Cam Myers beats Jake Wightman 3:33.3

I agree. Adds a bit of fire in their belly. Wightman knows he needs to get his closing speed back and he’s not quite where he was pre-injury. Now’s the time to work on that so he can peak at the right time.

Kid looks amazing. So relaxed and in control.

Interview after the race

He’s surely made a lot of money this way and gotten to experience something new. Probably better than scraping into the final in Glasgow and likely missing out of the medals (based on the form we’ve seen)

Here are the results as well as each runner's last lap time.

Cameron Myers Bankstown Sports Athletics Clu 3:33.30 55.5
Jesse Hunt Victoria 3:33.64 55.64
Jake Wightman Great Britain 3:34.31 56.73
Jye Edwards Bankstown Sports Athletics Clu 3:34.42 56.44
Callum Davies Queensland 3:35.14 56.24
Connor Whiteley Sydney University Athletics Cl 3:36.19 57.09
Thomas Keen Great Britain 3:36.43 58.19
Paul Robinson Ireland 3:36.57 56.92
Ryoji Tatezawa Japan 3:37.13 56.93
Ben Thomas Randwick Botany Harriers Athle 3:37.96 59.31
Matthew Ramsden Western Australia 3:38.77 59.56
Stefan Music Randwick Botany Harriers Athle 3:44.11 59.87
Cameron Musgrove Athletics NSW 3:44.49 1:01.61
Tom Davies Sydney University Athletics Cl 3:45.40 59.6
Benjamin Jagger Run Crew 3:45.76 1:00.22
Adam Pyke Bankstown Sports Athletics Clu 3:46.26 1:02.95
Tom March Kembla Joggers Inc. 3:46.27 59.46
Harrison Mcgill Bankstown Sports Athletics Clu 3:50.49 1:04.98
Ethan Wyatt-Smith Bankstown Sports Athletics Clu 3:55.03 1:13.13
Luke Young Newcastle Flyers Runners Club 4:01.77 1:09.55

So does this mean indoors is now as fast as outdoors?

Wightman ran 3:34.06 indoors in Boston on Feb 4. Then he ran 3:52.11 in Australia (equivalent to 3:34.88) on February 15 and now 3:34.31.

With 10 to 12 contenders it looks like the chances for everyone is 10% to get a title.

Add to that that the most naturally adapted will prevails in a few years.

His finishing speed is fine, he just needs to gain fitness.

The difference has been marginal for a while. You trade pristine, windless conditions for more turns. Probably preferable to time trial indoors unless you have good conditions with drafting/pacing covered or are in a stadium setting (blocking the wind) like many of the Diamond League setups. Grant Fisher just ran 12:51 with only 2k of pacing, which would be trickier outdoors unless he lucked into a windless day. But he has run 12:46high in a very competitive Diamond League with better competition, little wind and good pacing.

EDIT: Will be interesting to see if Jake skips Euros. Doesn’t feel like he has the luxury of cutting short building his base to do so given how strong the Trials will be. Will not surprise me if it’s a similar squad to the World Indoors one, though maybe Mills contests it.

Myers appears to post all his running onto Strava, and is still only doing around 60 MPW. Laros was the same. If Myers gets a Monaco invite, he could well run 3;30. Then again, Monaco will be around his birthday, so not sure if it's before or after.

Monaco is July 12 so a month after he turns 18. Eugene/Oslo (he is Nike) have a mile and 1500, so he might have a crack or two right before his birthday.

So Jake Wightman has still not run the qualification time for Paris.

Yeah, decent money and travel. I think he could have been dangerous in Glasgow. Without most of the natural front runners, I think we could see a slow-ish final, maybe a 3:35 winning time. That could put Wightman in the mix

Maurie Plant was in the diary months ago, but the Sydney 1500 was only added to his schedule last week:

"I spoke to his [Wightman's] manager in Melbourne and said, 'Hey, listen, if it's a bit breezy, if he doesn't get his qualifier here [at Maurie Plant], look, we've got a race next Thursday in Sydney we're putting on', and within 36 hours it was confirmed," Templeton said.

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I just can’t really see it even in a “slow” race. He’s not producing a huge kick in a 3:33-4 race. I get that he had a nice last lap vs Hobbs but falling off the lead wasn't a good thing so running a 26 is less impressive if you don’t run the penultimate one hard. I don’t see him being able to hang with more than 1-2 of Hocker, Nader, Tefera, Mehary, Habz, Keter and Reynold right at this juncture.

I'm guessing that Jake will have to peak for the Olympic trials as more than likely Kerr won't run and will get the wild card.

Watch out for Jye Edwards as he looks more confident with each race .

Australian Champs, British trials and US trials are going to be sick . They'll be some potential Olympic finalists or even medalists watching the olympics from their living room (a situation usually restricted to Kenya in Mid distance) .

You are spot on. Just off his 3:33.26 PR. Meyers is ridiculously fast for his age. He won't be 18 until mid-June. Crazy.

Last place finisher Luke Young was running 3:43 in High School (2020). He has has some injury problems but is a talent for sure.

I believe we are supposed to say that he DESTROYED Wightman.