Abraham Kiprotich of France ran 2:06.54 to become the fastest marathoner in 2017 (So far) not fro Kenya or Ethiopia, France joins Japan as the only non African nations with 3 Marathoners under 2017 on the All time list. A Kenyan was 2nd in 2:07.21
Abraham Kiprotich of France ran 2:06.54 to become the fastest marathoner in 2017 (So far) not fro Kenya or Ethiopia, France joins Japan as the only non African nations with 3 Marathoners under 2017 on the All time list. A Kenyan was 2nd in 2:07.21
IAAF World list for 2017. https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior/2017
This was his first race since 2013 according to Tilastopaja.
"Abraham Kiprotich"
"Not from Kenya"
Lol
French Dawg wrote:
"Abraham Kiprotich"
"Not from Kenya"
Lol
Ha!
Eye opening top 100. Rupp, 5 Japanese runners and everyone else from Kenya or Ethiopia.
Is this the one that was already busted for doping?
French Dawg wrote:
"Abraham Kiprotich"
"Not from Kenya"
Lol
Exactly
Yeah, eye opening all right. Take a look at this top 100 from the year 2000.
A white guy was the world's fastest, with 6 white guys in top 20, 3 Asians, 1 Brazilian, 1 Moroccan, 1 Ethiopian, and 8 Kenyans.
6 white guys 2:08:41 and under. In 2017? None.
https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior/2000
something fishy wrote:
Yeah, eye opening all right. Take a look at this top 100 from the year 2000.
A white guy was the world's fastest, with 6 white guys in top 20, 3 Asians, 1 Brazilian, 1 Moroccan, 1 Ethiopian, and 8 Kenyans.
6 white guys 2:08:41 and under. In 2017? None.
https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior/2000
This is laughable. A Portuguese man counts as a white guy? His name was Antonio Pinto there's nothing white about him. There's actually TWO Moroccan men there also since it seems you're just looking at flags and can't see that El Mouaziz is clearly not some white guy. Your only white guy was number 20.
Correction KK shows up twice and once with the US flag. Clearly not a white guy.
96% of the portuguese population are white (with celt, roman, and german ancestry), Antonio Pinto is no exception.
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/content/thumbnails/00096/09522-zoom.jpg
So is Rupp the fastest non-East African this year?
Why has this guy been invited back to compete?? Maybe EPO did not work on him because he is of Kenyan origin so the race organizers are making allowances ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Kiprotich
"On 30 December 2013 it was announced that Kiprotich had failed a drug test directly after his Istanbul Marathon win, having returned a positive result for erythropoietin (EPO) in a urine sample.[8] The leading French sports journal l'Equipe reported that this adverse finding, which related to his 'A' sample, surprised no-one, and would confirm - if the 'B' sample also proved positive - a suspicion in French athletic circles that Kiprotich was the athlete referred to on 17 April 2013 at a French senatorial anti-doping enquiry, when the president and technical director of the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme both noted that a French marathon runner who had won in Daegu had competed while subject to a two-week suspension for breaches of their medical surveillance regime.[9]"
Gabius will be faster in Frankfurt
Put a German with a gun at the start and sub 2 is a done deal, if a Frenchman is running
Takinadump wrote:
This is laughable. A Portuguese man counts as a white guy? His name was Antonio Pinto there's nothing white about him. There's actually TWO Moroccan men there also since it seems you're just looking at flags and can't see that El Mouaziz is clearly not some white guy. Your only white guy was number 20.[/quote]
At first I thought you can't possibly be serious, but then I realized there is a good segment of the population that is educated so poorly that certain things can be very confusing to them while being obvious to the rest of us,
He has improved after his doping ban lol.
I am french and I didn't even know who this guy is. The real french top marathon runners are H.Chadhi 2.10 in Paris this year, Benjamin Malaty 2.12 PB he just ran 2.13 in Berlin. Some track guys such as Florian Carvalho (3.33 for 1500m sub 7.45 for 3000m he just placed 3rd in the 20k of Paris running 58.40 for his first race above 10k) and Yoann Kowal just switched to road racing aiming the marathon for the Paris Olympic games in 2024.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts