No YouTube vid yet, but here you go:
https://www.facebook.com/...&mibextid=Nif5oz
Beats Daniel komen,s long standing record of 7:58, previously the only human to go sub 8
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This is nitpicking, but it’s not classified as a world record. It’s a “world best performance”, or WBP.
Also, I can feel this is going to be a fun thread…
This is nitpicking, but it’s not classified as a world record. It’s a “world best performance”, or WBP.
Also, I can feel this is going to be a fun thread…
Can you elaborate? Why it’s not a world record?
Can you elaborate? Why it’s not a world record?
The distance recognized as eligible for a world record by World Athletics. They have two categories:
- World Records: distances and events contested in the Olympic Games + a few that are not (mile, 2000m, 1 hour, to name a few)
- World Best Performances: unconventional distances and events that are not part of the Olympic program, examples being 300m, 600m, 2 miles, 20 000 meters, etc.
You can read more about this in World Athletics book C1. Events are listed in rule 32.
yes an odd distance… still a WR to many. What does is signify his next move for WR effort - 3k or 5k? think he gave up on 1500
It is hard to imagine that anyone can run that far that fast. The training, mental toughness and natural talent is amazing!
It is really unfathomable. Very athletic people cannot run that fast.
If you can run two at 3:57 is one at 4:10 kind of easy? What do the hard days look like? 8 x 400s @ :54?
Can you elaborate? Why it’s not a world record?
The distance recognized as eligible for a world record by World Athletics. They have two categories:
- World Records: distances and events contested in the Olympic Games + a few that are not (mile, 2000m, 1 hour, to name a few)
- World Best Performances: unconventional distances and events that are not part of the Olympic program, examples being 300m, 600m, 2 miles, 20 000 meters, etc.
You can read more about this in World Athletics book C1. Events are listed in rule 32.
Got it. Thank you!!!
A probably even harder WR also broken in the meet. I can just clear a women’s hurdle once!!
World Athletics should just call it a World Record. Here’s the NBC Sports video. Back to back 3:57s… but he went ~4-flat/3:54. With 200 to go I thought he was going to get the record but that it’d be close. That’s when I realized how smooth he was making it look when he flipped it into another gear to demolish the record. His time gives him a shot at the 3k World Record. He’s supposed to take a fast crack at a 1500 in his next race.
The workout he did right before this was 6 x 800, cutting down- 2:00, 2:00, 1:55, 1:55, 1:49, 1:49. Unreal.
yes an odd distance… still a WR to many. What does is signify his next move for WR effort - 3k or 5k? think he gave up on 1500
The 1500m is in next week’s Diamond League Race in Oslo. Hometown crowd?! Several speculators have his 2 mile record at sub 3:26 1500 equivalencies.
Should be a spectacle!
It is really unfathomable. Very athletic people cannot run that fast.
If you can run two at 3:57 is one at 4:10 kind of easy? What do the hard days look like? 8 x 400s @ :54?
Think he said on a pod that he had done 25x400 dropping down from 55 to 53. Just from memory so do not take it at face value
- World Best Performances: unconventional distances and events that are not part of the Olympic program, examples being 300m, 600m, 2 miles, 20 000 meters, etc.
it’s only an “unconventional” distance to power drunk non-athletes wearing blue blazers. it’s a WR. the IAAF can blank me.
Beer 2-Mile sits at 10:18 by Chris Robertson = 2x5:09 Beer Miles
Just for context 😎
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That was a fantastic run. Jacob is fun to watch.
But I need to unload for a minute, otherwise my wife will have to listen to me all day. On her behalf, I thank you for indulging me.
Jacob has shown great versatility (medals at 1500 and 5000 at worlds last year) and he is a great performer at big races (1500 in Tokyo).
Now, I am more of a casual fan than a true aficionado, so please feel free to correct me and or add nuance. But it is my opinion that getting excited by Jacob means getting excited about a lot more than just Jacob. Like that run by Girma at the same meet. Wow, that was cool.
To me, breaking the 2-mile record was meaningful because
–it was an hard mark to beat (well, all records are, by definition)
–the jingle of “back to back sub 4 minute miles” sounds nice
–it was set by Komen who has been sort of the benchmark
–it was the first (but maybe not last) world record set by a guy who thus far has been more of a race winner than record setter
Which compels me to bring up Sifan Hassan and Faith Kipyegon.
Sifan won medals at 1500, 5000, and 10,000 at last year’s world championship. Plus, her marathon debut this spring was wild. Jeepers, what a spread. Now that is a useful woman who performs when it counts.
And this spring, on consecutive weekends, Faith set two new world records: 1500 and 5000. The stuff of legacy. Now that is a fast woman who has just set a new generational standard.
