What male today could win the most number of female gold medals?

I’d say any world record quality multi would win 8-12 medals in the speed/power events.

The throwing events would be the biggest adjustment since all the implements are half the weight of the men’s, so it would be more about timing then muscling the throw. The hammer would be the trickiest and most time consuming. The other 3 would be a matter of timing the finish correctly and its full send.

Personally, I would watch that! But I don't think they would be "crowd pleasing" for normal viewers. Beating up on ladies would not be a good bit of Olympic TV.

If we ran the top high school boys against the women's Olympic medalists, it would be a massive blow-out (except for the marathon) but who would really want to watch that? We already know what would happen...

Well, I don't know about the marathon. There are a lot of American marathoners who would love to run a 2:11...

surprised only one person mentioned holloway, as he is the first guy i thought of. Multiple 43.xx relay splits at florida, plus the LJ/HJ combo you mentioned (also worth noting he set that HJ PR at age 16!!)

i think this is a lot more interesting if decathletes are excluded. if we are putting money on it, prob 95%+ are taking a decathlete.

it's the individual specialists that would make it intriguing. i don't know how many they would win, but i'd be interested to see the following athletes try:

Rai Benjamin: in my opinion he's the most athletic athlete in all of athletics right now so would absolutely love to see him give an honest effort at this

Grant Holloway: i'm not going to debate myself when it comes to "most athletic athlete in athletics", but Holloway makes me question my assertion about Rai

Mondo: prob the most underrated athlete in athletics right now in terms of people thinking he's just really good at the pole vault when in fact he could absolutely be a decathlete medalist if he got obsessed with it

Matt Boling: mostly just want to see him do this so he'll realize "wait, all this time i'm actually a decathlete?"

Jakob: gun to his head, i think he wins the 400m - marathon. as a reminder he has a 12:48 5000 pb and one result of a 27:54 Road 10K from 5 years ago and has been able to handle volume since he was a teenager.

Eliud: impossible is nothing right, let's see what he can do

Given it's international competition I am quite confident the marathon would be an absolute blow out if high school boys competed against the best women in the world. The top 17-18 year old East Africans are about as good as the best male distance runners the US has to offer.

For reference, in most sports I believe international class women are about equivalent to international class 12-14 year old boys depending on the sport.

If we exclude decathletes or field events, my thought is 1500 runners. It’s about as short as you go before athletes cannot compete in long distance events.

400m hurdles is the hack to win jumps and many other events.

The Olympic record is 2:23 for women. That's only slightly faster than Grant Fisher's easy long run pace.

No, he most likely couldn't. If he could, he would be a 1:44 runner over the 800. He can't get near that.

there are people on this board that thought 2020 Kipchoge would have a tough time beating Mu in the 800 lol

I think Jakob along with most top 1500m runners can run a 47 high or 48 mid which would win the 400m.

The top decathlon guys is the right answer.

But Bryce Hoppel would easily win the 400, 800 and 1500. He would probably win the 200 and 5000 too. Maybe even the steeple, depending on technique.

Prime Brazier

No. Jakob has run 7:54 for 2 miles. If he could run say 48.25 he would have dipped under 3:26 by now. Mo Farah ran 3:28 and he probably could run 48.8 but he ran 8:03. When we discuss 400m, we are not discussing relay splits.

Because he doesn't train for it, genius.

I think Leon Marchand (the guy who broke Phelps' record in the 400 IM) could win EVERY individual women's swimming event in Paris. This includes getting through all the prelims and semifinals, so close to 40 races all told.

The guy is a monster; he was one of the best sprinters in the NCAA even though his best event takes 4 minutes.

But also, it's a very different sport.

i think the closest to a full sweep would be an 800 runner who would have a chance at winning the 100. I could totally see rudisha being able to run at least a 10.5 in his prime.. and I would also reckon hes got enough aerobic capacity to wreck house up until the 10k, which I think could be close. No chance in the marathon though.

here's the women's Paris schedule, excluding relays

Aug 2
10:15 - HJ Qualification
10:35 - 100m Preliminary Round (i think for the super slow folks?)
11:50 - 100m Round 1
18:10 - 5000m Round 1
18:15 - Triple Jump Qualification
18:55 - Discus Qualification Group A
19:45 - 800m Round 1
20:20 - Discus Qualification Group B

Aug 3
11:10 - 800m Repechage Round (wow, so no little "q's" in Rd 1, interesting)
19:50 - 100m Semis
20:20 - Triple Jump Final
21:20 - 100m Final

Aug 4
10:05 - Steeplechase Round 1
10:20 - Hammer Throw Group A
10:55 - 200m Round 1
11:45 - Hammer Throw Group B
12:35 - 400m Hurdles Round 1
19:50 - High Jump Final
20:40 - 800m Semis

Aug 5
10:40 - PV Qualification
10:50 - 400m Hurdles Repechage Round
11:55 - 400m Round 1
12:50 - 200m Repechage Round
20:30 - Discus Final
20:45 - 200m Semis
21:10 - 5000m Final
21:45 - 800m Final

Aug 6
10:05 - 1500m Round 1
11:15 - LJ Qualification
11:20 - 400m Repechage Round
20:00 - Hammer Throw Final
20:07 - 400m Hurdles Semis
21:10 - Steeplechase Final
21:40 - 200m Final

Aug 7
10:15 - 100m Hurdles Round 1
10:25 - Javelin Qualification Group A
11:50 - Javelin Qualification Group B
12:45 - 1500m Repechage Round
19:00 - Pole Vault Final
20:45 - 400m Semis

Aug 8
10:05 - Hep 100m Hurdles
10:25 - Shot Put Qualification
10:35 - 100m Hurdles Repechage Round
11:05 - Hep High Jump
19:35 - 1500m Semis
19:35 - Hep Shot Put
20:00 - Long Jump Final
20:55 - Hep 200m
21:25 - 400m Hurdles Final

Aug 9

10:05 - Hep Long Jump
11:20 - Hep Javelin Group A
12:05 - 100m Hurdles Semis
12:30 - Hep Javelin Group B
19:40 - Shot Put Final
20:00 - 400m Final
20:15 - Hep 800
20:55 - 10000 Final

Aug 10
19:40 - Javelin Throw Final
19:45 - 100m Hurdles Final
20:25 - 1500m Final

Aug 11
08:00 - Marathon

No Rudisha could not have run 10.5. I am not sure you understand this sort of thing.