Levins vs Brannen in Canadian Nationals 1500m Today. Who Wins?

Athletics Canada needs to put a cap on the slowest time you can run at Nationals to still qualify for Worlds. That's crap that my tax dollars are going to fund an athlete who earned his ticket to Worlds running 4:06. Kevin Sullivan and Taylor Milne wouldn't let that happen.

This will go down in history as the craziest race ever.

No, that would have to be the OUA 3000m this year.

Next year the runners should walk for 1100m while holding hands then sprint the last lap.

First of all, if all they had done this year was run 4:06, then they wouldn't qualify for Worlds. Second, your "tax dollars" argument holds no water; it's possible (but unlikely) that a dollar or two of what you pay in taxes goes to athletes, which would mean that any one athlete might get a fraction of a penny from you. They don't owe you anything.

The Original Poster wrote:

This will go down in history as the craziest race ever.

Heres a video

410 Men 1500 Meter RunSenior

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Canadian: @ 3:31.71 6/30/2000 Kevin Sullivan

Championship: $ 3:38.03 2008 Taylor Milne

World: # 3:26.00 7/14/1998 Hicham Lel Guerrouj, MAR

Name Year TeamFinals

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Finals

1 Riva, Thomas 92 Uvic Track Club 4:06.16

2 Philibert-Thiboutot, Cha 90 C. A. Univer 4:06.58

3 Gorman, Daniel 88 Halifast Athletics4:06.88

4 Rae, Jeremy 91 Speed River 4:06.98

5 Brannen, Nathan 82 Phoenix Athl 4:07.07

6 Levins, Cameron 89 Nike 4:07.24

7 Kent, Justin 92 Coastal Track Club 4:07.80

8 Morin, Nicolas 94 C. A. Univer 4:07.84

9 Falk, Nicholas 91 U Windsor AC 4:07.94

10 Darlington, Connor 93 Harbour Track 4:08.29

11 Wilkie, Alex 94 Physi-Kult Kingston 4:10.44

12 Lapointe, Jean-Samuel 91 C. A. Univer 4:10.82

Event409 Women 1500 Meter Run Senior

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Canadian: @ 4:00.27 8/30/1985 Lynn Williams

Championship: $ 4:04.51 2004 Malindi Elmore

World: # 3:50.46 9/11/1993 Yunxia Qu, CHN

Name Year Team Finals

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Finals

1 Sifuentes, Nicole 86 Unattached-Manitoba 4:20.29

2 Gollish, Sasha 81 U Toronto TC 4:20.43

3 Van Buskirk, Kate 87 Newmarket HU 4:20.70

4 Reid, Sheila 89 Nike 4:24.08

5 * Inglish, Sarah 91 Scotland 4:26.42

6 Ayers, Katelyn 95 Speed River 4:26.79

7 Watts, Sophie 94 Unattached N 4:27.07

8 Roy, Joanie 91 Coureur Nordique 4:29.53

9 Pomfret, Kendra 91 Uvic Track Club 4:29.75

10 Kelly, Mariah 91 Niagara Regi 4:30.56

11 Digby, Erica 89 Vancouver TH 4:32.08

12 Soderberg, Nicole 92 Unattached Alberta 4:40.97

-- Bibault, Emma 94 Uvic Track Club DNS]

mac daddy FTL wrote:

So no one goes for either 1500m or 800m to Worlds?! Or is there time after Nationals to get Std? Thought it was a done deal this weekend.

I think the winner has the standard, no?

The men's race needs a foreigner like they had in the women's race to keep the pace honest.

The standard is 3:36.20.

Riva ran a personal best this year of 3:39.46.

Charles Philibert-Thibitout has run 3:38.32.

So you have to finish top-three at nationals, as those two did while from January 1st 2015 until tomorrow, under 3:36.20.

The third guy's pb is 3:53.

Levins, if he wanted it and Brannen could have should have and Charles could have - in other words we could have possibly...maybe...have three guys in the the worlds.

Looks like zero.

Not that it changes anything, but Gorman has run 3:40 not 3:53.

I see. I copy/pasted his indoor time by mistake. My bad. Always in a rush...

zfgdfgdfgdfg wrote:

Looks like they were 2:12!!! at 700m with the leaders around 3:14.0 at the bell.

The women actually ran the first 700m faster than the men.

Needed this guy in the race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVxxaj1j9nE

Easy to say in retrospect, but Levins should have just gone hard from the gun. Going 5:00+ pace for the first half just lets everybody into the race.

Athletics Illustrated wrote:

The standard is 3:36.20...

So you have to finish top-three at nationals, as those two did while from January 1st 2015 until tomorrow, under 3:36.20.

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Maybe the top 3 guys should put a race together today. Why not? This 4:06 probably didn't tire them that much.