Jacob MF Kiplimo

Well, he looks 19.

I expected him to beat Cheptegei here. He seems even more talented in my opinion. Going to 7:26 on 3,000m to 58'49 on HM one month later is crazy.

The 10,000m of Cheptegei was too late (would've have been better in September). I guess he did not enough km for the Half.

Cheptefail wrote:

19 years old. An insane 3k time and now 58:49 in a tactical half marathon! This guy is the future!

Kiplimo looks like a little kid.

He looks youthful. As does Cheptegei. I think it's fair to say he's younger than Cheptegei. And he's SO SMOOTH. I normally don't like to analyze a race based on someone's form or how good they look as Paula Radcliffe was an animal and she didn't look so hot while running. But as I was watching the race, I was like, "He looks so smooth. Like he's jogging." Beautiful form. Here's what I wrote in the live thread 49 minutes into the race.

Rojowrote:

Kiplimo looks so smooth. Cheptegei has a bit of a hitch to his stride. Does he always run like that?

If Kiplimo wins this, do we view him as the new GOAT? Think about it. His 3k is SICK. So if he beats hiim at age 19 at the 13.1 distance, what will that mean?

It reminds me of tennis. No one could ever be as good as Federer. Oh wati, here's Nadal. Oh wait, here's Djokovic. All basically equally as good..

But Kiplimo is younger. And he may have more speed as shown by his 3k. So if he's got better speed and better endurance (half-marathon) and is younger, why wouldn't he be the new king?

Tim Hutchings nailed the commentary on this one as he basically said many of the same things I was thinking and he was able to do it live all in the last half mile of the race.

kiplimo is impressive, no doubt. but amazing 3k to half is not a big stretch. Farah was running fast halfs concurrently with 328 1500s, iirc

Bekele is the GOAT. Why the f* are we even considering either as the GOAT? Is Pat Mahomes the GOAT quarterback? No. He doesn’t even compare to TB12 yet

59 30 in march. 328 in july. 59 20 in September. 2015

bekele is goat,but he may not always be. the speculation is fun

high school xc coach wrote:

59 30 in march. 328 in july. 59 20 in September. 2015

But 328 is like 727 3k and 59:20 is an eternity away from a tactical 58:49 on a course with tight turns. I would say Jakob has overtaken Mo as the GROAT.

Biggest Kiplimo fan here

Kiplimo, the guy who never runs away from competition

When is the last time we saw that?

Mo? Certainly not. Where was he today? Not that he would have been close to the podium, but...

Bekele? No

Geb? Not

...

I hope that he continues to search out competition and that he never runs away from it. The sport needs more guys like Kiplimo.

I congratulate Cheptegei for showing up today. His 5,000 and 10,000 were devoid of competition. That was not cool.

trail_runner wrote:

19 years old haha sure

+1

Have always said Kiplimo is the future, and is probably as good as Cheptegei. It's like no one paid attention to the World Cross last year, or Kiplimo's previous runs on less grand stages. I believe Joshua has the edge over him at the moment, but he's one for the future. This was a bad day for Cheptegei -- he will definitely win this at some point in the future, and many more medals -- and the next best athlete happened to be competing to capitalise.

He covered his last 1.1k at 2:38/km pace (13:10 pace for 5k)

How fast was his 16k to 21k split?

high school xc coach wrote:

kiplimo is impressive, no doubt. but amazing 3k to half is not a big stretch. Farah was running fast halfs concurrently with 328 1500s, iirc

Farah wasn’t as good at the half though.

new low wrote:

high school xc coach wrote:

kiplimo is impressive, no doubt. but amazing 3k to half is not a big stretch. Farah was running fast halfs concurrently with 328 1500s, iirc

Farah wasn’t as good at the half though.

Of the guys faster than Kiplimo at 3000m, only Geb and Bekele tried the half. Kiplimo is faster than both at the half.

Of course both Bekele and Geb could of/should of...

However, they didn’t. They had plenty of time to do it, but did not.

13:38

The ease of his stride and expression throughout is almost spooky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRoUAKLpqgI

And just like that, Uganda is now the distance running powerhouse of the world. Similar to Slovenia in cycling.

Yeah okay.