Jakob vs Mbappe over 400m

There have been great 400 meter coaches who've never run 48 themselves. It certainly helps to have personal experience, but not required to analyze these questions.

jakob would win this match race.he would probably run around 48.5,and mbappe would run around 50 seconds.

Yes, of course, very valid point. Agreed.

Just being realistic because there aren't a lot of great 400m coaches posting on Letsrun. Not sure how many have run sub 50 here either, but there seems to be a big misunderstanding of it.

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It was already tried, Cristiano Ronaldo vs a sprinter. Cristiano couldn't match that guy's time and as the distance grows, a runner like Jakob would make up for the lack of absolute top end speed where MBappe is probably superior.

The only area in which MBappe would beat Jakob is in acceleration

Pretty much every elite soccer / football / basketball player would beat Jakob over 100m. Most of them over 200m too. Some of them even in 400m.

I coached a player in a Premier League academy since his speed was considered lacking - within 6 months he was the fastest in the academy, yet still only just scraped the qualifying standard for the English Schools championships. The bar to be considered "fast" in football is very low - speed work is delivered by S&C coaches who predominantly focus on time in the gym.