18°23′13″N 65°57′24″W / 18.38698°N 65.95673°W / 18.38698; -65.95673 (Pista Atletica Basilio Rodriguez)

2003 World Masters Athletics Championships is the fifteenth in a series of World Masters Athletics Outdoor Championships that took place in Carolina, Puerto Rico, from 1 to 13 July 2003. The low participation number may be partly due to the fear of flying after the 2001 September 11 attacks and the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak. This is the second time that the Championships is hosted in Puerto Rico; the fifth edition of 1983 was held in San Juan. This is the first edition of the Championships conducted after the governing body of this series was formally renamed from World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA) to World Masters Athletics (WMA) at the previous (2001) edition held in Brisbane, Australia,

The main venue was Pista Atletica Basilio Rodriguez located within the Complejo Deportivo Municipal Roberto Clemente. Other stadia included Estadio Roberto Clemente, Estadio Sixto Escobar that had hosted the 1983 Championships in San Juan, and University of Puerto Rico Sports Complex in Río Piedras. Non-stadia venues included Central Park and Parque Julia de Burgos. The competitions were briefly interrupted by showers from Tropical Storm Claudette.

This edition of masters athletics Championships had a minimum age limit of 35 years for women and 40 years for men. During General Assembly on 10 July the starting age for men was reduced from 40 to 35 for subsequent editions. Also, the inaugural 2004 Indoor Championships was approved to be held in Sindelfingen, Germany.

This Championships was organized by WMA in coordination with a Local Organising Committee (LOC) led by William Aleman.

In addition to a full range of track and field events, non-stadia events included 8K Cross Country, 10K Race Walk (women), 20K Race Walk (men), and Marathon.

A new feature for this series was the use of internet technologies: in addition to the official website, 2 additional websites provided quick updates of competition results: flashresults and cyberscoreboard.

Official daily results are archived at puertorico2003. Past Championships results are archived at WMA. Additional archives are available from Masters Athletics, from British Masters Athletic Federation in html and from Museum of Masters Track & Field in html, and as National Masters News pdf newsletters.

Several masters world records were set at this Championships. World records for 2003 are from the list of World Records in the National Masters News August newsletter unless otherwise noted.

Key:   Wind aided

Event	Athlete(s)	Nationality	Performance
W90 100 Meters	Rosario Iglesias Rocha	MEX	38.02
W55 200 Meters	Ingrid Meier	GER	27.70
W90 200 Meters	Rosario Iglesias Rocha	MEX	1:22.29
W45 400 Meters	Marie Lande Mathieu	PUR	56.15
W50 800 Meters	Maureen De St Croix	CAN	2:20.18
W65 80 Meters Hurdles	Ingeborg Schott	GER	15.01
W70 80 Meters Hurdles	Hideko Koshikawa	JPN	18.25
W70 80 Meters Hurdles	Gerd Mjelde	NOR	18.39
W75 80 Meters Hurdles	Isabel Hofmeyr	RSA	20.04
W75 80 Meters Hurdles	Johnnye Valien	USA	23.87
W50 4 x 400 Meters Relay	Marne McMillan, Karla Del Grande, Rhona Trott, Maureen de St. Croix	CAN	4:24.09
W55 High Jump	Phil Raschker	USA	1.47
W60 High Jump	Erika Springmann	GER	1.39
	Edith Graff	BEL
W70 High Jump	Rosemary Chrimes	GBR	1.26
W75 High Jump	Leonore McDaniels	USA	1.11
W75 Triple Jump	Leonore McDaniels	USA	6.37
W70 Shot Put	Rosemary Chrimes	GBR	10.68
W70 Discus Throw	Rosemary Chrimes	GBR	31.29
W40 Hammer Throw	Oneithea Lewis	USA	55.04

Event	Athlete(s)	Nationality	Performance
M100 100 Meters	Waldo McBurney	USA	39.97
M50 200 Meters	Stephen Peters	GBR	22.58
M70 200 Meters	Ralph Romain	TTO	26.96
M90 200 Meters	Friedrich Mahlo	GER	42.14
M55 400 Meters	Charles Allie	USA	52.24
M70 400 Meters	Ralph Romain	TTO	1:01.01
M75 400 Meters	Wilhem Selzer	GER	1:05.51
M90 400 Meters	Friedrich Mahlo	GER	1:42.30
M80 80 Meters Hurdles	Juji Tanaka	JPN	16.05
M40 110 Meters Hurdles	David Ashford	USA	13.73
M70 2000 Meters Steeplechase	Francisco Vicente	POR	8:00.83
M80 2000 Meters Steeplechase	Soichi Tamoi	JPN	10:02.43
M50 4 x 100 Meters Relay	Robert Bowen, Edward Gonera, Bill Collins, Jesse Norman	USA	44.99
M100 Shot Put	Waldo McBurney	USA	4.12
M90 Discus Throw	Mario Riboni	ITA	31.29
M90 Hammer Throw	Mario Riboni	ITA	20.27
M90 Hammer Throw	Pedro Villanueva	COL	19.95
M75 Javelin Throw	Heiner Will	GER	42.50
M90 Javelin Throw	Pedro Villanueva	COL	16.09
M85 Weight Pentathlon	Heige Lonnroth	FIN	4275
M90 Weight Pentathlon	Howard West	CAN	3859
M90 Weight Pentathlon	Anton Polgar	GER	3442
M90 Weight Pentathlon	Gilberto Gonzalez	PUR	3287
M65 Decathlon	Knut Skramstad	NOR	7754

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2003-08-07)
• Results websites
  • https://www.flashresults.com/2003_Meets/outdoor/wma/index.htm
  • http://www.cyberscoreboard.com/report.php/Sport=1