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Who makes your list of top five American distance runners of all-time? Here's mine: 1. Frank Shorter 2. Joan Benoit 3. Mebrahtom Keflezighi 4. Deena Kastor 5. Billy Mills |
| Rush O Hannity |
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Meb? I thought you asked about AMERICAN middle and long distance runners. |
| dickie thon |
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if you go billy mills, why not bob schul. wasnt schul more consistent and at that level for a longer time? i am not sure? |
| GentleJogger |
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1. Frank Shorter 2. Joan Benoit 3. Meb Keflezighi 4. Bernard Lagat 5. Lynn Jennings Billy Mills one surprise Olympic Gold medal had little to back it up to make the list of an all-time list in my opinion. |
| VIPAM |
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Bob Schul was incredible and someone I thought about and considered replacing Billy Mills with him as it was a toss up between the two for my list. Dickie who made your list? |
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alberto salazar meb keflezighi joan benoit frank shorter bill rogers |
| MeltlingPot |
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1. Frank Shorter 2. Bob Schul 3. Bernard Lagat 4. Joan Benoit 5. Meb Keflezi honorable mentions: Pat Porter, Lynn Jennings, Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazer, Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine, Craig Virgin, Johnny Gray |
| simple karma |
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1 shorter 2 joan benoit 3 jim ryun 4 bill rodgers 5 meb |
| mighty porn stache |
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I don't see many "Middle" distance runners on any of these lists except the last one - Jim Ryun. I guess we're forgetting his WRs and medals? How about Liquori? How about Johnny Gray? How about Mary Slaney (pre drugs)? |
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Depends if you count the 800 as middle distance. If you do: 1. Shorter 2. Mat Whitfield 3. Ryun 4. Wottle 5. Tom Courtney |
| JamMaster K |
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1. Dave Wottle 2. Billy Mills 3. Jordan Hasay 4. Chris Derrick 5. German Fernandez |
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Really? Everyone here is putting Meb on the list? I don't know enough to make a full list, but that seems unlikely. |
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It's amazing how little respect Rick Wohlhuter gets. Look at the T&FN top lists for all events. Who's still there from the 70's? He is for both the 800m and, oh yeah, the still standing 1000m AR. And he got an Olympic medal with two major studs ahead of him. Wottle got gold but he didn't have to run against those guys. Next to Ryun, I'd rank RW the best American middle distance runner, and in the top five for middle and long. |
| uckfay ooyay |
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Ryun goes ahead of Meb on ANY list, dipshit. |
| Runner42 |
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Meb: NYC Champion Olympic silver medalist 6-time 15k USA Champion (Gate River Run) Credentials that stand up to anyone! |
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------- Not trying to be funny at all; however, if you don't know enough to make a full list then you don't know enough to say if Mebrahtom shouldn't be on OUR list! Olympic Silver Medalist TWENTY National Titles: x-country, 8000m to Marathon American Recordholder in 10000m has been world ranked in both 10000m and marathon 2 time Olympic Trial 10000m Champion NYC Marathon Winner |
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Steve Scott Jim Ryun Bob Schul David Wottle Bill Rodgers |
| Wendell Gee |
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Do people really value road races (other than the marathon) that highly? |
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# 1. Frank Shorter 1972 Olympic Marathon GOLD and 5th in the Olympic 10000m 1976 Olympic Marathon Silver 2. Bob Schul the only American to every medal at Olympic 5000m and he won GOLD 3. Joan Benoit ran away from heavy Olympic favorite Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristansen in LA and posted an incredible time in her solo run to Olympic Gold. Winner of numerous marathons after and still 2nd fastest American 20 plus years later. 4. Billy Mills huge underdog and ran an unbelieveable personal best to win Olympic 10000m GOLD 5. Dave Wottle winner of the only 800m Olympic GOLD medal with even spilts, dead last at 500m but walked everyone down for the GOLD. 2-time NCAA 1500m champion USA Olympian at 1500m. You have to have won Olympic Gold to make my list. Most athletes would trade all their other accomplishments to have an individual Olympic Gold! *runners who have a chance to make my list with more international championship podium placings to their previous Olympic/World medals: Deena Kastor Shalane Flanagan Kara Goucher Mebrahtom Keflezighi Bernard Lagat |
| KnowItAll |
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1 medal and no world records, not quite.
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