Any Female marathoner since Paula set the record in 2003 is the correct answer here.
Any Female marathoner since Paula set the record in 2003 is the correct answer here.
Miruts Yifter is my first instinct here.
Double olympic gold 5k and 10k in 1980 olympics, bronze 10k 1972, and a overall strong competitive record, world cups and the like...
Rosie Ruiz.
Stefano Baldini. Olympic gold, European Championships Gold, and 2 WC bronze medals. No records to my knowledge.
146nchange wrote:Rosie Ruiz.
The topic is greatest runner not greatest fraud. After googleing her, it said that she still maintains she ran the whole race. What a total goof!! Anybody know her in South FL??
Hands down Carl Lewis--especially since he was so set on breaking it.. Then, along comes Mike Powell.. That had to hurt..
Allyson Felix, she could still take down one of the world records, so maybe not a good candidate. Still she dominates 200-400m, runs very fast 100m and lets face it she's hot.
Bernard Lagat I believe is the best option, I agree with others who said he was the first one they thought of. He won't likely get a WR, so I'll say him until Allyson Felix retires without a WR.
Eluid Kipchoge would be another good one.
Read the WHOLE THREAD...... Lewis set the 100 WR, 4x100 WR, and the indoor long jump.
Which WR is she going to take down? Felix will not set an individual world record. A doped Marion Jones couldn't do it. These 3 records are in the discussion when talking about records that will take the longest to break.10.49.... NO (10.93 isn't even close)21.34.... NO (21.81 is a little closer but no chance)47.60.... NO (49.7 was a repeat goal for Koch... jk)Unfortunately Koch and Flo Jo weren't caught....
Still could get the WR wrote:
Allyson Felix, she could still take down one of the world records, so maybe not a good candidate. Still she dominates 200-400m, runs very fast 100m and lets face it she's hot.
Bernard Lagat I believe is the best option, I agree with others who said he was the first one they thought of. He won't likely get a WR, so I'll say him until Allyson Felix retires without a WR.
Eluid Kipchoge would be another good one.
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The answer is obviously Tyson Gay. I know most of you here aren't too keen on sprints given the ridiculous amount of distance answers. Bernard Lagat? LMAO! For the person who said it's all about the amount of wins you are WRONG.
Tyson Gay came in competing professionally in a sport where the WR was 9.79 and has achieved a wind legal 9.69. He's also ran 19.58 (during his first race of the year back from a hammy injury) and sub 45 400 (the only sprinter to ever do so and run sub 10).
You just have to feel for the guy whose running absolutely stunning times and being nowhere close to the WR because of Bolt.
the best that i've personally seen was venuste niyongabo, who had the misfortune of running incredibly and consistently fast during the morcelli/el guerrouj era...
are you kidding me? wrote:
The answer is obviously Tyson Gay. I know most of you here aren't too keen on sprints given the ridiculous amount of distance answers. Bernard Lagat? LMAO! For the person who said it's all about the amount of wins you are WRONG.
Tyson Gay came in competing professionally in a sport where the WR was 9.79 and has achieved a wind legal 9.69. He's also ran 19.58 (during his first race of the year back from a hammy injury) and sub 45 400 (the only sprinter to ever do so and run sub 10).
You just have to feel for the guy whose running absolutely stunning times and being nowhere close to the WR because of Bolt.
This is the correct answer.
An objective way to narrow the field here is to look at runners who actually below an WR but had in broken by someone else in the same race.
Thus, Gay in the 100.
Sammy Korir in the marathon.
are you kidding me? wrote:
The answer is obviously Tyson Gay. I know most of you here aren't too keen on sprints given the ridiculous amount of distance answers. Bernard Lagat? LMAO! For the person who said it's all about the amount of wins you are WRONG.
Tyson Gay came in competing professionally in a sport where the WR was 9.79 and has achieved a wind legal 9.69. He's also ran 19.58 (during his first race of the year back from a hammy injury) and sub 45 400 (the only sprinter to ever do so and run sub 10).
You just have to feel for the guy whose running absolutely stunning times and being nowhere close to the WR because of Bolt.
Explain to me why Gay is the obvious answer and Lagat is a joke again? If not for El G Lagat would be more than 1 second faster in the 1500 than any other runner. He would be the world record holder, as well as an Olympic Gold medalist.
I don't see how his situation is different than Gay's.
And, by the way, the original question was not asking about the fastest runner never to set a world record, but the greatest. So yes, wins do matter.
the smartest letsrunner wrote:
are you kidding me? wrote:The answer is obviously Tyson Gay. I know most of you here aren't too keen on sprints given the ridiculous amount of distance answers. Bernard Lagat? LMAO! For the person who said it's all about the amount of wins you are WRONG.
Tyson Gay came in competing professionally in a sport where the WR was 9.79 and has achieved a wind legal 9.69. He's also ran 19.58 (during his first race of the year back from a hammy injury) and sub 45 400 (the only sprinter to ever do so and run sub 10).
You just have to feel for the guy whose running absolutely stunning times and being nowhere close to the WR because of Bolt.
This is the correct answer.
An objective way to narrow the field here is to look at runners who actually below an WR but had in broken by someone else in the same race.
Thus, Gay in the 100.
Sammy Korir in the marathon.
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how is tyson gay better than Derartu Tulu, who has:
2 olympic golds
1 olympic bronze
1 wc gold
1 wc silver
wins at London, Tokyo, NYC marathons
Gay has zero olympic medals. Zero.
????
maybe you are only considering the men.
SD-runr wrote:
STEVE SCOTT
just missed it a few times
I watched about thirty of his races and never saw him win one, so he's more in my "most inspirational" category. I like Lagat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEwMeRek8b4webby wrote:
SD-runr wrote:STEVE SCOTT
just missed it a few times
I watched about thirty of his races and never saw him win one, so he's more in my "most inspirational" category. I like Lagat.
Watch your 31st....
I am aware that he won some that I didn't see. You get my point, right, that I wouldn't pick a consistent also-ran over other guys who were world champions and undefeated for long periods of time?
136 sub 4:00 miles in his career, the most ever. The world record was broken 6 times from '79-'85, the meat of his career. Considering his competition (Cram, Ovett, Coe - all of whom have a WR), that's pretty lofty company to keep.
We're talking about the greatest runner, not the one with the most medals but no WR or the one with the longest undefeated streak (who are you referring to?). Those are certainly criteria. Consistency and relative standing to an athlete's peers have to be considered as well.
With that being said, why hasn't Gail Devers been mentioned? I don't think she set any WR's. Her medal count (Olympics, Worlds, World Indoors) was 12 gold, 5 silver.
Sp!kes wrote:
Carl Lewis is the greatest long jumper ever
Carl Lewis is the greatest long jumper ever*
(* tested positive)