Because 62:52 is still pro (male) level. When an American man runs 62:xx at Nationals even when he is top tier it seems plausible when he bombs. I don't see this with most other records.
Before the Boston 2:04:58 Ryan Hall duelled with Mo Trafeh in Houston in 62:low/mid. That run by Gidey is beyond all other records.
It has to be the marathon. If you were an American man running 2:14 in 2022, you would be a top-25 guy in the nation. I don't think any other equivalent result would net you such a high placing.
Or we could think of the question this way, if you were the coach of an average DI college track team, do you think you would beat all of the women's track records over 20 years of coaching? Yes, of course. But which ones would your athletes rarely beat?
I went to a small DIII school and we had guys who were faster in about half the events. I know alumni who went on to break all these times except the 400H.
That said, I think it would be hardest to find dudes who can run 50.68 in the 400H. That sounds so insane. Sydney is amazing.
Because 62:52 is still pro (male) level. When an American man runs 62:xx at Nationals even when he is top tier it seems plausible when he bombs. I don't see this with most other records.
Before the Boston 2:04:58 Ryan Hall duelled with Mo Trafeh in Houston in 62:low/mid. That run by Gidey is beyond all other records.
2:14 is not as good as 62:52, let's be honest.
I reckon it's pretty much on par.
My suspicion is that for every guy that's run within 20 seconds of that half marathon time, of those that have attempted a marathon, less than half have run faster than 2:14:04.
I was wondering what womens wr would be hardest for a guy to beat.
probably gideys half marathon
or maybe Sydney’s 400 hurdles
For the average poster, I would say FloJo's 10.49, 21.34 and Koch's 47.60 are pretty beyond difficult. An underrated mention might be Yulimar Rojas' triple jump. People truly do not understand how absurd a 51 foot triple jump is. One of the greatest athletes I have ever known is a 16m+ triple jumper. He is 6' 2 and absolutely shredded, D1 athlete with multiple school records. Rojas could easily be his training partner and potentially snag a win against him on a given day.
I don’t know…high school boys beat those sprint times every year.
As threads like this show, there's something pretty desperate about guys needing to compare themselves athletically with women.
I don't think this is correct. From my perspective, it is more about respecting how insane some of these women's records are. If any man on this thread took medication to drop his T to zero, boosted on estrogen, and then tried to compete, it would be a total fiasco.
Yet somehow these women put up insanely good times. I am rather impressed by the women's records, to be honest. If I had achieved these times, I would over the moon! 2:14 marathon, 1:04 Half, sub-30km, 14:20km, those kind of times are waaay faster than my PRs. So I say, chapeau, ladies!
Since you didn't specify the sport, I'd bet on ultra long-distance swimming, which some overall WR's are held by women. Also the Appalachian Trail FKT was held by a woman until 2015.
But I'd compare US or world rankings. I thought that there might be more people running 2:14:00 than 62:50 but it might be the other way round :-)
According to the World Athletics scoring tables, the longer the event the more points a women's world record would get on the men's points table (Ok, I only compared 4 events: 800m, half marathon, marathon, 100k).
For those supporting the women's 800m - the women's 800m world record scores the lowest on the men's table when compared to standard track events. According to the scoring tables the hardest in order would be:
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