Zurich Weltklasse DL Final Day 2 Live Thread - TV 1-4pm eastern on Peacock

I’d say

1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen
2. Jake Wightman
3. Timothy Cheruiyot
4. Abel Kipsang
5. Oliver Hoare
6. Josh Kerr
7. Stewart McSweyn
8. Mohamed Katir
9. Mario Garcia
10. Jake Heyward

I feel good about my 1-5 and my 9-10. 6-8 is tricky. These ten happen to be the ten fastest in the world this season by SB.

He ran 1:43.26 last year, was 3rd at the World Championships and has won Diamond League races before. But yeah, he ran well and I was hoping he’d hold off Korir.

Paulino at least has some feminine cheekbones but Colino (sp?) out here looking like a whole Transformer.

First time maybe to see a Swedish at the top of the world:

but this one has his father American too et he is well gone for the title of Athlete of the year.

Normally these technical specialties should be classified alone as they are barely related to running.

I remember the time of Aouita, the Russian Sergey Bubka getting 19 world records, each improving his record by 1 cm.

Apparently, one can win 1500 titles by front running.

Knighton is still a boy, he is still very young. An off season in the weight room and a nutritionist will make a world of difference next year.

Anybody know why there is no DL stop in Germany? Not even Berlin, which had a pretty decent meet a few days ago?

I don't think Paulino seems DSD. Cofil on the other hand ...

Wightman ran a tactically poor race. He shot his load way too early. He made a strong move around the bell to bridge the gap to Tual, which was totally unnecessary as Tual was never a threat. Then he made that move between 500 and 600. That left him with little for the home straight. If he got to run that again, he wouldn't make that move at 400.

He'll still be really happy with his DL season. Three wins, a third, and third in the final is great going

Wightman is not the runner that can replicate times lower than 1:44. He can do that in some exceptional conditions.

1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Big gap

2. Jake Wightman, Timothy Cheruiyot, Abel Kipsang, Oliver Hoare,
Stewart McSweyn

3. Josh Kerr, Mario Garcia, Jake Heyward

Unknown outsider:
Mohamed Katir who take place somewhere in the big gap.

I personally wouldn't judge it too harshly. It's not like he ran some crazy split to get to Tual. Throughout the race, he ran a manageable amount extra distance. He didn't manage his energy perfectly as you correctly point out which led to the 14.1 last 100. But it was a trickier race going out slower than Brussels (51.1 for him vs. 50.3) and a much more complicated second lap as a result. He had a lot to respond to and sure in retrospect he should've been more patient from 500-600. But Arop threw a haymaker and Kinyamal was challenging and both guys were legit threats to win. The top 2 were too good on the day, so really I wouldn't beat him up too much over running his second fast time ever when you could argue maybe he could've run 1:43.8-1:44.0 if he'd waited for the final 150 as opposed to duking it out up front.

Knighton ran 19.49 without that added muscle. Obviously, he peaked early and he and his coaches will need to work on gradually building him up during the season to a high sustained peak like Lyles has been able to achieve. But his 19.49 proved that he doesn't need to bulk up to be among the best ever. Simple physical maturation should do that.

I don't rank Wightman second in the world in the 1500m simply because he had only one major win and was third at Commonwealth before turning solely to the 800m the rest of the season. Timothy Cheruiyot and Ollie Hoare are the contenders for 2nd and 3rd, in my mind, this year. Cheruiyot didn't medal at World's as Europeans took the top five spots (Jake, Jacob, Katir, Garcia Romo, and ?) but he still ran 3:30 in sixth, he was 2nd at the Kenyan Trials, second in Doha, second at the Commonwealths, second at the DL Final, third at Prefontaine, and had a season best of 3:30.21. I'd put Ollie Hoare third. He ran 3:47 to finish second at Pre, won Commonwealths in a games record 3:30 after an off World's, and took third at the Diamond League final with another 3:30. Then Wightman a close 4th as world champion in 3:29.23, 2nd best performer on the year, and Commonwealth bronze in 3:30.53, with a win at Rabat and UK champs and a third at Bislett in the mile in 3:50 (also #1 ranked in the 1k and roughly #3 in the 800m behind Korir and Arop), and Abel Kipsang fifth. You could switch my #2-4 in any order and it would not be much of a problem because there is an argument to be made for any of them--Cheruiyot for consistent quality, Hoare and Wightman for titles.

Yeah, that's fair. But surging even 30 metres over the 800 runs down the battery. Korir was on his A game so he probably would have won no matter what.

How is this fool passing a pee test?

A fairly obvious user considering how swole he is....