British Athletics World Champs Team - Olympic 1500m medallist Hunter-Bell is ONLY doing 800

I think this year's field is Hiltz' best chance of a medal. I'd love to see Jess Hull repeat her Paris silver too

Max Burgin has got a tough road to the medals. He's 1-5 against Arop, 1-8 against Wanyonyi and 0-2 against Sedjati, not to mention the Americans. I think he'll be in the final though.

I just don't know about Kerr, his outing at the London Diamond League didn't exactly inspire huge confidence and its hard to judge his GST performances.

If Mills stays on his feet it will be a success. I'm not hopeful.

I did some research on Bell . It looks like this Olympic Medalist does not hold a school record at a modest U Cal program ?! I also could find her progress from Cal through 2023. Do burritos exist in England ?

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The race in which he ran faster than the season's bests of all but one of last year's 1500m finalists? Meaning his current season's best is faster than proven medal threats Jakob, Hocker, Nuguse and even Laros? I mean sure, he was second in the race yeah, but it wasn't exactly a disaster.

I was more impressed with Linden Hall, than Hiltz in the last race - at least she went for it. If the race is fast off the front, Linden seems like she would better be able to handle it, along with Hull, better than Hiltz. Was hoping Johnson (if she didn't fall) would mix it up at the front as well. Hiltz has a good kick, but not if others are too far ahead to use it. If Hiltz gets caught in a second pack, it might be too difficult to close.

You must be new here. There was a whole thread on GHB winning a bronze last year from nowhere that caused a Letsrun meltdown

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The poster above on Kerr is correct. The time to be concerned for Kerr is if his best performances are nowhere near competitive. His GST and London performances were pretty good, so he should be in a good spot for Worlds.

I think it’s purely for the fact that the 1500m is very competitive at the moment and she has more of a chance to medal (and silver at that) since the 800m is weak - Keely has zero threats this year.

GHB has a great kick and top end speed so will be a medal contender in the 800m. Whereas this may not happen in the 1500m.

I also agree - do not underestimate Laura Muir. She has been injured but she is also a master at peaking at the right time (never at the British champs where she tends to have us worried!). Her last performance- where she was put off her stride with the fall in front- was really strong and I feel she had more in the tank.

Lots of 800m/1500m runners do well in their early 30s. That’s when Kelly Holmes won her double Olympic gold.

Max Burgin for once has had an injury free year and when he flew past Arop in his last race….! Impressive. Just needs to time it better - I agree though he’ll probably end up with 4th. The men’s 800m is ridiculous.

We’ve not seen much of Kerr. But like Muir he’s a master of timing his peak for when it matters…

Another one to watch is Emile Cairess…

I don’t think it makes sense to be more impressed by Hall than Hiltz in that race. Were you more impressed by Nuguse than Laros at Pre?

Of the Diamond League races this year, Brussels was exactly in the middle time-wise. Faster than Nelly Chepchirchir’s wins in Doha and Paris and Sarah Healy’s win in Rome, and slower than Kipyegon’s world record at Pre, and Tsegay’s two wins at London and Silesia. It was hardly a walk.

With Hunter Bell out, I think Hiltz is very well positioned to kick for Bronze in Tokyo, hopefully in 3:54 to clean up the national record.

I wouldn't say I was more impressed by Hall, but Hiltz has a long history of running well behind the leading pack and then kicking hard for 5th. I would have been less sceptical of her medal chances if she had at least tried to lead the race at any point or even stayed within a reasonable distance of the lead. Instead her victory depended entirely on Hall fading badly (despite finishing 2nd, the rest of the top 7 all had faster finishing 400s), which will certainly not be the case when Kipyegon, Hull, Welteji, etc are in the lead pack. So we didn't learn much from this race apart from that Hiltz is capable of winning from significantly behind in a scenario when the lead runner is practically walking the last lap and her main competitor is tripped early and DNFs.

I can only assume that he's got a race lined up to try and get the standard in the next few days. There's no chance of getting in on the rankings.

The qualification period closed on the 24th

Wightman will make the final but I largely agree with the rest. Hannah Nuttall could make the 5k final, she has a good kick in a 14:40 race. I wouldn't entirely rule out a bronze for Burgin, but it would be a slight surprise. And I maintain that Kerr is a realistic shot for gold.

I'm surprised how hot some people are on Mills in this thread. On paper, he's should up there with Hocker as a medal threat in the 5k - how many guys have 12:46 strength and 3:28 speed? But he's just a terrible racer. He does well enough at the Euros but he can brute force a silver there because he's so much fitter than everyone that Jakob. At Worlds, there's so many guys who are better than him in a championship setting. I'm not convinced he'll even finish in the top 8.

I think the UK Athletics "qualifying world ranking position" doesn't necessarily mean world ranking, and takes into account that Zak has only missed the standard by 0.66 seconds. UK Athletics also has a consideration standard of 8.16.50 which Zak has met.

Mills will get himself into a mad position in the first heat, fall over, cause a pile-up, then shove someone afterwards and claim they messed up his race.

Then I don't know what's going on. There's no hope of him getting a rankings invite

Tha's a bit unfair on Burgin. This is the first season he's had injury free since he was 16. He's clearly on a different level to previous years and only going to get better and better.

I wont count Monaco because he got clipped badly. So this season he is:

1-1 Arop
2-1 Masalela
1-2 Wanyouni
0-2 Hoey
2-1 Hoppel
1-0 Tual
1-1 Attaoui
1-0 Brazier

I'm just not seeing it with Wightman, but maybe he'll prove me wrong. Defer to you on Nuttall, it's gonna be a tough final to make and heat-dependent (double meaning intended) with all the top women (N'getich, Tsegay, Chebet, Kipyegon, Hailu, Battocletti) running the 5,000 honestly. Kerr assuredly does, I see him anywhere from 1st to 5th.

For Mills, I'm more downgrading the 5,000 field (which is missing many top guys to the 10,000), and thinking he can just hang onto Jakob's or Fisher's coattails when it comes down to it. He'll be completely fresh, which could be a major advantage.