Congratulations to Victoria Tachinski, Mathieu Indome and Alexander Mar on their medals at the North American Hershey Championships, held yesterday in Hershey, PA. Victoria won the Girls 13-14 200m with a time of 25.73. Mathieu was 2nd in the Boys 11-12 Standing Long Jump with a jump of 2.35m. Alexander... read more →
Aug
04
Jul
30
Congratulations to Team Manitoba on their performance in Calgary at the Canada West Tri-Province Challenge. The Men’s Midget, Youth and Canada Summer Games Teams each finished 2nd behind Alberta, while the three Women’s teams finished 3rd. Team Manitoba picked up 16 Gold medals, 26 Silver medals, and 33 Bronze medals.... read more →
Jul
14
Updated results from the Canadian Junior Championships in Ste-Therese, Quebec. You can follow live results at http://liveresults.athletics.ca/Live_Results/2013/Junior_Championships/ Day 3 - Final Day Eric Guy (Winnipeg Optimist) earned his second bronze medal of the meet and Manitoba's 5th medal in the 400m hurdles. Eric's time was 53.67, not far off the... read more →
Jul
08
Five Manitoba provincial Age Class records were broken at the Manitoba Age Class Championship. Congratulations goes to: Jennie Baragar-Petrash - Winnipeg Optimist Athletics, who broke the Midget Women's 1200m record with a time of 3:43.44. The previous record of 3:45.11 was held by Tarina Ready. James Kenny - Winnipeg Optimist... read more →
Jun
21
Congratulations to Alhaji Mansaray of Winnipeg Optimist Athletics who set new Manitoba Senior and Junior Records in the High Jump in the Saskatchewan Championships last weekend. Alhaji won the high jump with a performance of 2.16m (7 feet 1inch). This eclipses the previous Manitoba Senior outdoor record of 2.15m set by Frank McLean ... read more →
Jun
14
The Flying M Athletics Club is excited to announce it's new website. Check it out at http://www.flyingm.ca/
May
21
Congratulations to Nicole Sifuentes of Winnipeg, who clocked a 4:04.65 in the 1500-metres, a World Championship A standard, as she placed 3rd at the USATF High Performance Distance Classic on May 17 in Los Angeles, CA.
May
13
The MTFOA 2013 Spring Newsletter is now posted on the website. It can be accessed by clicking here and will be permanently available under Resources/Officials/MTFOA Newsletters .
May
09
Winnipeg, MB – Dave Lyon, track and field icon, passed away on May 9, 2013. A native of Winnipeg, Dave was an outstanding athlete at Oklahoma Baptist University where he was the two-mile champion and placed fourth at the United States National Championships in 1961. Following a career ending injury,... read more →
May
03
Winnipeg Optimist Athletics announces it's new club website. http://www.winnipegoptimistathletics.ca/ Please use the above "url" instead of a simple Google search. If you are taken to the old website please clear your browser history.