Funny flubs in Matti Koskimies' Absolute Age Records

[TrackCEO]

I became aware today of this interesting site for absolute age records:

http://www.apulanta.fi/matti/yu/aars_Men.html

http://www.apulanta.fi/matti/yu/aars_Women.html

But these entries are hilariously wrong:

In the 200:
47y 0m 17169 20.27 Wallace Spearmon USA 2009-09-06 1962-09-03

In the mile:
58y 0m 21186 3:58.62 Ralph Boston USA 1997-05-11 1939-05-09 PB (Alltime-771)

In the high jump:
63y 11m 23343 2.31 Michael Mason CAN 2012-05-01 1948-06-02 PB (Alltime-144)

In the heptathlon:
84y 2m 30726 6199 Christel Schulz GER 2005-05-22 1921-04-06 PB (Alltime-196)

The site author is Matti Koskimies of Finland. But which one?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattikoskimies

http://people.fishpool.fi/~msk/

http://www.endomondo.com/profile/2241176

The site says it draws its stats from http://www.alltime-athletics.com/

What's going on here?

K E N

[Olli]

Re: Funny flubs in Matti Koskimies' Absolute Age Records

Try contacting him through his home page:

http://www.apulanta.fi/matti/

Apart from that I found this page I don't know anything about him. All I know is that Apulanta is a popular rock group in Finland, but I don't know what Matti has to do with it.

[James Fields]

Re: Funny flubs in Matti Koskimies' Absolute Age Records

Is apulanta a colleague or competitor with [email protected] for compiling age records?

[br]

Re: Funny flubs in Matti Koskimies' Absolute Age Records

Well, according to alltime-athletics.com, Wallace Spearmon, Sr. ran 20.27 in Rhede in 1987 and Wallace Spearmon, Jr. has run 20.27 four times ('06, '08, '09, '12).

[El Toro]

Re: Funny flubs in Matti Koskimies' Absolute Age Records

But these entries are hilariously wrong:
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What's going on here?
K E N

Matti's site has no smarts for errors like this, it just pulls data from alltime-athletics. If there is an error in the alltime-athletics database this will be reflected on Matti's site. Peter Larsson will need to fix his database and Matti's site should update overnight or however frequently it updates. I have sent Peter a link to this thread.

In the 200:
47y 0m 17169 20.27 Wallace Spearmon USA 2009-09-06 1962-09-03

Wallace Spearmon Jr won the race in that time on that date but the database entry has Wallace Sr DOB of 1962:
1238 20.27 -0.9 Wallace Spearmon USA 03.09.62 1 Rieti 06.09.2009
Correct DOB for Spearmon Jr is 24.12.84

In the mile:
58y 0m 21186 3:58.62 Ralph Boston USA 1997-05-11 1939-05-09 PB (Alltime-771)

Actual result for that time and date is:
3:58.62 Richie Boulet USA 14.06.73 6 Portland (adidas Oregon) 11.05.1997

In the high jump:
63y 11m 23343 2.31 Michael Mason CAN 2012-05-01 1948-06-02 PB (Alltime-144)

There is an error in the DOB in this entry:
949 2.31 Michael Mason CAN 02.06.48 1 Baie Mahault 01.05.2012

This is the DOB for the Michael Mason from Canada who had a LJ best of 7.96 on 17.08.1971. The HJ Mason's correct DOB is 30.09.86, which is used in other database records for Mason.

In the heptathlon:
84y 2m 30726 6199 Christel Schulz GER 2005-05-22 1921-04-06 PB (Alltime-196)

This appears to be the DOB of the Christel Schulz of Germany who jumped a world record LJ in Berlin on 30.07.39. The DOB for the heptathlete is 30.01.84 according to ATFS 2006