Who will have a better career when all is said and done? Sydney McLaughlin or Jakob Ingebrigtsen?

Jakob will break all the world records from 1500m to half marathon, so clearly he will have a better career.

Brazilian Guy wrote:

I think Sydney will have a more impressive/accomplished career just because the 400m H is a far less competitive event than the 1500/5000.

+1 The 400h W is a pretty weak event

shwoopsie wrote:

poopypants101 wrote:

This thread is dumb dumb fa shiz. It’s like comparing apples to lobsters....can’t do it! He freaking shreds from 800-5k....Sydney shreds the 400....nuff said. Both very talented individuals but Jakob is by farrrrrrrr wayyyyyyy more talented and has already accomplished more than she ever will in her career.

Uh no. She already has a global silver and is the 2nd fastest ever at an event. Jakob hasn’t come near that.

bruh. its like comparing a WNBA star's success to an NBA star's success....just can't do it! yuh feel?!?!? Poopypants101 i agree 100%!

ILikeBananas wrote:

shwoopsie wrote:

Uh no. She already has a global silver and is the 2nd fastest ever at an event. Jakob hasn’t come near that.

bruh. its like comparing a WNBA star's success to an NBA star's success....just can't do it! yuh feel?!?!? Poopypants101 i agree 100%!

Great simile!

ILikeBananas wrote:

shwoopsie wrote:

Uh no. She already has a global silver and is the 2nd fastest ever at an event. Jakob hasn’t come near that.

bruh. its like comparing a WNBA star's success to an NBA star's success....just can't do it! yuh feel?!?!? Poopypants101 i agree 100%!

Repeating a lie over and over doesn’t make it true.

ILikeBananas wrote:

Dis you?

Fact of the matter is, if they had a match race, Jakob would lose 100, 200, and the 400 to a girl.

The 400h is not a weak event. It's arguably the toughest event right now considering the world record holder is still active.

Sydney. She'll be a world-record holder and probably have more golds. I think Jakob will play second-fiddle to the east Africans for a few years before he gets a gold. I also don't think Jakob has as much upside as Sydney, I think his times will peter out. Or not and I'm completely wrong.

It is one of the weakest events. You are not a real fan if you can't admit this. When 47 and 1:53 are the 400 and 800 world records and the 400h is only 52, you realize that the best athletes do not run the 400h. Sydney's PR is only 50 in the 400. There have been many better 400 runners who did not lower themselves to doing the 400h. That is how many runners view it.

1:46 and you don't think he would run 49? You are crazy. He may even beat her in the 100 and 200 and he would crush her in her own event if running over the women's hurdles. Conversely, he would lap her in a 1500.

You guys can argue that it isn’t competitive until you are blue in the face but Syd will be more successful, more remembered and have more notoriety.

Lyles is the real answer on who the young star is, though.

you misspelled norman

the men's 1500 is statistically the most competitive event in track and field. The 400m hurdles, is not. zero contest.

No idea. Either of them could have a career ending injury in their next race or burn out young from doing too much too young.

Jakob will main reason is that there is so much more competition in mid distance. How many women are out there that run in the 52's? Not many and prob cuz not many women find it as an interesting event.

Let Syd run on the 400 instead and then we.can see if her status improves.

Besides her Instagram influencer role she has done nothing to even say she is still interested in racing

Officialdb wrote:

the men's 1500 is statistically the most competitive event in track and field. The 400m hurdles, is not. zero contest.

How so?

Anyway, the competitiveness within the same sport is not going to win the argument.

WinnytheBish wrote:

The 400h is not a weak event. It's arguably the toughest event right now considering the world record holder is still active.

This is a great point. The 400h is currently like the El G/Lagat days of the 1500. Where Jakob would've been an even more distant also-ran.

go go away wrote:

It is one of the weakest events. You are not a real fan if you can't admit this. When 47 and 1:53 are the 400 and 800 world records and the 400h is only 52, you realize that the best athletes do not run the 400h. Sydney's PR is only 50 in the 400. There have been many better 400 runners who did not lower themselves to doing the 400h. That is how many runners view it.

The women's record in the 400h is legit and is in line with the times women run the 400 and 800 these days. The women's record in the 400m/800m are extreme outliers. The best 400m women in the world usually only run 49x and 48 on rare occasions and no normal women has run under 1:55 since the 1980s. When the 2 best 400m hurdlers can earn a spot on the world's best 4x4 relay suggest their 400h performance is legit. One other way of looking at it is Sydney and Dalilah would make the U.S. high school boys top-10 list in the 400h, but the world's best women 400m and 800m athletes would not make the top-3 in many states in America.

In terms of who will have the greatest career I give the slight edge to Sydney because she has literally only had 2 years of hard training. Also, she may have only only scratched the surface of her capabilities; I think she could medal in the 200m and 100h if she worked on it. I repeat...if she worked on those events.