Kamiel: ‘One Of Fastest White Guys Ever’

Het afscheid van Kamiel is ook in het buitenland niet volledig onopgemerkt gebleven. De website Letsrun las over Kamiel’s afscheid in het verslag van de IAAF over Egmond en besteedde er aandacht aan. Het is interessant om te lezen hoe er vanuit het buitenland naar zijn prestaties gekeken wordt. De titel geeft wel aan hoeveel respect er ook ‘abroad’ is voor de prestaties van Kamiel.

‘In updating the site tonight, I came across an item that briefly mentioned that former UT Star Kamiel Maase has run his last race. I certainly thought his retiring deserved more than one line in an IAAF sorty. Maase ran at the Univ or Texas in the 1990s and went on to have a great career. He’s certainly one of the fastest runners in history to ever come out of the NCAA (and one of the fastest white guys in history). His pbs of 13:13.06, 27:26.29, and 2:08:21 all are Dutch records and compare favorably to someone like Alan Culpepper. He won a silver at the 2001 European XC meet and was 8th at the 2003 worlds in the 10k.’