Lille France world games 2011 wrote:
Jacob Burcham ran this time at the same age. Yeah it is a great time but I think the Newberry Park guys are a bit more impressive. Also he wasn’t first so quite a few boys roughly the same age running a bit faster at that time.
Everyone's ages are listed in the results. He's 3+ years younger than everyone else in the race.
I clearly meant burcham but lets run was too busy being contrary to not be stupid. My god you are dumb
Aussiestatman, on an American website, you're asking why I would contextualize an Aussie 15 year old's mile time by reference to the best ever American sophomores? That is an age group standard that can allow us to judge how good a prospect this kid is, since millions of Americans have run middle distance in formal track programs as sophomores. Since he compares favorably to the top five American sophomores of all time, we can say reasonably that he is a great prospect. And, to respond to runninghelper, because this kid is turning 16 in June, he would be a sophomore in this country and thus should be compared not with 15 year olds--for age group records, he'd count as 16, because he will turn 16 this year--but with those turning 16, and the vast majority of American sophomores turn 16 prior to September.
zxcvzxcv wrote:
Aussiestatman, on an American website, you're asking why I would contextualize an Aussie 15 year old's mile time by reference to the best ever American sophomores? That is an age group standard that can allow us to judge how good a prospect this kid is, since millions of Americans have run middle distance in formal track programs as sophomores. Since he compares favorably to the top five American sophomores of all time, we can say reasonably that he is a great prospect. And, to respond to runninghelper, because this kid is turning 16 in June, he would be a sophomore in this country and thus should be compared not with 15 year olds--for age group records, he'd count as 16, because he will turn 16 this year--but with those turning 16, and the vast majority of American sophomores turn 16 prior to September.
The joke is that Australian are much faster than Americans in the 1500, and therefore their juniors should be compared to the Ingebrigtsens or the Kenyans. I get it though man, understanding jokes is hard! Keep working at it!
Worth noting he just ran a 1:50.8 in the 800m
Word is he will be pacing open 3k champs next week. A 15 year old rabbit how crazy....
How are Aussies better than Americans at 1500m? When's their last gold medal? 1896.
Aussie national record, 3:29.51, Stewart McSweyn.
U.S. Bernard Lagat, 3:27.40.
Times in the top 100 all-time:
U.S. 11
AUS 4
Runninghelper wrote:
World record mile for 15 year old is 4:08.8 ehh.
Ok so now 3:33 hmmmm Now faster than any US high schooler and he still is only a junior in high school.
