Men's marathon
Men's marathon
lotus123 wrote:
Random question xyz wrote:
2:02.50 is honestly a pretty tough standard. Very impressive that multiple hs girls got it
No high school boy has EVER run the current 800 standard. Yet many girls have have run faster than the women's standard, including 14-year old Mary Decker. If 3 high schoolers can run the standard in the same year it's too easy.
Compare that to the 5000. The national high school record is 14 seconds slower than the qualifying standard.
I think a better comparison is whether more women hit 2:02.50 than men hit the men’s standard each year. That will identify how tough it is in an absolute sense. And I suspect the numbers are not all that different, probably a bit more on the women’s side. I think there are probably other reasons more HSers get under on the women’s side
The women’s marathon hands down
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Milethon wrote:
The women's marathon by far.
I agree.
I think the OP meant track and field, since the marathon olympic trials are a completely different event.
For track and field, any throwing event standard is really easy.
Noah Hansen wrote:
Women’s distance is pretty soft in terms of qualifying standards.
800 is somewhat soft but not as soft as 10000, 5000, and 1500 (women’s side specifically).
All three of those events have pretty soft standards.
Agree. Especially the 5000.
OTQ should equal the OQ like the sprints. OQ on world ranking would be ok.
big ten snob wrote:
Javelin of course. The field of competitors in the world is tiny. How many high school athletes in the US train for javelin?
The trials standard may be soft (and potentially reflective of the low participation numbers in the US) but the Olympic Standard is stupidly high (at 85m). I believe that only 10-12 men globally have met the standard this season.