I agree. Mondo is faster in the 100 than West and he is much thinner so why would people think that he wouldn't be faster in 400 amd 1500 than West? West is terrible at PV also which says his strength to weight ratio is much worse than Mondo. West has 24'6" LJ and 6'4" HJ again at higher weight with less speed than Mondo. I think Mondo would hit 25 and 6'6" without much training. He woukd run 47 with ease.
What could Mondo Duplantis score in a decathlon?
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I'd be much more interested to see Grant Holloway try one again, I genuinely think if he trained for it he'd at least medal
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Mondo only weighs 7 pounds less than World Record holder Kevin Mayer.
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It is hard to speculate how he would do in the middle distance events but at 5'11 and being the best pole vaulter in the world, I would expect him to have no problem clearing 6 or even 6'2 in the high jump with limited training.
I was 5'8 to 5'9 when I competed in the High Jump in high school and had no problem getting over 5'10 and there were lots of folks in the 5'9 range who cleared 6. The Women's World Record holder is 5'11 and jumped 6'8 (2.09m)20 -
Would do a great PV and pretty much suck at everything else. If he hasn't shown any interest before in the other 9 events, it's kind of late to start.
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He's shown he can run 10.6 or even faster so I don't think the only thing he's going to be good at is PV.
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It would be interesting to see. I would also like to see Boling try a decathlon.
I think neither of them would embarrass themselves.
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People saying Mondo would HJ 6'-6'5" are nuts. I'd put him at 6'8"+. He's a technician, and that's one event that would reward his attention to detail.
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Forget mondo. Chris Nilsen is a 2.00 meter high jumper, and is big dude. Would have impressive throws almost instantly.
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18rabbit wrote:
It is hard to speculate how he would do in the middle distance events but at 5'11 and being the best pole vaulter in the world, I would expect him to have no problem clearing 6 or even 6'2 in the high jump with limited training.
I was 5'8 to 5'9 when I competed in the High Jump in high school and had no problem getting over 5'10 and there were lots of folks in the 5'9 range who cleared 6. The Women's World Record holder is 5'11 and jumped 6'8 (2.09m)
Senior year at high school while training for the mile and 880, I cleared 6' in the high jump in practice just for fun (never practiced it). Another miler on our team also cleared it doing the roll! I did the flop. Mondo could easily clear 6' with zero practice.
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Bio Duder wrote:
Forget mondo. Chris Nilsen is a 2.00 meter high jumper, and is big dude. Would have impressive throws almost instantly.
Good point.
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Most of the people here have no concept of these events. Did any of you compete in college? Did you talk and watch and get to know the teammates that did events other than your own? His ability to pole vault that high means he has a lot of strength. I would bet he could hj 6'6" 6'8" right now. I was a 48/1:51 400/800 guy in college and I could jump 6 in the hj. This guy is world's better than me in explosive talent. He has lj and 10.5 100 ability. He'll be fine for a 49 (maybe 50 end of day 1 fatigue) 400. 110h is the biggest variable. Shot put, discuss, javelin would take some quick training but he would be fine. Also if he's training for decath he will be strength training for that more too. 1500 I don't see him going under 4:40. Pv guys do not train distance and it's an entirely different animal. I would be impressed he breaks 5. Give him a few months and I'm sure 4:40 is possible.
My guess is tomorrow he does 7300. In 1 month he does 7800. In 6 months 8300. Give him a year and he's going for an oly medal
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Forget the decathlon, he says (in jest I guess) he plans to join his brother on the Swedish national baseball team (add eye-hand coordination to the list):
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Bo knows throws wrote:
Lol not ending shjt. He has long arms/levers, and is explosive & coordinated, so would do just fine in the jav and disc.
I seriously doubt he would be on the level with legit decathletes in the throws, he weighs how much?
Ziemek did just 48 meters in the Discus and still got Bronze. The throws are usually the comparatibly weakest events of decathloners.
It's like swimming for thriathloners I guess, they can't build enough lead to ever win it there, but the can loose it there on a bad day.
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