Oh! Kuoros' 24 hour track record: 303+ km.... Or maybe his 6 day record.
Oh! Kuoros' 24 hour track record: 303+ km.... Or maybe his 6 day record.
kjnb wrote:
Radcliffe
OP stated world record not subcatgories. Literally 1000s ran faster so not a world record.
Easily 12.37.35
Not even Komen who was a crazy good runner could come within touching distance.
Bekele = best ever. Easily
oddgs wrote:
Paula Radcliffe's 2:15 is equivalent to breaking 2:00 for the men's marathon. So objectively Radcliffe's marathon time is the best.
No, the clock runs the same speed for men and women. Objectively, Radcliffe was 10 mins slower then the world record. Any other interpretation is subjective.
The woman who ran 1:52 for 800m, lasted longer than Bob Beamon's long jump. Or the 400m record.
Lynn Bjorkland's HS 3000m record,from 1975 to 2013.
Maybe not the greatest record, but the greatest race:
Rudisha London 2012
This one dude ate an entire motorcycle. That is pretty badass.
All marks mentioned great. But it's hard to overlook Stefka Kostadinova's HJ, at '87 WC 2.09 (6'10") HJ.
Jonathon Edwards' WR at '95 Goteborg WC was 18.29 (60'1/4") not as previously mentioned here.
Lance Armstrongs 7 consecutive tour victories, okay not clean but to keep him out of harms way, to hide the dope, to not crack under the pressure it's absolutely incredible. Maybe not one to celebrate? But It's truly amazing.
Bekele, Koman, El G ( in that order )
Bob Beamon in 68.
AC/DC's 'Back in Black' is the best world record of all time!!
Agreed.
And Shorter was in contact at 9K, then wins the marathon 5 days later. They do not make Franks and Virens anymore.
Roger Maris 61
It will never be broken.
Knower of records wrote:
Easily 12.37.35
Not even Komen who was a crazy good runner could come within touching distance.
Bekele = best ever. Easily
12:37 was marginal improvement on Haile's 12:39. No way it makes this discussion. Komen also ran 12:39.
Keeping this to fairly recent distance WRs, Komen's 3000 and Haile's second 5000 stand out. While Haile's was improved upon (including, impressively, by himself - TWICE!), it was a freakin' ELEVEN second improvement at that relatively short - and very well-contested - distance. Amazing. From a legends-couldn't-(and still haven't)-touched-it standpoint, Komen's 3000 might be the best. Namely, neither Haile nor El G nor Bekele - in their primes - came close (although I've also always wondered if Komen also perhaps set a WR for EPO use prior to that, but....). I suppose one could also argue that El G's 3:26 is in that Komen/3K neighborhood, too.
When you accuse everyone of using drugs you only make yourself look like a libelous idiot
Mike Powell's LJ record is not even the true WR. That belongs to Ivan Pedroso who was victim of the worst WR robberies ever. Pedroso broke the record in '95 in Italy, it was clean, wind was +1.2, the mark even remains an official mark. Yet the Italians refused to ratify the record. (They came up with some ridiculous excuse, said some guy was blocking the anemometer, which was proven on video to not be the case, and it still had a reading of +1.2, so couldn't have been blocked)
Much speculation as to the real reason why. It probably was political. There was a Mercedes given to any WR back then and they didn't want to give it to Castro.
3khigh5 wrote:
Maybe not the greatest record, but the greatest race:
Rudisha London 2012
10/10
I agree with Yiannis Kouros 24-hour track run of 303.506 km/188.590 miles. (1997)
This is good benchmark - the second best 24-hour run is only 91% of this.
If we're talking about any world record at any point in time, I'll go with Bannister's sub-4.
cbenson4 wrote:
If we're talking about any world record at any point in time, I'll go with Bannister's sub-4.
Dude was doped to the gills on oxygen
The winner is clearly bolts 9.58
Honourable mention to gebs 12-44
The incredible sudden drop in distance records coincided suspiciously with the advent of EPO it must be said