Whittemore's son, also named John Whittemore and also a Stanford student, lived to the age of 104 and was renowned as a masters track and field athlete.
As a Masters athlete after turning 40 in 2004, he won the European Masters Championships at Aarhus, Denmark, winning both the 200 metres and 400 metres, setting the record at 47.82.
She continued to participate in Masters athletics but eventually retired from the sport because she kept getting injured.
The World Association of Veteran Athletes was founded August 9, 1977, at the second World Masters Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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World masters championships have been held outdoors every two years ever since, and a biennial World Masters Indoor Championships debuted in March 2004 in Sindelfingen, Germany.
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The most recent Indoor Championships were held in Jyväskylä, Finland in April 2012.
Whitney continued to compete into Masters age groups as a pioneer of Masters athletics.
He was a pioneer in the early days of Masters athletics, winning three events at the 2nd ever World Association of Veteran Athletes Championships in 1977 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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-- translated from Wikipedia It, please help-->Ugo Sansonetti (born January 10, 1919), nicknamed Matusalesto (a pun based on the name of Matusalem and the Italian lesto, "quick"), is an Italian writer and masters athlete.