Galen Rupp is the American distance GOAT and you are without excuse to not accept this

Frank shorter

Billy Mills

Jim Ryun

Gold medal or world record exceeds rupp or lagat's accomplishments while a us citizen

I guess we all have our own metrics. I would not put Mills in the top 15.

surprised nobody has mentioned ryan hall yet...

The seventies and the 60s wrote:

Frank shorter

Billy Mills

Jim Ryun

Gold medal or world record exceeds rupp or lagat's accomplishments while a us citizen

Except that Lagat has several golds as a US citizen.

I'm surprised anyone would consider mentioning Ryan Hall in this context.

????? wrote:

surprised nobody has mentioned ryan hall yet...

Meb too.

Seattle White Hair wrote:

I'm surprised anyone would consider mentioning Ryan Hall in this context.

Hall's got our half & full marry records

The mile gets all the best distance runners and Rupp doesn't rate with 3:50 indoors but no titles.

lmaoohahaha wrote:

Brodey hasty????????? lol

Joey DeFeo.

????? wrote:

Seattle White Hair wrote:

I'm surprised anyone would consider mentioning Ryan Hall in this context.

Hall's got our half & full marry records

No he doesn’t.

ruppgoat wrote:

a bunch of haters will show up to this thread and try to deny it but the facts speak for themselves.

Lukas Verzbicas is better than Galen Rupp

800

Lagat 1:46

Rupp 1:48

Advantage Lagat

1500

Lagat 3:27.40 AR

Rupp 3:34.15

Advantage Lagat

3000

Lagat 7:29.00 AR

Rupp 7:30.16i AR

Advantage Lagat

5000

Lagat 12:53.60

Rupp 12:58

Advantage Lagat

10000

Lagat 27:49

Rupp 26:44 AR

Advantage Rupp

1/2 Marathon

Lagat 62:00

Rupp 59:47

Advantage Rupp

Marathon

Lagat 2:17:20 debut

Rupp 2:06:07

Advantage Rupp

Lagat's been running masters' world records or close to them at every distance but marathon, and his 10k and up results are from his races over 40 years old, so a little hard to give Rupp the unequivocal edge.

When you then figure on American titles and world and Olympic medals, Rupp has silver in the 10 at London 2012, bronze in the marathon at Rio, and he won Chicago, while Lagat couldn't compete at his peak in 2005 because of his switch in citizenship but was double gold winner in 1500 and 5000 in 2007, as well as silver in the 5000 in 2009 and 2011, plus bronze in the 1500m in 2009. He also had two golds and a silver at world indoors. I'm only counting races where he ran for the U.S.

lmaoohahaha wrote:

Brodey hasty????????? lol

I mean who will be tops in the future, he has done nothing YET , I just put his name in there because he is the top current high school distance runner, All the current best All Time Runners will someday get surpassed, by who is the question, it could be 50 years before another American runs faster than 3:27.40, heck Johnny Grey's 1:42.60 Amerivan Record in the 800 was set 33 years ago.

quitecontrary wrote:

????? wrote:

Hall's got our half & full marry records

No he doesn’t.

Yes he does:

Ryan Hall: 59:43 (Houston '07), 2:04:58 (Boston '11)

Galen Rupp: 59:47 ( Roma-Ostia Lido '18) 2:06:07(Praha '18)

zxcvzxcv wrote:

3000

Lagat 7:29.00 AR

Rupp 7:30.16i AR

Advantage Lagat

5000

Lagat 12:53.60

Rupp 12:58

Advantage Lagat

The 3000m should be tied, as indoor 7:30 3000m is at the very least equal to 7:29 outdoor. And if you are going to do indoor vs out door, what about rupp's indoor 5000m records of 13:01.46?. Also, Rupp indoor 2 mile record of 8:07.41 ?

I'm a big Brodey Hasty fan. But it was funny when you mentioned him in a thread about American distance GOAT lmao

????? wrote:

quitecontrary wrote:

No he doesn’t.

Yes he does:

Ryan Hall: 59:43 (Houston '07), 2:04:58 (Boston '11)

Galen Rupp: 59:47 ( Roma-Ostia Lido '18) 2:06:07(Praha '18)

2:04:58a is not the American record.

Aside from the fact that Lagat was one of the best milers in history, and has long-standing national records, and global titles, other than that, if you compare them at long distance, yeah, Rupp is ahead.