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Race
Walker At
101, Hall
Of Famer
At 106
Manny Hauer shows off a 1,500-meter race walk gold
medal he won in 2009 when he was 98 years old.
STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
M
anny Hauer will turn 107
on May 1.
While that’s a remark-
able achievement in itself, there’s
another line on his lifetime resume
that’s equally as impressive. Hauer
was named to the Michigan Senior
Olympics Hall of Fame last year
when he was 106.
He began competing in the annu-
al Michigan Senior Olympics in his
only event, the 1, 500-meter race
walk, shortly after he retired from
the work world at age 70.
Hauer retired from race walking
at age 101 after collecting a moun-
tain of gold medals.
Michigan Senior Olympics had
to create a new age group category
in the race walk event because of
him. Hauer couldn’t compete in the
95-and-older group any longer, so
he competed solo in the 100-and-
older division.
Hauer competed in the National
Senior Games in Florida in 1999.
He won, of course. And he did
the Labor Day walk across the
Mackinac Bridge with family mem-
bers a couple times when he was in
his 90s.
“Walk daily, eat healthy foods
and limit red meat” is Hauer’s
advice for a long life, said Sylvia
Willner of Farmington Hills, his
daughter.
Competing in the Michigan
Senior Olympics also can be a
fountain of youth.
“The Senior Olympics gave my
dad a focus for his life,” Willner
said. “As soon as he completed one
race, he began training for the next
year’s race. He trained inside and
outside year-round.”
Willner said her father didn’t
compete in sports until after he
retired from working at a commer-
cial laundry in Detroit.
To keep active after his retire-
ment, he began walking around his
hometown of Oak Park.
Workers at the Oak Park
Department of Recreation told him
he should compete in the Michigan
Senior Olympics. The rest, as they
say, is history.
Born in Czechoslovakia in
1911, Hauer came to Detroit in
1939 to join his sister. He left
Czechoslovakia three days before
Hitler’s forces invaded the country.
He was married to his wife,
Helen, for 74 years. She died in
2014. They lived in Oak Park for 36
years.
Hauer moved into the Colville
Assisted Living Apartments in Oak
Park five years ago. He has three
daughters, five grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren.
“My dad was an inspiration to
those who competed against him in
the Senior Olympics, and his per-
severance and resilience has been
a wonderful example and inspira-
tion to his children, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and other fam-
ily and friends,” Willner said.
ZACH ATTACK
Zach Oshinsky’s fabulous save for
the Olivet College baseball team
Feb. 25 earned the southpaw pitch-
er from West Bloomfield a national
NCAA Division III honor.
He was named to the D3baseball.
com Team of the Week. Top per-
formers at each position from the
previous week are selected from
nominations submitted by college
sports information directors and
Oshinsky made the squad at relief
pitcher.
Here’s what happened in Olivet’s
7-6 win over Wisconsin-Platteville
in Louisville, Ky.
Oshinsky entered the game with
Olivet ahead 7-5 in the bottom of
the 10th inning. Platteville had the
bases loaded with nobody out and
the batter at the plate had a 3-0
count.
The batter looked at two pitches
for strikes from Oshinsky, then
swung and missed. One out.
Oshinsky walked the next hitter
on a 3-2 count to force in a run,
but the 5-foot-9, 185-pound senior
fanned the next two batters on
called strikes on 2-2 counts to pre-
serve the Comets’ win.
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