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Name:
FEE, Earl
Sport:
Track and Field
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Engineer, house designer, artist, writer, poet (about 100 poems to his credit), noted Toastmaster (over 50 speeches), coach and accomplished runner. Earl Fee is all these but his greatest love is running. Not many 60 - year - olds can boast they’re both global champions and world record holders. Earl is one of those who can. A member of the Credit Valley Marathon Club who logged an average of 10 miles in his daily training log (less in days leading up to a competition), Fee not only won the 400 and 800 metre events at the 1990 World Masters Championships, but also set records at both distances when he reached the big Six-O. After that, things really got interesting for the Mississauga “golden age” runner who has made a career of winning medals and setting global marks at the time of life when most of his contemporaries chose watching athletic championships on television rather than doing it themselves. During a competitive career spanning nearly two decades, Fee has become somewhat of a Masters Marvel. In the past 18 years he has broken over 40 world records (most are existing in 2006) in the following events: 300 and 400 metre hurdles, 400 metres, 800 metres, 1,500 metres and a mile. During 1987-2002, he was named four times Ontario Masters Track & Field Athlete of the Year, five times Mississauga Masters Athlete of the Year, five times Canadian Masters Championship Athlete of the meet, and over 12 times Canadian cross-country champion in his age group.Basically these accomplishments involved the same dogged determination and dedication that enabled him to win six scholarships and two fellowships at university including an Athlone Fellowship for two years of graduate study in England. Earl retired in 1994 after 35 years as a nuclear engineer supervisor and consultant designing CANDU nuclear power stations for the production of electricity. His diverse engineering expertise was mainly in fluid mechanics and heat transfer analysis. The scientific experience of writing many demanding and exact nuclear reports no doubt contributed largely to his clear, concise and complete writing style. In addition he is well known from writing feature articles on running training in the U.S. National Masters News. Impressive as his career credentials are, they pale in comparison to his achievements on the running track, particularly during a six-year stretch leading to the New Millennium. Fee rang in 1994 in spectacular fashion, setting four world records for his age group in a couple of weeks. The Mississauga athlete bid farewell to the 60-64 age category, breaking his own 1,500 metres global mark at the Ontario Masters indoor championships at York University then made the record a thing of the past in the open-age mile at the Copps Coliseum indoor meet in Hamilton. Fee then celebrated his arrival to an older 65-69 years level by winning all his races at the U.S. Indoors Masters championships at Columbia Missouri, where, for good measure, he eclipsed both the 800- and 1,500-metre world records. |
To nobody’s great surprise, he once again stood among the tallest at the Master World Championships in Buffalo where he set three global records in the 65-69 age group (400-and 800 -metre races and 300-metre hurdles) a year later. Competing in the 65-69 age group, Fee added the 400 - and 800 metres and the 400- metre hurdles titles to the silver medal he won in the 200- metre and 4X400-metre relay events of the North and Central American and Caribbean Masters Championships in Eugene, Oregon in 1996. He celebrated his 69th birthday in style, winning three gold medals at the U.S. Masters Track and Field Championships in Boston in 1997, and for good measure clocked world record times for his age division in 200 and 800 metres and also the 1-mile race. More than 800 seniors competed in this giant event. He added four more laurels when he finished first over 200, 400, 800, and 1,500 metres at the World Masters Games in Eugene, Oregon. The event attracted some 12, 000 golden oldies, 1,300 for track and field. In 1999, Fee not just bettered but really smashed a couple of world records - not a bad way to celebrate a birthday, especially when one turns 70. Fee observed that milestone in high style, not only winning a pair of gold medals as a rookie in the 70-74 age category, but doing it with a rare class at the U.S. Masters indoor Games in Boston when he first shaved five seconds off the 400- metre global mark (1:1.31 minutes), then did an even more devastating job chopping a whopping 22 seconds of the 800-metre record (20:20.45 minutes). In 2000, Fee reached a milestone at the 2003 Masters Athletics Championships in Puerto Rico when he set world records for 70- 74 year olds in winning the 300-metre hurdles, before adding another gold (and global mark) as a member of Canada’s 4X400- metres relay team, boosting Fee’s world- record setting career total to 30. At age 76 in 2005 with a maximum heart rate of about 190 b.p.m., a resting heart rate of 43 b.p.m., body weight 70 kg, and a body fat of about 5 per cent stood as an amazing testimony to his physical fitness level. Fee has also found time to pen a book, “How To Be a Champion from 9 to 90”. It has taken him longer to write than all his running records combined- about 2,700 hours over six years. Earl Fee was inducted into the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame on June 1, 2006. |
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