My procedure is to sort Mirko Jalava's 2008 World Deep Lists
<tilastopaja.org> for each event by year 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 Decathlon World List for 2008
N=325
List threshold=6952
No masters on this list! Oldest (24):
15 8241 Roman Sebrle CZE 26 Nov 74 Beijing 22 Aug
Youngest athlete (19) on this list:
316 6982 Chase Dalton USA 1 Feb 89 Fort Worth TX 15 May
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Masters on Women’s Heptathlon World List for 2008
N=331
List threshold=5000
52 5915 Tatsiana Alisevich BLR 22 Jan 69 Stayki 5 Jun
139 5510 Elizete da Silva BRA 2 May 71 São Paulo 27 Jun
310 5035 Flor Robledo COL 6 Jan 73 Santo Domingo 1 Jun
Youngest athlete (15) on this list:
188 5343 Katarina Thompson GBR 9 Jan 93 Ashford 27 Jul
(A disappointing showing for masters on multi-events. Just too much
demand for too long a time?)
If you're disappointed with short lists, just wait for tomorrow's
(FINAL) one of masters on the world marathon lists. (Oh, and by the
way, the power went off again just as I started pasting the women's
list. Maybe this just wasn't intended to be . . .)
