Men's 5000 Official Thread

joho wrote:

cpr wrote:

lol! sub18?

Last place in the second heat was 18:xx.

He probably ran that off no mileage. Dude looked crazy relaxed

Jeff Wigand wrote:

rippev wrote:

seriously.. wow this baffles me.

Easy to say on this side of the stands.

i was in the first race and got in on time so i was on the other side fool!

All in all, not a bad showing for Bumbalough, especially after reading that interview on the kimbia.net home page. It sounds like he had tapered down his training some and was moving into other things and then was suddenly thrust into it again. Honestly, 9th place in his heat given all that ain't too bad. Wish he'd made a push to keep the pace honest and get in on time, though. Still, at least he didn't get lapped while running way off his PB like his teammate did in the 10k.

Barakus Obama wrote:

Who is that 16:xx jogger????

And why IAAF put these clowns like the fat 100m Samoan "runner"?

The IAAF allows every member to send at least one man and one woman in any event without qualification standards, except in the steeplechase, 10000m, or multis. They do this, both because the tiny federations that don't have anybody that can make a B standard represent a significant voting block and the IAAF is wise to allow them a minimum of representation, and because it offers an opportunity to develop the sport in places where it has no tradition. You have to start somewhere.

The Samoan in question was to enter the shot put, but wasn't allowed for some reason, and so he was entered in the 100m instead.

Tropical Storm Talas is headed for Daegu. Could make the final interesting on Sunday.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp201115_5day.html

Could someone please list all of the qualifiers from the two heats - I can't seem to get the IAAF website to give me full results atm... Thanks

help - qualifiers? wrote:

Could someone please list all of the qualifiers from the two heats - I can't seem to get the IAAF website to give me full results atm... Thanks

Yes. I remember another fat Samoan 100m 14.xx" runner called Trevor Misapeka that was about to enter in the shot put..., seems like they dont learn the lesson.

But a 16k jogger in 5000m? in same heat than guys like Merga or Farah? Why they dont put this runner in the 100m preliminary round?

Whith that kind of speed for 5k (sub 17 minutes)He maybe could run sub 13 second in the 100m...waaay better than Sogelau Tuvalu.

PhatTongue wrote:

Tropical Storm Talas is headed for Daegu. Could make the final interesting on Sunday.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp201115_5day.html

That chart shows it hitting Sakhalin Island on Sunday.

He set a PB.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

it offers an opportunity to develop the sport in places where it has no tradition. You have to start somewhere.

How does an embarassing one-off performance in the World Champs help develop the sport?

You do have to start somewhere, but the World Championships seems like an odd place to do so.

Linkage123214234 wrote:Wow...all of the time qualifiers come from the 1st heat. Retarded running from the 2nd heat runners. No one to blame but themselves.

No, they didn't. Three time qualifiers from the first heat, two from the second -- it can't be any more even than that. The best/fittest runners qualified.

stillsweating1 wrote:i was in the first race and got in on time so i was on the other side fool!

Awesome! Great to see Bilisumi Shugi, the pride of Bahrain, posting on Letsrun! Or is Daniele Meucci? Or Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah?

What kind of development you see in Countries like Saint Kitts and Nevis/Botswana/Grenada? And they got not only finalists, but medals.

Heat 1:

1 1093 Bernard Lagat USA 13:33.90 Q

2 658 Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa KEN 13:34.46 Q

3 372 Dejen Gebremeskel ETH 13:34.48 Q

4 655 Isiah Kiplangat Koech KEN 13:34.54 Q

5 1120 Galen Rupp USA 13:34.91 Q

6 709 Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah KSA 13:35.47 q

7 208 Bilisuma Shugi BRN 13:35.86 q

8 574 Daniele Meucci ITA 13:39.90 q

9 114 Javier Carriqueo ARG 13:47.51

10 125 Collis Birmingham AUS 13:47.88

11 302 Mumin Gala DJI 13:48.19

12 861 Rui Silva POR 13:50.16

13 137 Craig Mottram AUS 13:56.60

14 1032 Moses Kibet UGA 14:05.15

15 319 Goitom Kifle ERI 14:06.42

16 953 Abdishakur Nageye Abdulle SOM 15:13.64 (PB)

108 Mounir Miout ALG DNF

326 Francisco Javier Alves ESP DNF

365 Kenenisa Bekele ETH DNS

805 Adrian Blincoe NZL DNS

Heat 2:

1 377 Imane Merga ETH 13:37.96 Q

2 439 Mohamed Farah GBR 13:38.03 Q

3 374 Abera Kuma ETH 13:38.41 Q

4 644 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 13:39.02 Q

5 554 Alistair Ian Cragg IRL 13:39.36 Q

6 322 Amanuel Mesel ERI 13:39.97 q

7 332 Jesús España ESP 13:40.38 q

8 1034 Abraham Kiplimo UGA 13:44.09

9 1066 Andrew Bumbalough USA 13:44.38

10 883 Elroy Gelant RSA 13:48.33

11 144 Ben St.Lawrence AUS 13:51.64

12 809 Jake Robertson NZL 13:53.57

13 1038 Geofrey Kusuro UGA 13:54.58

14 207 Dejene Regassa BRN 13:56.83

15 936 Sylvain Rukundo RWA 13:58.92

16 102 Rabah Aboud ALG 14:00.34

17 169 Gérard Gahungu BDI 14:09.15 (PB)

18 637 Kazuya Watanabe JPN 14:20.62

19 670 Seung-Ho Baek KOR 15:01.37

20 427 Christian Ngningba GAB 18:44.06 (PB)

711 Abdullah Abdulaziz Aljoud KSA DNF

Barakus Obama wrote:

What kind of development you see in Countries like Saint Kitts and Nevis/Botswana/Grenada? And they got not only finalists, but medals.

What does this have to do with my post?

Bumbi 4 seconds away. Great effort. If only they'd pushed a little bit more.

I agree with you in reply to jeff

Alistair...way to go. Woo pig sooie.

Post-race interviews with 5000m Americans, Cragg, and Jake Robertson here

http://www.youtube.com/user/letsrundotcom#g/u

My apologies in advance, I think the Rupp audio isn't great but let us know as we tried a different camera.