DMR: Brit Throws a Tantrum After Falling Down, Ethiopia Gets Up and Wins

Great race.

Splits aren't up yet

http://pennrelaysonline.com/Results/results.aspx?en=469

1 Ethiopia 9:16.34 Aisinet Abiyot, Bereket Desta, Mohammed Aman, Aman Wote ETH

2 Kenya 9:17.03 Anthony Chemut, Kennedy KipKosgei Chepsiror, Timothy Kitum, Caleb Ndiku KEN

3 USA Red 9:18.21 Andrew Wheating, Quentin Summers, Duane Solomon, David Torrence USAr

4 USA Blue 9:19.33 Matthew Centrowitz, Kind Butler, Charles Jock, Bernard Lagat USAb

5 Ireland 9:24.10 Paul Robinson, Brian Gregan, Mark English, Ciaran O'Lionaird IRL

6 Australia 9:28.74 Collis Birmingham, Kurt Mulcahy, James Kaan, Ryan Gregson AUS

7 Canada 9:29.15 Kyle Smith, Mike Robertson, Geoff Harris, Matt Lincoln CAN

8 Morocco 9:40.80 Abdelhadi Labali, Marouane El Maadadi, Samir Jamma, Soufiyan Bouqantar MAR

Great Britain DNF Chris Warburton, Martyn Rooney, Joe Thomas, Matt McLaughlin GBR

World record is 9:15.56 so with a fall this was one of the best ever.

Didn't realize Aman was on the 800 leg for Ethiopia. He must have killed it!

Are we sure it wasn't Morocco that got tripped up at the back of the pack when Great Britain went down? Their uniforms resemble those sported by the Ethiopians.

R.U. Positive wrote:

Are we sure it wasn't Morocco that got tripped up at the back of the pack when Great Britain went down? Their uniforms resemble those sported by the Ethiopians.

That seems more plausible, given their time.

yeah, i was thinking the same thing.

Ethiopians win with an average age of -3 and an average hct of 55.

Great job.

I think you guys are right and I was wrong. The announcer said Ethiopia but there is no way they came from that far back. Likely was Morocco.

I got these splits for the final 1600

torrence: 3:57

kenya: 3:54

Eth: 3:53

add another second or two for the 9 meters to get the mile eq.

not sure about lagat - 3:57 I think.

the kenyan who caught torrence at the beginning of the 1600 ran 53 for his first 400 meters - probably 26 for his first 200. Love that fighting spirit.

Official splits are up. Morocco was the team that fell.

Lagat split 3:54.8. It just looked like he wasn't moving because the guys in front of him split 3:52.

1 Ethiopia 9:16.34 Aisinet Abiyot (2:53.5), Bereket Desta (46.0), Mohammed Aman (1:44.0), Aman Wote (3:52.8) ETH

2 Kenya 9:17.03 Anthony Chemut (2:51.6), Kennedy KipKosgei Chepsiror (47.1), Timothy Kitum (1:45.4), Caleb Ndiku (3:52.9) KEN

3 USA Red 9:18.21 Andrew Wheating (2:52.2), Quentin Summers (44.8), Duane Solomon (1:45.0), David Torrence (3:56.2) USAr

4 USA Blue 9:19.33 Matthew Centrowitz (2:53.4), Kind Butler (45.5), Charles Jock (1:45.7), Bernard Lagat (3:54.8) USAb

5 Ireland 9:24.10 Paul Robinson (2:52.8), Brian Gregan (45.9), Mark English (1:46.7), Ciaran O'Lionaird (3:58.7) IRL

6 Australia 9:28.74 Collis Birmingham (2:52.8), Kurt Mulcahy (45.8), James Kaan (1:48.0), Ryan Gregson (4:02.1) AUS

7 Canada 9:29.15 Kyle Smith (2:53.5), Mike Robertson (46.0), Geoff Harris (1:47.3), Matt Lincoln (4:02.4) CAN

8 Morocco 9:40.80 Abdelhadi Labali (2:53.0), Marouane El Maadadi (51.2), Samir Jamma (1:50.7), Soufiyan Bouqantar (4:05.9) MAR

Great Britain DNF Chris Warburton, Martyn Rooney, Joe Thomas, Matt McLaughlin GBR

From that it looks much more likely that Morocco fell with the 51 400m leg.

trollism wrote:

Ethiopians win with an average age of -3 and an average hct of 55.

Great job.

awesome

US could have won if we had our best guys from each team.

I can't decide how I should feel about the race for the US teams. Particularly the anchor legs. Did Torrence blow it? Should I expect him to hold off good runs by Wote and Ndiku? Lagat preserved 4th but wouldn't risk chasing the lead. It's still only April...

Jock was trying to battle with Aman, he died hard, but kodos on not being afraid to run with the Olympic medalist.

goodsport wrote:

The announcer said Ethiopia

The root of your troubles is this irrational belief that TV announcers are watching the same meet you are.

Now if it happened down at your local HS track....

trending is the newest metric wrote:

goodsport wrote:

The announcer said Ethiopia

The root of your troubles is this irrational belief that TV announcers are watching the same meet you are.

Now if it happened down at your local HS track....

Turns out Lee Diffey has a great accent and seems smart, but there is simply no way they came within a second of the WR and were the team that went down . Plus they somehow also managed to stay in contention throughout. Green tops. Silly comment. I was surprised Bolden did not correct it.

With teams that good, you don't recover from a fall to win. And the 51 in the results gives that away (though I wish ever in my life I could run a 51 without falling down).

He also seemed at times unaware of the three turn stagger for a 4x400, thinking someone was running well when the following curve was going to shed a lot of what looked like a lead, if not all of it.

g o usa wrote:

US could have won if we had our best guys from each team.

Not even close. Red was better in the first 3 categories and Lagat only beat Torrence by 1.4 seconds. Even with Lagat's split, we would have lost by 2 seconds.

norphxc wrote:

Jock was trying to battle with Aman, he died hard, but kodos on not being afraid to run with the Olympic medalist.

Aman was not an Olympic medalist, unless you're referring to Timothy Kitum.

Raptured wrote:

Not even close. Red was better in the first 3 categories and Lagat only beat Torrence by 1.4 seconds. Even with Lagat's split, we would have lost by 2 seconds.

Try you math again. It would have been about a half second, and maybe Lagat could have kicked harder if he was closer to 1st.

Thanks for catching that. Got him confused with Amos somehow.