You’re only showing the winner. This doesn’t show geographical variation of the top performers
A breakdown of all medals won in the men's 800m since the World Championships started in 1983 (I'm counting Wilson Kipketer and Yusuf Saad Kamel as Kenyan).
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If this isn't dominance, then I don't know what is:
You have the WR, what could you ask more? But I think these kind of dominations is sort of "traditions" first initiated by some big talents. I imagine KipKeino and the other Kenyan that was in the 70s initiated the 800m Kenyan tradition.
Jessy Owens initiated the sprint tradition in USA.
Nadia Comaneci initiated the tradition of Gymnastic in Roumany.
Aouita initiated the tradition of 1500m in North Africa.
etc..
I'm not removing any natural predisposition that comforted this tendency over the years.
And I'm really really fair if I add this:
To Kenya in the 800m we can add a lot of others East African countries surrounding Kenya (Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania and even South Africa have great potentials, the conditions right now didn't favor)
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Jakob is a rare and phenomenal talent, but I doubt if there are not quite a few more Jakobs out there in Europe if they had somebody like Gjert as a father pushing them into distance running at an early age. In fact, there are several 'next Jakobs' in Scandinavia alone emerging, both male and female.
You are whining (meskin = the poor). What do you think of these others "Jacob" that stole everything before 1964?
This is the complete list of men's medalists in athletics at the Summer Olympics. It does not include the medalists from the Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games – these are no longer regarded as an official part of the O...
Jakob won that at a canter. Despite the heat, despite the fact he had ran 3 rounds of the 1500m, including a sub 3:30 just 5 days ago, despite needing to grab a water, despite hardly ever running the 5000m - he absolutely destroyed the best East African distance runners in the world over 5000m.
One Norwegian family decides to switch from the familiar route of xcountry skiing, and go into distance running, and all become elite, with the youngest (so far) dominating.
Jakob is a rare and phenomenal talent, but I doubt if there are not quite a few more Jakobs out there in Europe if they had somebody like Gjert as a father pushing them into distance running at an early age. In fact, there are several 'next Jakobs' in Scandinavia alone emerging, both male and female.
When I started posting here 5 years ago, there had only ever been one non-East African who had ever won a DL 1500m, let alone a 5000m. Few believed there would ever be a European men's 1500m champ again, let alone in a distance event. Of course, it's a large part due to better testing finally being introduced to East Africa, which has not only degraded the performances of East Africans, but it's spurred on the rest of the world, who now can believe they are competing on a more level playing field.
The myth is over.
And Max would have won the 800m, and Keely was impeded by Mu.
And let's give Jake Wightman the 100% credit he deserves for beating Jakob, who unlike as some were saying the other day, is clearly at his very best here.
Lol. Racist, old, worn-out idiot. You are yet to cry enough.