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p24 weekendermarch12 1994 sx nielsen is a master in field of athletics bruce stapley correspondent seventyyearold dickson hill senior peder nielsen refuses to let his advancing years keep him from experiencing the thrill of victory in the field of athlet ics nielsen returned from the recent ontario masters indoor track and field championships at york university with a gold in the weight throw event and a silver in the shotput the retired ibm department techni cian will add the new medals to the collection he has accumulat ed since taking up competitive track and field back in the early 1980s it was at that time that nielsen who came to canada from his native denmark in 1951 became involved with the toronto latvian club the com bination athleticsocial organi zation used a private blooming- ton sideroadkennedy rd prop erty for track and field events while also maintaining a hall in toronto for social events nielsen was persuaded to join the now defunct club by dickson hill neighbor helmut lange lange has also gone on to achieve at the masters level he finished first in both the shot- put and weight throw events in the 66yearold category at this years ontario championships held march 5 at york upon his retirement in 1989 neilsen took advantage of yorks free offer to seniors to work out at the wellappointed indoor track and field facility he drives to the steeles ave and keele complex for workouts twice a week on average they have great facilities at york nielsen told the tribune tuesday when youre retired you have a little more time and its not too crowded during the day there nielsen said there are added bonuses to working out at such a wellequipped complex you see big name track and field athletes like michael smith and ben johnson it lets you pick up a little technique when you see former olympians training he also trains in his home fit ness room in the good weather he runs at the stouffville track and field complex nielsen still remembers his first exposure to track and field in 1946 as a soldier in the depleted danish army with the country facing bankruptcy and its armed forces stripped of all williams makes good time a stouffville youth ran a disciplined race to finish first in the atom boys category in the 1500metre event at the bramalea bullets indoor track meet sunday at the metro toronto track and field centre at york university luke williams an 11yearold member of the stouffville track and field club held back for the first half of the race then poured it on to win in a personal best time of 5089 min utes williams passed the secondplace runner in the final 100- metre stretch to claim his victory stouffvilles wendy wright finished ninth overall in the 1500 m bantam girls category posting a time of 5597 brenda robbins was fifth in the bantam girls shotput with a distance of 704m stouffvilles john and mark robbins competed in the 60m sprint with john robbins posting a personal best of 118 sec onds other stouffville participants were candace robbins joan tamlin and amy williams in all 404 athletes competed at the meet a golden day for reed at provincial track meet local runner dave reed brought home two gold medals at the recent ontario masters indoor track meet held at the york university indoor facility reed a 39yearold mussel- man lake resident finished first in the 3539yearold class in both the 1500metre and 3000metre races he posted a time of four min utes and 13 seconds to finish first overall in the 1500m race his time of 90288 in was just 125 seconds behind the overall winner in the 3000m event peder nielsen 70 goes through a workout at his dickson hill residence in preparation for another photosjoerd witteveen masters track and field meet in the background are some of the medals that nielsen has won their military equipment in the aftermath of the second world war the enlisted men had noth ing to do but work out we were forced to do some thing with our time we had shotputs discus and a few javelins along with some bicy cles so we used them for train ing along with some high jump- ing today nielsen can be found preparing for annual events such as the ontario masters event and the national masters championships he has compet ed at the pan american mas ters games which are held every four years and is consid ering entering the world mas ters games if they are held in buffalo or rochester ny next year he also competes in meets held in such northern ontario centres as sudbury there are lots of first genera- tion canadians of european heritage up there and theyre still into track and field said nielsen nielsen rounds out his fitness pursuits with golf in the spring and summer and indoor golf and cross country skiing in the winter with the coming of spring he will begin training for a triathlon to be held in scarbor ough in may then prepare for a pentathlon proposed for july at the former site of the latvian club on the bloomington sideroad hell also take part in the ontario outdoor champi onships at york for nielsen taking part in competitive meets serves the dual purpose of keeping him fit while giving him the chance to establish ongoing friendships red wings rake maple leafs bill thornhill broke loose for five goals to lead the gallo real estate sherri hayes real estate red wings to a 61 victory over the rand pools maple leafs as the stouffville amateur hockey leagues 40andover division began its playoff round robin sunday at the rec centre george sled had the other wings goal while garth krisman managed the lone leafs score glenn whitebread and gary husbands each fired a pair of goals as the second place finishing villeneuve heating flyers doubled up the smurthwaite heating bruins in their first post season match up garth bell and laurie montgomery notched the bruins markers the stouffville travel black hawks who fin ished on top in the 40plus loop started off the playoffs with a 42 win over the may real estate whalers bob mckinnon potted a pair for the winners with joe infurnari and sam castorini adding singles randy lee and don barnes countered for the whalers ken mays two goals helped the spring lakes nordiques forge a 33 tie with the occasions catering blues bill anderson also clicked for the nords while it was john visser bill ormson and don mar- mon clicking for the blues john carrick of the a s construction flames took the 30andover divisions top goalkeeper award as the junior circuit closed out its regular season carricks crew which ended up second in the standings edged the stomark rental kings 21 giving the crafty netminder a twogoal bulge over richard bartley of the g r flooring jets wayne thompson looked afterjhe flames scor ing while it was doug marshall picking up the kings goal barneys first place jets were upset 53 by the last place finishing boyds sports sharks kelly burrows lit the lamp twice for the sharks who got single scores from bob hughes pat madigan and joe oconnor bill root jim hamm and naz nicastro replied for the jets the third place village capitals closed out the regular schedule with a 52 win over the hunters nest north stars the caps got goals from ian billich rob bar ber doug taylor and bill housser kevin mcguckin and mark fockler scored for the stars the 30plus division begins its playoff round robin sunday clippers host hockey tournament the stouffville major and minor novice clippers will be host ing a tournament on march break at the rec centre beginning wednesday the minor novices play their first game against unionville at 7 am followed by the major novices who take on newmarket at 9 am and richmond hill at 5 pm championship games will be held on thursday with the minor novice match at 5 pm and major novice at 6 pm