Is Kejelcha or Mo a better runner?

Right now its Mo. If Kejelcha drops a 12:40 and a 26:2x and wins a few medals I'll give him the nod.

Mo consistently destroyed his competition consisting of several 12:4x guys. Kejelcha has run slower at 1500 and marginally faster at 5000/HM.

He needs to either dominate the track for an Olympic cycle or two....or he needs to pick up the occasional medal but show he is a vastly superior distance talent to Mo.

Yomif is too gangly, can't change gears quickly enough, can't handle traffic, can't handle getting bumped. He's very/going to be very effective in individual TT situations, especially on bouncy indoor tracks. Some of this might be addressed if he puts on another kg or so, but that would need to be weighed against the theoretically slowdown that would cause.

He's fast, sure, but in a diesel way, he takes a moment or two to wind up. By then, the guy he's trying to get around is ahead, or the guy next to him now has an edge.

Like I said above, though, put five pounds on him, realize the 3000 is most of what we'll all be running some, and have him pull a Cheptegei himself, and that might work.

Update:

Kejelcha

1500m: 3:31.58i (Feb 2019) -

Mile: 3:47.01 (Mar 2019) + at 21 y.o.

3000m: 7:28.0 (Aug 18, 2018) +

5000m: 12:46.7 (Aug 31, 2018) +

10000m: 26:49 (Oct 2019) -

HM: 59:06 (Oct 2019) +

Mo

1500m: 3:28.8 * (Monaco) (2013)

Mile: 3:56.4 (2005) at 22 y.o.

3000m: 7:32.6 (2016)

5000m: 12:53.1 * (Monaco) (2011)

10,000m: 26:46 (2011)

HM: 59:32 (2015) - aided 59:07 (2019)

Kejelcha did not have a good summer, but he had a good year. He should be faster than Mo in all events, excluding the 1500m by next year (assuming that loss of his coach will not affect him too much).

I remember this funny "debate". Kejelcha not getting much closer to Farah's resume these days.

Where is Kejelcha these days?

doot doot wrote:

better = faster wrote:

Kejelcha is better and it isn't close.

It’s just a matter of time.

Kejelcha *may* not rack up as many WC/Oly medals as Mo, but Mo’s are pretty trivial given the “competition” at 5/10k.

If last summer’s Ethiopian mega time trial is any indication of things to come then the post-Mo era of track is about to be exciting again.

Lolol.

streezer wrote:

streezer wrote:

Hahahaha. Mo regularly faced 12:4x and 3:31 (3:48 equivalent) guys like Kejelcha when he was in his prime. And he beat them time and again.

Ten. Global. Golds.

Lol "may not".

Bump for another year's championship opportunity and Kejelcha coming away with no hardware.

lol

Another bump after Kejelcha went through another global championship without bringing home any medals. Maybe people will realize how silly this talk was.

This thread was stupid from the start and should have ended on the first page. Why compare an all-time great with someone much younger and then only list PBs? Kejelcha is faster than Mo but he’s never going to be greater.

Bump.

lol. at this point in time it is fair to ask who is better between Yomif and MO Ahmed.

the disrespect for mo farah is off the charts.

The last week was perfect in displaying why Mo was the better runner. Showed up when it mattered not afraid on the big stage and then turning around and running fast in a paced, non-championship DL.

Kejelcha

Chokes

Again

The “Mills vs Farah” thread reminded me of this equally dumb thread premise.

Well, this was made in 2019 before Kejelcha went 0-fer in 4 straight worlds/olympics despite being a medal favorite in all 4 (he did get a creditable 10K silver in 2019). Kejelcha has shown he is one of the greatest ever time-trialers, but he unfortunately doesn't know how to manage the last 800 of a race, which was Mo's superpower. This thread is far more reasonable than the Mills one.

Yes

Bump

still worse but i’m glad he got another silver in the 10k at worlds. time wise he is better but it’s also a different era with stronger runners and i would say dominating your era is what counts, not so much the times.