2016 World Masters Athletics Championships was the 22nd in a series of World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships that took place in Perth, Australia from 26 October to 6 November 2016. Prior to this year, the championships in this biennial series were in odd-numbered years. Beginning in 2016, the championships were held in even-numbered years. The change was made to avoid conflict with the quadrennial World Masters Games, which had been held in odd-numbered years since 2005.
The main venue was Western Australian Athletics Stadium, which had a nine-lane mondotrack laid in 2014. Supplemental venues included Ern Clark Athletic Centre, which also had a recently upgraded eight-lane mondotrack. Road walks and cross country were held at Alderbury and Perry Lakes Reserves in Floreat. Half marathon and marathon followed the banks of the Swan River, with start and finish at the WA Water Sports Club. HBF Stadium served as the technical information centre. Welcoming ceremony was held at Elizabeth Quay.
This championship was organized by World Masters Athletics (WMA) in coordination with a local organising committee.
The WMA is the global governing body of the sport of athletics for athletes 35 years of age or older, setting rules for masters athletics competition. At the general assembly during this championship, a motion was passed to change two events after this edition of the series: The marathon would be replaced by a half marathon. The 10K road race would be replaced by the 10K race walk.
In addition to a full range of track and field events, non-stadia events included 8K cross country, 10K race walk, 20K race walk, half marathon, and marathon.
Results Official results are archived at Past championships results are archived at WMA. Additional archives are available from British Masters Athletic Federation
in HTML format, from Český atletický as a searchable pdf, from as a searchable pdf, and from Masters Athletics Western Australia as a pdf book.
Masters world records set at this championships are listed below and are from the list of world records in the pdf book unless otherwise noted. More complete lists of medalists are contained in separate articles for women and for men.
Women
World records are listed below. EventAthlete(s)NationalityPerformanceW70 400 metresAletta UngererW65 800 metresSabra HarveyW65 5000 metresKathryn MartinW70 80 metres hurdlesMarianne MaierW80 80 metres hurdlesIrene OberaW65 2K steeplechaseKathryn MartinW75 2K steeplechaseXuhua ChenW80 2K steeplechaseAnne MartinW85 2K steeplechaseClasina Van der VeekenW85 5K race walkChristiane DauphinetW90 5K race walkElena PaguW90 10K race walkElena PaguW70 20K race walkElsa MeyerW75 20K race walkVey HildegardW65 4 × 400 metres relayPaula Moorhouse, Carol Davis, Kathryn Heagney, Lyn PeakeW65 4 × 400 metres relayRosalind Tabor, Janette Stevenson, Hendricka White, Caroline MarlerW80 4 × 400 metres relayMary Harada, Christel Donley, Irene Obera, Jean DapranoW75 high jumpKathy BergenW80 heptathlonIrene OberaW45 half marathonCarla MachadoW45 half marathonHong LiHong Li placed 2nd to Carla Machado in the W45 Half MarathonW50 half marathonSally GibbsW50 half marathonZohra GrazianiW50 half marathonSoledad Castro SoliñoW55 half marathonRobyn BasmanW55 half marathonJanet FergusonW60 half marathonJohanna ClarksonW60 half marathonHelen StanleyW60 half marathonJoy RadfordW65 half marathonKristiina HuttunenW70 half marathonLavinia PetrieW80 half marathonSally Gibbs
Men
World records are listed below. EventAthlete(s)NationalityPerformanceM85 4 × 400 metres relayJinbiao Wang, Guiben Sun, Zhiyong Wang, Pengxue SuM75 2K steeplechaseJean-Louis EsnaultM50 half marathonPaul ThompsonM50 half marathonBruce GrahamM50 half marathonJohn MeagherM55 half marathonDavid SweeneyM55 half marathonJohn MeagherM70 half marathonJean Claude DemarqueM70 half marathonAlbert AndereggM70 half marathonMartin FordM70 half marathonDonald MathewsonM80 half marathonRoger BardinM55 throws pentathlonBurton Haupt
References
External links