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Edna (with javelin) and Sandy (inset) added to their running legends in Ithaca, New York.

Records January 18, 2025

Indoor mile world records fall to W85 Sandy Folzer and W90 Edna Hyer at Hartshorne

The annual Hartshorne Memorial Masters Mile races Saturday morning produced two world indoor records — 9:45.24 in W85 by Sandra “Sandy” Folzer of Philadelphia and 15:01.31 in W90 by Edna Hyer of Orchard Park, New York. Adam Engst, race director and president of the Finger Lakes Runners Club, reports from Cornell University in upstate New York that three USATF officials were on hand for the paperwork. Results are here. Photos and videos are here. Adam writes: In our first race of the day, W85 Sandra Folzer ran a 9:45.24 to bury Ivy Granstrom’s (Canada) previous record of 13:00.96 from 1999…

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Wearing a neck brace after her most recent accident, Neni Lewis throws the weight at Sunshine State Games.

Records October 7, 2019

Neni Lewis beats injuries, own ultraweight pentathlon record at Sunshine State Games

I once called Masters Hall of Famer Neni Lewis “easily the greatest age-group thrower in history.” She also deserves her own Hall of Fame wing for injury comebacks. I told her story several times. In 2008, I wrote: “Lewis qualified for the Olympic Trials in 1980, 1984 and 1988 in the shot put. Her best chance to make the team was in 1988, when she was throwing close to 60 feet leading up to the trials. But her bid was cut short when a car accident injured her hip and back.” After one episode in 2012, she said: “I am…