Yelverton captures 400-meter title;
snags world record with relay team
MURFREESBORO — MTSU
guitar professor William Yelverton continues to keep his body fine-tuned to
continue his passion for high-level track and field sprinting as he gets older.
Yelverton
won the 400-meter national championship in the M55 age group at the USA Track
and Field Masters National Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
last month, according to a USA Track and Field Masters news release.
Yelverton,
who received an “Age Group Athlete of the Year Award” by USA Track and Field in
December, is a professor of classical guitar in the MTSU School of Music and
visiting professor of music at the University of the South in Sewanee,
Tennessee.
“Happy
to be still getting faster as I get older. Life is good,” Yelverton said.
Remarkably,
his 55.22 seconds was the fastest indoor 400-meter time in the world in eight
years in his age group, states the USATF Masters release. Yelverton anchored
the 4x200-meter relay team of Jim Chinn, Ben James, and Don McGee to set the
M55 world record in the 4x200m relay, eclipsing the record set by Great Britain
in 2014.
Yelverton
also ran an indoor personal record time of 24.65 seconds in the 200-meter event
where he won the bronze medal, missing second place by just 1/100th of a
second. His 200-meter time is ranked third fastest in the world this year in
M55.
Held
March 4-6 this year, this was Yelverton’s third USATF Masters National
Championship in the 400 meters, according to USATF Masters. His time of 55.22 seconds
is faster than his previous two championship races.
Last
August, he won bronze medals in both the 400-meter and 200-meter events at the
World Championships in Lyon, France. His indoor times in Albuquerque were
faster than his outdoor times in France at the World Championships.
USA
Track and Field is the national governing body for track and field,
long-distance running and race walking in the United States. Learn more at http://www.usatf.org.
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