Jakob Ingebrigtsen is NOT even the Best 19 Year Old Runner Named Jakob/Jacob

I don’t know of anyone named Jakob/Jacob.

So Jake won the 800, Jakob won the 1500, Jacob won the 5000 today. A total Jakob sweep.

Heres Jonny wrote:

Jacob Kiplimo just ran 12:48 at age 19 and is obviously a better runner than Ingebrigtsen. Let us celebrate these two young stars of the sport. Maybe they would have a good battle at 3000m.

I'd like to watch them race a 5K now. I think Ingebrigtsen would win.

well actually wrote:

Heres Jonny wrote:

Jacob Kiplimo just ran 12:48 at age 19 and is obviously a better runner than Ingebrigtsen. Let us celebrate these two young stars of the sport. Maybe they would have a good battle at 3000m.

I'd like to watch them race a 5K now. I think Ingebrigtsen would win.

Then why did he duck the competition today?

Jacob Kiplimo is the superior 5K and up runner. World XC silver trumps anything Jakob’s done globally but 3:28 is better than 12:49. It’s not so cut and dried between the two. In the Olympics Kiplimo probably will be expected to get a bronze in the 10,000, but that might be it. Meanwhile Jakob is favored to get silver in the 15.

3:28 is better than 12:48

Jacob Ingebrigtsen is better.

Well 3'28 in Monaco...I ll be impressed when this 3'28 comes from somewhere else.

From the shadows wrote:

Well 3'28 in Monaco...I ll be impressed when this 3'28 comes from somewhere else.

You mad?

Nobody is trying to impress you. It is not clear which one is better.

Heres Jonny wrote:

Jacob Kiplimo just ran 12:48 at age 19 and is obviously a better runner than Ingebrigtsen. Let us celebrate these two young stars of the sport. Maybe they would have a good battle at 3000m.

I would love to see 3000m as an Olympic event. Three-thousand metres is the longest distance tv networks may be willing to go sans commercials. Aged out 1500m gals & guys versus true 3000m-5000m athletes, it would be exciting. We need to dump 10000m A.S.A.P. What were they thinking in 1912? Twenty-five laps on 400m track is awful television. 1500m to 10000m, the race starts with 900m to go.

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

Jacob Kiplimo is the superior 5K and up runner. World XC silver trumps anything Jakob’s done globally but 3:28 is better than 12:49. It’s not so cut and dried between the two. In the Olympics Kiplimo probably will be expected to get a bronze in the 10,000, but that might be it. Meanwhile Jakob is favored to get silver in the 15.

Well 12:48 is superior to 3:28 for so I am not sure why some of you insist on the contrary. However, a 3:28 at Monaco holds even less weight than a 3:28 elsewhere, as another poster mentioned. Jakob appears to be a 3:30 runner elsewhere, which is very good but not in the class of Kiplimo. Maybe a 3000m race would be interesting, as I mentioned before.

dumb

Heres Jonny wrote:

THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:

Jacob Kiplimo is the superior 5K and up runner. World XC silver trumps anything Jakob’s done globally but 3:28 is better than 12:49. It’s not so cut and dried between the two. In the Olympics Kiplimo probably will be expected to get a bronze in the 10,000, but that might be it. Meanwhile Jakob is favored to get silver in the 15.

Well 12:48 is superior to 3:28 for so I am not sure why some of you insist on the contrary. However, a 3:28 at Monaco holds even less weight than a 3:28 elsewhere, as another poster mentioned. Jakob appears to be a 3:30 runner elsewhere, which is very good but not in the class of Kiplimo. Maybe a 3000m race would be interesting, as I mentioned before.

Correct.

And Kiplimo had no pacers.

Pajac wrote:

Heres Jonny wrote:

Well 12:48 is superior to 3:28 for so I am not sure why some of you insist on the contrary. However, a 3:28 at Monaco holds even less weight than a 3:28 elsewhere, as another poster mentioned. Jakob appears to be a 3:30 runner elsewhere, which is very good but not in the class of Kiplimo. Maybe a 3000m race would be interesting, as I mentioned before.

Correct.

And Kiplimo had no pacers.

That's not the race I saw. He had Barega to chase for 4000m. Without Barega there is no way he would have run 12:48

ex-runner wrote:

Pajac wrote:

Correct.

And Kiplimo had no pacers.

That's not the race I saw. He had Barega to chase for 4000m. Without Barega there is no way he would have run 12:48

I agree with the second sentence in your post.

But Kiplimo still had no dedicated pacers, as he first set the pace with Crippa and then hit the front soon after catching Barega, after a solo chase.

12:48 is 13 seconds off the 5000m WR. 3:28 is less than 3 seconds off the 1500m WR.

13/3 = 4.333 > 3.333 = 5000/1500

So sorry. Study math a bit harder.

Also, McSweyn is Galen Rupp

Bad Wigins wrote:

12:48 is 13 seconds off the 5000m WR. 3:28 is less than 3 seconds off the 1500m WR.

13/3 = 4.333 > 3.333 = 5000/1500

So sorry. Study math a bit harder.

Also, McSweyn is Galen Rupp

I wish you were close to as smart as you think you are. Your method is virtually meaningless. It is almost as meaningless as stating that Ingebrigtsen’s 3:28.68 is the 30th fastest performance and Kiplimo’s 12:48.63 is the 20th fastest performance, which would give the edge to Kiplimo. But IF you were a bit smarter, you would realize that Ingebrigtsen and Cheptegei both ran their times at Monaco, which means neither will ever run as fast elsewhere. Kiplimo is the better runner, and it appears that this gap will widen.

there's no argument in there at all. Blabbering about how you don't think I'm smart doesn't prove me wrong, and thus it makes you look dumb, and desperate. When you smarten up you'll figure that out and spend more time crafting your arguments.

12:48 is still 11 seconds off Bekele, a bigger chunk of the 5000m WR than 3 seconds is to the 1500m record. 3:28 beats 12:48 easily. Another way of looking at it is Jakob is the 8th fastest all-time performer at 1500, but 12:48 is no better than 12th. So sorry, looks like I'm smart after all!

Bad Wigins wrote:

there's no argument in there at all. Blabbering about how you don't think I'm smart doesn't prove me wrong, and thus it makes you look dumb, and desperate. When you smarten up you'll figure that out and spend more time crafting your arguments.

12:48 is still 11 seconds off Bekele, a bigger chunk of the 5000m WR than 3 seconds is to the 1500m record. 3:28 beats 12:48 easily. Another way of looking at it is Jakob is the 8th fastest all-time performer at 1500, but 12:48 is no better than 12th. So sorry, looks like I'm smart after all!

You conveniently "forgot" to address the Monaco bit.