Best steeplechaser to never win an Olympic medal?

It's Shaheen, but his success at World Champs makes you think it's more due to timing than anything.

Paul Kipsiele Koech technically doesn't qualify (bronze in '04), but he had a great mental block when it came to medaling in Championships that really hasn't plagued many runners as good as him. You could probably include Alan Webb in the same category though he had a lot more overall inconsistency in his performances altogether. Maybe you could toss Augustine Choge, Ayanleh Souleiman or Nixon Chepseba in this camp, which probably just shows that the 1500 is a tough event.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

It's Shaheen, but his success at World Champs makes you think it's more due to timing than anything.

Paul Kipsiele Koech technically doesn't qualify (bronze in '04), but he had a great mental block when it came to medaling in Championships that really hasn't plagued many runners as good as him. You could probably include Alan Webb in the same category though he had a lot more overall inconsistency in his performances altogether. Maybe you could toss Augustine Choge, Ayanleh Souleiman or Nixon Chepseba in this camp, which probably just shows that the 1500 is a tough event.

Paul Kipsiele Koech is Unique among Kenyan Runners in that he was born and raised at Sea Level, And The Kenyan Trials is always at High Altitude, so he rarely made the Team For the World Championships and Olympics.

SteepleSavant wrote:

Portland beatnik wrote:

It's Henry Marsh and it's not close

10th 1976

80 boycott was a medal favorite

84 seeded second finished 4th

1988 6th

Yup...Ranked #1 in World several years; Screwed in '80. Sick in '84...

After getting scammed by carter he devoted himself to scamming others

Kerry O'Brien? WR, 4th in the altitude of Mexico City. (And he stepped the hurdles!)

You can definitely be more pregnant than others... being pregnant with twins is being more pregnant than a single pregnancy. Triples... all the way up to Octuplets being the current most pregnant a human could be....

MostPregnant wrote:

King George wrote:

There is no "cleanest". There is either clean or not.

It's like being pregnant.

You can definitely be more pregnant than others... being pregnant with twins is being more pregnant than a single pregnancy. Triples... all the way up to Octuplets being the current most pregnant a human could be....

Still one or the other.

I see your point though. Doped and doped to the gills.

Do you mean Koech?

douglas burke wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

Paul Kipkoech who has run under 8:10 an amazing 68 times

and under 8:00 9 times

My Bad he won a Bronze in 2004

YEs, he won Bronze during that crazy sweep in Athens.

but wait there's more wrote:

King George wrote:

Henry Rono.

+1

First person to come to my mind.

+2

I had the same man.

douglas burke wrote:

Paul Kipsiele Koech is Unique among Kenyan Runners in that he was born and raised at Sea Level, And The Kenyan Trials is always at High Altitude, so he rarely made the Team For the World Championships and Olympics.

Yep I'd heard this! Still 3 other appearances in the Worlds with just two fourths and a seventh all to show. So, even when he made the finals, he had trouble translating his form.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

It's Shaheen, but his success at World Champs makes you think it's more due to timing than anything.

Paul Kipsiele Koech technically doesn't qualify (bronze in '04), but he had a great mental block when it came to medaling in Championships that really hasn't plagued many runners as good as him. You could probably include Alan Webb in the same category though he had a lot more overall inconsistency in his performances altogether. Maybe you could toss Augustine Choge, Ayanleh Souleiman or Nixon Chepseba in this camp, which probably just shows that the 1500 is a tough event.

Koceh in my opinion is not a 'smart' runner.

Let me explain.

By smart, I mean he is not a tactics guy. He goes all out without giving a thought to tactics.

Kemboi on the other hand is a tactics guy. He knows how to read the race and size up his opponents.

Koech goes all out (hard) and that is the way he used to die.

Just my thoughts.