So, no disrespect for Jacob because he is an awesome runner and because he is fun to watch, but Sifan can bring home more medals and Faith can set more records.
Other people I am keeping tabs on include Kelvin Keptum, Femke Bol, Mondo Duplantis, and that heptathlete Thiam. It’s a great time to be a fan.
Rock on, Jacob, I want to see new records in 1500 and 5000 this summer, and I want to see a title defense in Budapest. That would be crazy cool.
- World Best Performances: unconventional distances and events that are not part of the Olympic program, examples being 300m, 600m, 2 miles, 20 000 meters, etc.
it’s only an “unconventional” distance to power drunk non-athletes wearing blue blazers. it’s a WR. the IAAF can blank me.
Yeah what he said!
Slowman FTW, again!
Blue blazers suck
That was a fantastic run. Jacob is fun to watch.
But I need to unload for a minute, otherwise my wife will have to listen to me all day. On her behalf, I thank you for indulging me.
Jacob has shown great versatility (medals at 1500 and 5000 at worlds last year) and he is a great performer at big races (1500 in Tokyo).
Now, I am more of a casual fan than a true aficionado, so please feel free to correct me and or add nuance. But it is my opinion that getting excited by Jacob means getting excited about a lot more than just Jacob. Like that run by Girma at the same meet. Wow, that was cool.
To me, breaking the 2-mile record was meaningful because
–it was an hard mark to beat (well, all records are, by definition)
–the jingle of “back to back sub 4 minute miles” sounds nice
–it was set by Komen who has been sort of the benchmark
–it was the first (but maybe not last) world record set by a guy who thus far has been more of a race winner than record setter
Which compels me to bring up Sifan Hassan and Faith Kipyegon.
Sifan won medals at 1500, 5000, and 10,000 at last year’s world championship. Plus, her marathon debut this spring was wild. Jeepers, what a spread. Now that is a useful woman who performs when it counts.
And this spring, on consecutive weekends, Faith set two new world records: 1500 and 5000. The stuff of legacy. Now that is a fast woman who has just set a new generational standard.
So, no disrespect for Jacob because he is an awesome runner and because he is fun to watch, but Sifan can bring home more medals and Faith can set more records.
Other people I am keeping tabs on include Kelvin Keptum, Femke Bol, Mondo Duplantis, and that heptathlete Thiam. It’s a great time to be a fan.
Rock on, Jacob, I want to see new records in 1500 and 5000 this summer, and I want to see a title defense in Budapest. That would be crazy cool.
All these WR at the same meet does seem suspicious… Short track maybe??
That was a fantastic run. Jacob is fun to watch.
But I need to unload for a minute, otherwise my wife will have to listen to me all day. On her behalf, I thank you for indulging me.
Jacob has shown great versatility (medals at 1500 and 5000 at worlds last year) and he is a great performer at big races (1500 in Tokyo).
Now, I am more of a casual fan than a true aficionado, so please feel free to correct me and or add nuance. But it is my opinion that getting excited by Jacob means getting excited about a lot more than just Jacob. Like that run by Girma at the same meet. Wow, that was cool.
To me, breaking the 2-mile record was meaningful because
–it was an hard mark to beat (well, all records are, by definition)
–the jingle of “back to back sub 4 minute miles” sounds nice
–it was set by Komen who has been sort of the benchmark
–it was the first (but maybe not last) world record set by a guy who thus far has been more of a race winner than record setter
Which compels me to bring up Sifan Hassan and Faith Kipyegon.
Sifan won medals at 1500, 5000, and 10,000 at last year’s world championship. Plus, her marathon debut this spring was wild. Jeepers, what a spread. Now that is a useful woman who performs when it counts.
And this spring, on consecutive weekends, Faith set two new world records: 1500 and 5000. The stuff of legacy. Now that is a fast woman who has just set a new generational standard.
So, no disrespect for Jacob because he is an awesome runner and because he is fun to watch, but Sifan can bring home more medals and Faith can set more records.
Other people I am keeping tabs on include Kelvin Keptum, Femke Bol, Mondo Duplantis, and that heptathlete Thiam. It’s a great time to be a fan.
Rock on, Jacob, I want to see new records in 1500 and 5000 this summer, and I want to see a title defense in Budapest. That would be crazy cool.
All these WR at the same meet does seem suspicious… Short track maybe??
most likely a super surface , maybe made of zoom x material and some carbon layer in it …
No YouTube vid yet, but here you go:
https://www.facebook.com/...&mibextid=Nif5oz
Beats Daniel komen,s long standing record of 7:58, previously the only human to go sub 8
I read somewhere that he ran the ‘last’ 3000 in 7.22, which is awfully close to what is apparently one of the hardest records (male) to beat.