17 year old Max Burgin front runs 1:45.39!

joel68 wrote:

Ludicrous to even talk about worlds and olympics next year.

This guy could be an absolute star, as long as this needless and reckless urge to crown folk as early as possible. Let him develop emotionally as well as physically and in a couple of years could see something really special.

Yes, it’s important not to attend a meet too early.

Just ask Kipchoge, who won the 5000m gold at the 2003 WC. Or Bekele who the silver medal at the senior world XC champ as a 19 yr old in 2001. Or...

What is important is not to get destroyed physically and mentally. Ask Granville (who never participated in the WC or Olympics)

Never mind runnerspace, the original clip is here.

https://www.runjumpthrow.com/videos/33606/

Yeh choose average examples such as Kipchoge & Bekele, most people would have them as GOATS. Not exactly representative. Plus there’s a big difference between 19 & only just turned 17.

Let the kid develop and have a career beyond a couple of seasons. I would love to see him still running at 23, when his body will have fully caught up with his talent.

Coevett wrote:

Gghhh wrote:

So he is ranked #1 in the UK (overall)????

Yes he is. And I wouldn't bet against him breaking 1:45 next weekend when he runs against the top British seniors for the first time.

I hope he does, I am there for the evening. Should be fantastic to watch him run

And still 2 more years as an U20

Trackside video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXZzhee-ZA

If he was American there would be 20 posts on the front page about this.

Oh great, letsrun going bonkers over another teenage phenom.

So about 4s behind Nijel?

Pfft. Unimpressive.

Halifax wrote:

Trackside video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXZzhee-ZA

So no wind, but he could run sub 1:45 someone drags him through. Very good performances from 2nd which I'm guessing was 1:46 and 3rd 1:47 (who looked quite young). Bergin though might fill out later and not run faster, though I hope not.

What's this kid's instagram account?

Coevett wrote:

I wouldn't bet against him breaking 1:45 next weekend when he runs against the top British seniors for the first time.

I'm not sure Giles, Wightman or Rowden are ready to run sub-1:46 at this stage of the season so I'm not convinced he will be pushed by extra competition to a sub-1:45 on Saturday.

Subway Surfers wrote:

What's this kid's instagram account?

This race was very, very impressive. 1:45.39 with 52.02/53.3 front-running with no drafting.

Give him a .6 second drop for 500m drafting, 1:44.8, then maybe a 1/2 second for a smaller positive split than ideal for 800m, supposedly. 1:44.3. With the extra push of racing others, I expect he'll dip under 1:44 this year. 1:43.8 is my guess.

At 17, this kid might well be a medal contender by next year or the following world's. However, he only ran 3:47.7 in the 1500m last year and doesn't have any 400s listed on IAAF so hard to judge the ultimate ceiling at 8 and 15.

Does anyone know how this compares to 17 year old Coe or Ovett?

Subway Surfers wrote:

Halifax wrote:

Trackside video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXZzhee-ZA

So no wind, but he could run sub 1:45 someone drags him through. Very good performances from 2nd which I'm guessing was 1:46 and 3rd 1:47 (who looked quite young). Bergin though might fill out later and not run faster, though I hope not.

Second place was Ben Pattison; He ran 1.46.71, also 17 but he'll be 18 soon. Big talent himself; Moving back up to 800 this year and has taken his PB from 1.54 to 1.46. He ran 21.7 for 200 last summer too so one to keep an eye on.

YMMV wrote:

Jakob's 3:31 at age 17 last year equates to a 1:43-mid 800, so Max has a good way to go to match that, but man he is slicing huge chunks out on a seemingly weekly basis now. It will be very interesting to see where tehy land by next year.

Yeah, however if Max ran this 800 in Monaco he may well have broken 1:44. What's Jakob's 2nd fastest 1500?

With this result I feel Max is very close to a Jakob-level phenom.

JC93 wrote:

Subway Surfers wrote:

So no wind, but he could run sub 1:45 someone drags him through. Very good performances from 2nd which I'm guessing was 1:46 and 3rd 1:47 (who looked quite young). Bergin though might fill out later and not run faster, though I hope not.

Second place was Ben Pattison; He ran 1.46.71, also 17 but he'll be 18 soon. Big talent himself; Moving back up to 800 this year and has taken his PB from 1.54 to 1.46. He ran 21.7 for 200 last summer too so one to keep an eye on.

Yes loads of talent in that race though they did have perfect conditions and great pacing (Max)

Benchmark times wrote:

Does anyone know how this compares to 17 year old Coe or Ovett?

Since he broke the U20 British record, I'm going to go out on a limb and say he is running faster than either of them at this age.