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1999
- Robert "Mac" MacTarnahan - Masters Athlete
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1999
Oregon’s most accomplished Masters Athlete, Robert “Mac” MacTarnahan is the first masters competitor ever chosen for induction into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. His athletic feats are amazing. Mac is a four-time Masters world record holder with a national record in the mile plus three world record holders in the 3000-meter steeplechase. In the steeplechase, he is a six-time AAU National Masters champion, two-time USA National Senior Olympic champion, two-time World Senior champion. Mac is also a five-time National Masters wrestling champion. The wiry Scot owns more the 50 Masters Gold Medals.
2000
- Lavelle Stoinoff - Masters Athlete
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2000
Lavelle Stoinoff has been called the “Janet Evans of masters Swimming.” Stoinoff, who started swimming at the age of 12 at Portland’s Columbia Park Pool, holds over nine world records in the women’s 60-64 age group. She graduated from Beaverton High School after setting many Oregon high school swimming records.
Unfortunately for Stoinoff, athletic opportunities for women athletes in the 1950’s were slim. College scholarships were awarded to male athletes and the Olympics had no long distance swimming events, Stoinoff’s specialty. So she retired from swimming in 1953 at the ripe old age of 20. After marriage and raising a family, Stoinoff returned to the pool in 1977 when she joined a small masters club to “lose weight and have fun.” It took only a year for her to regain her competitive fitness and become a national age group champion. And that was only the beginning of an outstanding masters swimming career for Stoinoff. With a training regimen consisting of six days in the pool, weight training, running, and stretching she has become one of the best female long distance masters swimmers in the world.
Stoinoff currently holds most of the national and world records for women over 50 years old at distances greater than 400 yards. She owns world marks in the 400, 800 and 1500 meter freestyle and the 200-meter backstroke. She also holds national records in the 200, 500 and 1650 yard freestyle. Stoinoff’s exploits have been recognized in her home state as well as receiving the Oregon Women in Sports Award and was recognized as Oregon’s Outstanding Female Master Athlete of 1987. She also has been named Oregon’s Outstanding Masters Swimmer of the Year nine times overall and six times in the 1990’s. Even more remarkable is that many of her records were set after recovering from tow torn rotator cuffs in 1990, injuries that doctors thought might end her swimming career.
2007
- Robert "Pudgy" Hunt - Masters Athlete
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2007
Robert “Pudgy” Hunt, a 1957 Knappa High School graduate held the Oregon high school all-time career scoring record with 2,584 points until this year, when it was broken by Kevin Love of Lake Oswego High School. “Pudgy” also still shares the class 2A Boys high school tournament record for an individual game with 45 points. He was an All-Tournament selection in 1955, 1956 and 1957. In 1955 Knappa won the boys basketball Championship.
Hunt went on to Gonzaga University where he was team captain and the leading scorer for the 1961-62 season averaging 20 points per game. Following college, “Pudgy” was a member of several AAU State Championship teams including Claudia’s and the MAC Club. He also began participating in the AAU Masters program with the his own East Bank Saloon team which has 15 AAU National Championships making the All-Tourney team 5 times and also a tournament MVP selection in 1988.He was also involved in National Masters Basketball, the World Masters Games and the World Senior Games. Hunt is known as one of the star players on one of the best teams in national and international masters (age-group) basketball competition. Internationally, the East Bank Saloon team has one nine gold medals in Toronto, Brisbane, Melbourne, Edmonton, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, Costa Rica, Solvania and Brazil. Silver medals were one in Portland and Uraguay.
2011
- Clive Davies - Masters Athlete
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2011
Clive Davies started late into the world of competitive athletics, but became one of the world’s top distance runners when he did.
Born in Wales in 1915, Davies moved to Oregon in 1946 and made a career as a graphic designer. He didn’t take up running until the summer of 1972 at age 57. He finished third in his first race, a Masters event that covered 6.5 miles. During the next 13 years, Davies established 46 U.S. and world age-group records for distances ranging from 1 mile to 60 kilometers.
Davies’ top performance would come in the 1982 Boston Marathon, which he finished in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 56 seconds at age 66. The time caught the attention of Sports Illustrated magazine, which wrote a feature on him the following year when he held the world record in the marathon for ages 59-66.
Davies, who regularly trained by running 20 miles, established an American record in 1981 in the 60 kilometer ultramarathon at 4:30:26, which was more than an hour faster than anyone older than 60 had run.
Davies was inducted to the Roadrunners of America Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
Clive Davies started late into the world of competitive athletics, but became one of the world’s top distance runners when he did.
Born in Wales in 1915, Davies moved to Oregon in 1946 and made a career as a graphic designer. He didn’t take up running until the summer of 1972 at age 57. He finished third in his first race, a Masters event that covered 6.5 miles. During the next 13 years, Davies established 46 U.S. and world age-group records for distances ranging from 1 mile to 60 kilometers.
Davies’ top performance would come in the 1982 Boston Marathon, which he finished in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 56 seconds at age 66. The time caught the attention of Sports Illustrated magazine, which wrote a feature on him the following year when he held the world record in the marathon for ages 59-66.
Davies, who regularly trained by running 20 miles, established an American record in 1981 in the 60 kilometer ultramarathon at 4:30:26, which was more than an hour faster than anyone older than 60 had run.
Davies was inducted to the Roadrunners of America Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.