Realism wrote:
Hardloper wrote:Sorry, completely true. You don't know much about athletics if you think they'd be even in the low 11's.
Wrong. Rudisha has run 45.mid for 400, any 1:43 800 guy can no doubt break 47 in peak form
You're saying that Rudishas 45.5 was basically his 100m dash capability 4 times in a row? what a joke.
anybody who can break 46-47 for 400 can no doubt go well under 11 for a 100.
Hardloper is getting schooled here.
Half-milers would have the best shot, perhaps Symmonds or Rudisha. Rupp could have a shot with a weak 100 and 200.
Brandon Johnson
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Hardloper wrote:
Yes wrote:Also no 400 runner/400 hurdler would have a chance in the 2 mile.
They would win it in more states than an 800 guy would win the 100/200. If Michael Johnson was capable of the 3-mile tempo runs someone posted in a thread, he could definitely do it.
The guy that posted it later said it was 100% troll.
yeah i definitely agree that an 800 guy would have the best chance, the 800 guys i race with have the biggest range. and the original post asked if they could be trained to race all the events, i have no doubt that if rudisha or symmonds trained for sprints and also the 3000/3200 they would do it easily.
Wariner, if he trained for it
Edwin Moses would have had a decent shot at it depending on the state.
Oh Yeah
What time do they run the 100m in?
usain rupp
Is there any adult who could win all of the events at a high school state championship meet? Consider the marks of the greatest all-around athletic performance of all time: Joe Detmer's icosathlon (double decathlon) world record in Lynchburg, Virginia:
http://www.icosathlon.net/results/wc2010.txt
Is there any high school state championship where those marks all win? It'd have to be awfully weak for 12.27 to win the shot put, for instance, or for the distance marks to stand up.
Detmer is a very good, national-class, 8000+ point decathlete with decent endurance. Putting all those events together into a day or two makes it awfully tough on anyone to compete with even HS-ers who are doing a single event.
Well, makes theoretical sense because this is close to midway between the extremes (100m-3200m). For instance,it would take enormous effort for sprinters to run a decent 1500m upwards, and likewise, it would be almost impossible to 1500m+ runners to win 100m anywhere. I also agree that heptathlon guys are probably also a good bet.
I suspect Rupp might have his hands full in the 400m,
Maybe Curtis Beach
Just for old times sake, Spike Paranya (Karl's father) won the long jump and the half at the state meet, and broke the state cross country course record in Massachusetts in 1956. He also won 220 races regularly. In college he was 2-time IC4A mile champ and post college excelled in distances up to 5 mile road races. That combination of sprinting, long jump and long distance has hardly been excelled until Curtis Beach.
Humanly Possible? wrote:
They would probably have to be capable of something like 10.7-8 for the 100, all the way up to 9:10 or so for the 3200. Right now, Rupp would easily win everything from the 400 up, but could he (or anyone else) be trained to win all of the events on the same day?
Any professional 800m runner could do it.
Bill Cosby
Rupp could do it if his training changed a bit. He has a lot of slack in the distance events, so he would just need some speed.
400/800 guys are the obvious choice.
did not bother reading all posts. sorry if mentioned already.
You did not ask live or dead....
Jim Thorpe gets my vote.
Weird that nobody has considered the girls side. Would any female elite be able to hit 12.0 and 9:50 (3k)?
Nick Symmonds Senior year of high school he won 800, 1600, 3200 and 4 x400 member.. He is significantly faster now. PR of 47 400m. I am sure he could easily run low 11 in 100. Take fastest 800 runner of all time, Rudisha, I would guess he has a pretty darn good chance at it. with 45 400m speed.