LETSRUN - can we get something on the front page about Wohlhuter's 2:13.9 40yr anniversay?

Bump until I get a response from the homies

wohllhy mammoth wrote:

It was an amazing feat (shattered the WR)

Amazing how much faster people have gotten in 40 years. 2:13 wouldn't even win a lot of HS girls races now. Rudisha would embarrass this Wohlhuter guy.

It's a fascinating history to this record. It looks like nobody was really bothering with it until Danie Malan lowered it 0.2 seconds in 1973, the year before Wohlhuter took more than 2 seconds off. It then took 8 years until Coe dropped another 1.22 off to 2:12.18. And Coe's mark stood a long time- even Noureddine Morceli "only" managed 2:13.73, more than 1.5 seconds short- and it was over 18 years later when Ngeny finally took it down to 2:11.96.

And in that time the great ElG never bothered. His one 1000 race, when he was still just 20, he finished 6th! And was won in 2:14.69 by Mahjoub Haïda, still 2.5 seconds slower than Coe.

So yeah, what Wohlhuter did was pretty studly.

http://www.alltime-athletics.com/m_1000ok.htm

Agreed.

I would have been entering the home stretch when he finished.

RW was a machine.

Larry Bernandez wrote:

wohllhy mammoth wrote:

It was an amazing feat (shattered the WR)

Amazing how much faster people have gotten in 40 years. 2:13 wouldn't even win a lot of HS girls races now. Rudisha would embarrass this Wohlhuter guy.

Idiot. We're talking 1000m not 800m.

Only a handful of men have run faster than Wohlhuter's 2:13.9, and I wouldn't be too surprised if Rudisha doesn't run faster than 2:13.

Not sure if it's clear from your history of the event, but Coe broke it twice, bringing it down by 0.5 first in 80 with 2:13.4 and then another 1:22 sec in 81 with 2:12.18. So he brought it down a total of 1.72 sec. I think I'm right in saying that Wohlhuter's remained the 2nd fastest ever over the distance until Cram's run in 85.

It's not clear from what I wrote but still, what Coe did (like a lot of things he did) was pretty incredible. It's quite a testament that he still remains no. 2!

Yes Coe was phenomenal, but everyone knows who he is. Rick is very rarely given the praise he is due. I think on his 40th anniversary LRC could give him a shoutout.

Dude,

I don't even know what you are talking about. You are old enoguh to know don't assume we read everything on twitter, email,e tc.

Give us a call and make your point.

844-LETSRUN

Is that really a phone number?

Sorry I didn't mean to sound critical just wanted to try to get your attention.

40 years ago on this past Sunday Rick Wohlhuter ran a World Record of 2:13.9 for 1000m. I think there was a brief thread on it where Rick himself posted.

The American record still stands and is now having a mid-life crisis at 40 and needs your attention.

Peer Mediator wrote:

Larry Bernandez wrote:

Amazing how much faster people have gotten in 40 years. 2:13 wouldn't even win a lot of HS girls races now. Rudisha would embarrass this Wohlhuter guy.

Idiot. We're talking 1000m not 800m.

Only a handful of men have run faster than Wohlhuter's 2:13.9, and I wouldn't be too surprised if Rudisha doesn't run faster than 2:13.

You really hurt my feelings!

Peer Mediator wrote:

I wouldn't be too surprised if Rudisha doesn't run faster than 2:13.

Rudisha doesn't give a rip about the 1000m record and neither does any other 800 elite, or 1500 elite either for that matter. Only half-wits care about off-distance records.

Nonsense. Any middle distance guy who thinks they are capable of getting close to any WR will want to give it a go. You think a runner doesn't want the words, "World Record holder" after their name?

Cram, Morceli, Kaki all made serious attempts at the record and failed. Are they all "half wits".

You think ELG, Geb & Bekele were half wits for going after the 3000?

So every 10 years or so someone makes a 1000m record attempt and it's a big deal?

El G, Geb and Bekele didn't give a rat's dingleberry about the 3000, they just wanted to beat Komen who had happened to give a superhuman performance at the distance. If Komen had run 2768.5 meters instead, they would have spent years banging their heads against his 2768.5 meter record.

Since they failed, nobody cares about the 3000, except indoors where it is a standard, not off distance. At which the only active runner to have gone sub-7:30 twice is the great Augustine Choge, which you probably didn't know because indoors isn't a big deal either, is it.

Not to feed a token LRC troll too much, but....

The fact that he set other World Record(s?) besides the 1000m, and that he beat the best 800m runners at the time when he ran the 2:13.9, handily at that, shows the strength of the performance more than his current ranking.

Oh come on! Now you guys are just antagonizing me. You have a section in the Week That Was called "Some records aren't meant to be broken", discussing things like this:

"We talked about this our Monaco 800-meter recap but how cool is it that the Australian 800 record of 1:44.40 has survived since Ralph Doubell ran that to win the 1968 Olympics? Talk of the now nearly 46-year-old record has been a popular topic every few year on LRC (2008 talk about it here, 2010 here)."

but couldn't put in a paragraph about the 40th anniversary of the 1000m American Record?!