Who wins in a 500 meter, Jakob Ingebrigtsen or Noah Lyles?

It was facetious. But that is beyond you.

The very existence of this thread is evidence for the sheer ignorance of LetsRunnners on sprinting.

Au contraire, my mentally challenged friend. It was totally predictable. Right out of your mouldy playbook.

I like it- but make it a 600m and I think that’s better race. 500m is run in college by sprinters- he would crush Jakob at 500m. At 600m he would kick Jakob down and that would be the TRUE PERFECT RACE OF THE CENTURY AND A NEW 600M WORLDRECORD!!

Don’t forget I said it first! Maybe not I didn’t read the thread yet

Jesus someone said the exact thing I thought and I didn’t even read that far.
like - obviously the 600m race is a true distance runners dream to see because we can run them- who came up with 500m? What a bum 500m really?

Ok I’ll say it official- Lyles for marketing and potential should go for the 600m WORLD RECORD! He could get it. Do the math- he would just need to train a year or 2 for it and boom 600m WORLD RECORD! Perfect for his branding since he’s trying to do everything he can to be great in multiple races etc.

lyles if you read this- think about it- we love your sprinting bht we need more charisma and creativity and word records!
ill even say he’s built for the 600m- that’s his real race!

Sprinters and jumpers are freak athletes. Anything under 90 seconds heavily leans toward Lyles in this match up. I'd even consider taking Lyles at 800m if he got to spend a few months training for it but this would be very close. Obviously anything over that and Jakob's win gap increases exponentially!

Make it 650m

No. Just no. No way in hell Lyles has a shot at an 800, even with a year training. At 500 he would. 500/600 would be exciting.

Your response was predictable. You didn't get it.

I think to make it interesting Lyles should have to run backwards.

The 500m is an all-out sprint nothing mid-distance about the event. I was a 4:04 miler but could run 1:03 for a 500m. I also could run 48 low for an open 400m. I liked running the 10,000m and ran 29:05 but was probably actually an 800m runner but rarely ran the event but ironically it was the only event I actually qualified for the US Championships in and did that off of a 1,000m conversion. If I had focused on the 800m no doubt I would have been a 1:44-1:45 guy. With this being said Noah would annihilate Jakob in a 500m and I would probably bet on him in a 600yd which is rarely run. The 600m distance is on the fence but if Noah trained for it he wins in a 600m hands down.

Yes, you are mentally challenged.

Moran

Not by you.

No contest Lyles win even 600m

High schoolers do this every year. Mile runners who run close to 4 flat come out and run 48. 47 on relays. And they are almost always training for 5ks in the fall. So a full time pro 5k-mile type can hit this no problem. People greatly underestimate his speed which was on display when he won the 5k at Olympics

Back when Bolt and Farah were seriously considering racing each other at an intermediate distance, consensus was that 550-600m was about right for a fair race. 500m is too short for Jakob.

Armstronglivs answering one of his sock-puppets. Hilarious!

He’s been in extremis ever since the Aussies and Kiwis collapsed in Paris along with Kerr losing to the awesome Cole Hocker.