold=49.00
402 46.92A Anderson dos Santos BRA 23 Apr 72 Cochabamba 31 May
723 47.45 Dedrick Evans USA 4 Feb 73Atlanta GA 17 May
734 47.46 Aleksey Aksyonov RUS 5 Jun 72Chelyabinsk 28 Jun
1241 48.07 Jata Shankar IND 20 Jun 72Bhopal 29 Feb
1581 48.38 Flávio Godoy BRA 13 Dec 69Rio de Janeiro7 Jun
1700 48.48 Marc FoucanFRA 14 Oct 71Montpellier 18 May
2062 48.76 Johnny Thomas USA 3 Aug 63Austin TX 9 May
1861 48.62A Kevin Hawkins USA 18 Mar 65Laramie WY3 May
1903 48.65 Jimmy Jean-Joseph FRA 15 Oct 72Aix-les-Bains 4 May
2282 48.93 Sean Adams USA 24 May 71Walnut CA 8 Mar
2326 48.96 Ruslan Mashchenko RUS 11 Nov 71Sochi27 May
Youngest athlete (15) on this list:
1388 48.21 Curtis Woods IRL93Mannheim 22 Jun
The 400m list showed 17 athletes with 1992 birthdates (age 16 at some
time in 2008)
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Masters on Women’s 400m World List for 2008
N=1069
List threshold=55.75
215 53.11 Donna Fraser GBR 7 Nov 72Birmingham 12 Jul
695 55.00 Natalya Tsyganova RUS 7 Feb 71Moskva4 Jun
771 55.18 Jearl Miles-Clark USA 4 Sep 66Gainesville FL4 Apr
814 55.25 Patrizia Spuri ITA 18 Feb 73Tivoli 13 Jul
892 55.43 Lena Aruhn SWE 22 Apr 70Celle Ligure 24 Jun
921 55.50 Anja RückerGER 20 Dec 72Nürnberg 5 Jul
Youngest athlete (13) on this list:
965 55.57 Tiffany Terry USA95Omaha NE 27 Jul
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And now, the mystery. When I first did the sorting on the women's 400m
list, I accidentally did it on Mirko's 2004 list, not his current one.
No mystery in my having the wrong one: I'd just finished filtering and
corking sixty bottles of two kinds of wine, and of course they have to
be tasted from time to time to make sure everything's going well. No,
the mystery lies in how very different is the master's-age
representation in the two lists. Here's the data for the 2004 list:
Masters on Women’s 400m World List for 2004
N=685
List threshold=54.99
39 51.08 Donna Fraser GBR 7 Nov 72Berlin 12 Sep
52 51.46 Jearl Miles-Clark USA 4 Sep 66Carson CA22 May
60 51.61 Sandie RichardsJAM 6 Nov 68Kingston 27 Jun
73 51.78 Svetlana Bodritskaya KAZ 7 Nov 71 Almaty5 Jun
113 52.29 Olha MishchenkoUKR 24 Nov 71Yalta 4 Jul
118 52.32 Yuliya Sotnikova RUS 18 Nov 70Tula 29 Jul
119 52.33 Debbie Parris-Thymes JAM 24 Mar 73 Baton Rouge LA 17 Apr
125 52.44 Adri Schoeman RSA 13 Jul 70Durban 17 Apr
131 52.51A Andri Sialou CYP 27 Jan 73Pretoria 31 Jan
147 52.71 Julia Alba ESP 30 May 72Huelva6 Aug
172 52.92 Irina AnashkinaRUS 31 Jan 72Moskva 18 May
189 53.02 Lena Aruhn SWE 22 Apr 70Karlstad 7 Aug
193 53.05A Maria Magnólia Figueirêdo BRA 11 Nov 63 Bogotá 10 Jul
197 53.08 Patrizia Spuri ITA 18 Feb 73Roma 26 Jun
201 53.12 Luciana Mendes BRA 26 Jul 71São Paulo 3 Jun
255 53.51 Anke FellerGER 26 Sep 71Ratingen 26 Jun
282 53.62 Marie-Louise Bévis FRA 12 Oct 72Saint-Denis 23 Jul
307 53.73A Liliana Allen MEX 24 May 70Monterrey 3 Jul
326 53.81 Letitia VriesdeSUR 5 Oct 64Utrecht 10 Jul
401 54.08 Anita Mormand FRA 20 Feb 71 Sotteville-lès-Rouen 18 Jul
425 54.18 Mirtha Brock COL 9 Apr 70Lynchburg VA 8 May
433 54.22 Natalya Tsyganova RUS 7 Feb 71Tula 23 Jun
436 54.22 Natalya SharovaRUS 4 Oct 72Tula 29 Jul
449 54.29 NR Tanya Blake MLT 16 Jan 71Eagle Rock CA 8 May
463 54.36 Danielle Perpoli ITA 7 Mar 68Rieti12 Jun
466 54.37 Elisabeth Grousselle FRA 6 Feb 73 Mont-de-Marsan6 Jun
547 54.62 Linetta Wilson USA 11 Oct 67Fullerton CA 13 Mar
580 54.71 Tatyana MovchanUKR 19 Sep 70Mykolaiv 9 Jun
Youngest athlete (13) on this list:
965 55.57 Tiffany Terry USA95Omaha NE 27 Jul
Notice: 28 masters on the 2004 women's 400m list; 6 masters on the 2008
list. Why? What happened in those four years to so drastically reduce
the number of masters on the women's lists? An obvious
