This is dumb, I know 13' PVs that ran 48.x splits. Syd is going to be cooked.
sure is. Gary Honey, a long jumper (2nd 1984 OG), ran 46.9 for 400m.
Gary was indeed a quick sprinter with a hand timed best of 10.4 in 1985 but what surprised many people was that he could run a very good 400 metres. Although he did not like the event, he achieved a personal best of 46.9.
Yup agreed. Way more interesting to see guy vs guy or woman vs woman but in events that they don't normally do. Guy vs a woman seems more about a guy showing how much more physically capable men are than women...yeah everyone knows that already.
Besides, SML would smoke Mondo in a 400. As a pole vaulter you gotta have explosive sprinting power coming down the runway and launching off on the jump, that translates well to a 100m, but nothing longer. I bet Mondo's 200 would be way worse than his 100 and his 400 would be way worse than his 200. If he spent a few months training for 400 it might be different, but just off pole vault training I'd give him something right around 50.0, so SML probably beat him by close to 2 seconds.
If he wants more interesting exhibition races like this he should be challenging long/triple jumpers to a 100, or mid-d runners to a 200.
This is dumb, I know 13' PVs that ran 48.x splits. Syd is going to be cooked.
Your 13' pole vaulter dudes have nothing to do with this.
There are 16' women pole vaulters! By your logic Yelena Isinbayeva would cook Sydney.
Plus your 48.X splitting pole vaulters would definitely lose to Sydney who runs 47.X splits.
The real question is how fast Mondo is. Of course there are male pole vaulters faster than Sydney over 400m it doesn't say anything about one man or woman.
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Exactly, Bol is known for folding under pressure when racing with Sydney.
Eh, I don’t think that’s really fair. The only time they’ve raced when we thought their fitness might be comparable was Paris, and if anything, Femke seemed to go out too hard with Syd instead of running her own race, shooting for gold and costing herself silver in the process. No one’s as devastated to lose as she was if they didn’t think they had a good chance to win, so I don’t think SML is some mental hurdle (pun intended) to Femke, she’s just always been a bit beyond her in form.
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This is dumb, I know 13' PVs that ran 48.x splits. Syd is going to be cooked.
Your 13' pole vaulter dudes have nothing to do with this.
There are 16' women pole vaulters! By your logic Yelena Isinbayeva would cook Sydney.
Plus your 48.X splitting pole vaulters would definitely lose to Sydney who runs 47.X splits.
The real question is how fast Mondo is. Of course there are male pole vaulters faster than Sydney over 400m it doesn't say anything about one man or woman.
Mondo should run a 400m in a B race against men so we can compare his time to decathletes, and SML should run one against women at a DL meet.
Here's an interesting 400m race scenario. Quincy Hall gets a 75-100m head start, but has to run backwards, Warhol runs 400m hurdles in his lane but has to wear a dress since he bailed on wearing the Swedish kit in zurich after losing to Mondo, and the rest run 400m (Sydney, Jacob, Hocker, Kerr, Holloway, Crowser, Biden, Trump). I'd pay to see that race.
I would rather Mondo sit this one out and Instead Have Mclaughlin, Femke, Whittaker, Paulino, Naser, The Polish Girl who ran under 49 3 times last year, Aaliyah Butler (My personal Favorite). Alexis Holmes, Jermaesha Ford in an attempt at Marita Koch's 47.60 Record set in 1985 Before Most if not all of the Girls Mentioned were born.
Yup agreed. Way more interesting to see guy vs guy or woman vs woman but in events that they don't normally do. Guy vs a woman seems more about a guy showing how much more physically capable men are than women...yeah everyone knows that already.
Besides, SML would smoke Mondo in a 400. As a pole vaulter you gotta have explosive sprinting power coming down the runway and launching off on the jump, that translates well to a 100m, but nothing longer. I bet Mondo's 200 would be way worse than his 100 and his 400 would be way worse than his 200. If he spent a few months training for 400 it might be different, but just off pole vault training I'd give him something right around 50.0, so SML probably beat him by close to 2 seconds.
If he wants more interesting exhibition races like this he should be challenging long/triple jumpers to a 100, or mid-d runners to a 200.
Hahahah I don't know who would win, but if you don't think mondo could break 50 that's nuts
I find it hard to believe Mondo couldn't go 47.5. Look at Christian Taylor, he was a 45.0 400m runner despite being a triple jumper. 47 isn't elite for pro men but is still very good.
A 13 foot pole vaulter could be a distance runner for all anybody knows. It's just not that athletic of a feat. Any above average athlete with good coordination, timing, and coaching can vault 13. It really gives zero indication of what an explosive 20 foot vaulter is capable of. That 13 foot vaulter is also most likely a high school vaulter who is participating in another 1 or 2 events once or twice every week.
I also think Mondo can break 48, but the 13 foot vaulter has nothing to do with that.