Guy wouldn’t even win ncaa’s. But wins some cross country race across the water and is all of a sudden all over running media. Looks like my desk in middle school by the end of school year with all that crap drawn on his arms and legs. Get over the guy already
Seeing this years later after being top 20 in all events from 1500m-5000m just makes my tummy tickle
3:28.32 1500 (after rounds, likely can go 3:26 high right now)
3:46.46 Mile
4:50.01 2000m (Solo effort)
7:24.00 3000m (En route to Two Mile World record and even went sub-28 after this split)
7:54.10 Two Miles (GOATed)
12:48.45 5000m (Sit and Kick type race against a stacked field, likely in low 12:40s fitness)
Point is, when I was a High Schooler watching him I did not expect him to be this great. Thought he was gonna be a 3:29 1500 guy and burn out (Because it's rare for prodigies to ascend to greatness like he has 5-6 years later) Boy was I wrong......
a year and 3 months later and he has improved on all those marks other than the 5k. The OP of this thread goes home devastated!
Cole Hocker would’ve beaten him last summer if he wasn’t coming off of winning ncaas. Hocker had a much harder season having to peak for nationals then turn around for the trials and then the games. Hocker beats Jacob 9 Times out of 1 any distance
There's no limit on what Cole Hocker can run in the 1500m. But you don't make predictions based on speculative potential. He ran 3:31 this year, which was awesome. If he runs 3:30 next year, that would put him among the best Americans ever. To run 3:29 would bring him into the top 3 of Americans, with Maree, a South African except for a few years as a naturalized American so he could compete during the Apartheid exclusion of South African athletes from international competition, and Lagat, who at the time of his 3:27 was still a Kenyan citizen. To run 3:27, while of course possible, next year, is not likely. We hope it happens. It would be fantastic to see an American at the top of the world. But a sounder prediction would put him at 3:29, and that in itself would be a fantastic result.
Who’s first to a global medal, Hocker or Fisher? If Chelimo can pull it off, why can’t Fisher? Fisher’s 10K in Tokyo was every bit as impressive as Hocker’s in the 1500, probably more so. Grant Fisher, not Mantz or Hocker or Colin Sahlman:-) is the true future of US men’s distance running.
They both got it at the same games, but Hocker has way more left in him than Fisher does.
Also Kerr has been in the AIU testing pool for a while now,Hocker has only just entered so expect to see his "strange" improvement stop.
Well, now Hocker has moved up to the 5k, and he certainly has figured out how to beat Josh Kerr.
I would say Kerr and Hocker are pretty even head to head over the last 12 months, but Kerr would definitely have the advantage. They haven't raced 5K, so I'm not sure why you being that up.
I remember Kerr smoking Hocker at GST and making a WC Final.
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