Fastest 800 by any non-Semenya woman indoors or out since 2018.
Wale beat Girma at 1500 by .06 in 3:35.54, with Elliot Giles the 800 man 3rd in 3:36.9
1:57.52
very very impressive from Giles
o0o0o0 wrote:
1:57.52
Huh, I guess that’s what I get for trusting the World Athletics headline.
If she is the real deal and has a future, she ought to come up with a nickname or something. Gudaf is just not that marketable...no offense. Lots of musicians, authors, etc have used more "market friendly" names. Not like its unusual.
She 100% should run the 800 at the Olympics. World Athletics should make the double even easier than it is. It drives me NUTS they don't make doubles easier to do.
The #1 way to make the sport more popular is to create stars. How do you create stars? You let them develop a brand by winning mutliple gold medals over the span of 9-10 days like Michael Phelps/Usain Bolt.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/08/what-track-and-field-doubles-are-doable-at-the-2021-olympics/
rojo wrote:
She 100% should run the 800 at the Olympics. World Athletics should make the double even easier than it is. It drives me NUTS they don't make doubles easier to do.
The #1 way to make the sport more popular is to create stars. How do you create stars? You let them develop a brand by winning mutliple gold medals over the span of 9-10 days like Michael Phelps/Usain Bolt.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/08/what-track-and-field-doubles-are-doable-at-the-2021-olympics/
As a fan I’d love to see her run the double, but it might be risky for her own gold medal prospects. Even with her crazy 3:53i, you can bet that she’ll have her hands full with Faith Kipyegon in the 1500 come the Olympics. If running 3 rounds of the 800 negatively affects her sharpness for the 15 whatsoever, it’s not worth the risk, unless she can reliably run 1:56-low or better and just run away from everyone. The 800 comes down to positioning and tactics more than any other track race IMO, so even if you’re Wilson Kipketer or Seb Coe you’re not guaranteed the gold, and occasionally you get rather surprising winners like Nils Schumann or Halimah Nakaayi. At this point it’s still easy to imagine her getting boxed out of the medals or even failing to qualify from a chippy, tactical semi.
Interesting that between this 1:57.52i and Kipyegon’s 1:57.68 last season (in her one attempt), we’re seeing what we’ve long suspected, that the 1500 medalists are at least as fast at 800 as the 800 specialists (excepting a possibly “beefed-up” Ajee Wilson).
name commenter wrote:
If she is the real deal and has a future, she ought to come up with a nickname or something. Gudaf is just not that marketable...no offense. Lots of musicians, authors, etc have used more "market friendly" names. Not like its unusual.
She is GudAF
shtrj546456 wrote:
name commenter wrote:
If she is the real deal and has a future, she ought to come up with a nickname or something. Gudaf is just not that marketable...no offense. Lots of musicians, authors, etc have used more "market friendly" names. Not like its unusual.
She is GudAF
Hey I was just gonna suggest “Rodney Dangerfield” but that’s really good.
It’s GudAF.
Who is she coached by?
John Wesley Harding wrote:
Fastest 800 by any non-Semenya woman indoors or out since 2018.
Wale beat Girma at 1500 by .06 in 3:35.54, with Elliot Giles the 800 man 3rd in 3:36.9
Yup, Wale and Girma slower than Tanner.
name commenter wrote:
If she is the real deal and has a future, she ought to come up with a nickname or something. Gudaf is just not that marketable...no offense. Lots of musicians, authors, etc have used more "market friendly" names. Not like its unusual.
Not sure if you were aware that the rest of the world has different names than the ones you use in The States...
Weeping minnows wrote:
John Wesley Harding wrote:
Fastest 800 by any non-Semenya woman indoors or out since 2018.
Wale beat Girma at 1500 by .06 in 3:35.54, with Elliot Giles the 800 man 3rd in 3:36.9
Yup, Wale and Girma slower than Tanner.
Put them in this year’s NBIGP 1500 and I bet they go 2-3. Girma, for the record, has a 3:33 1500 PB, albeit outdoors. Their 3 birthdates are all from 2000, within about 4 months of each other. Of course, Sam Tanner is amazing, and what perfect timing to take up the torch for New Zealand.
1.57x indoors is much faster outdoors. Just like her 3.53 for the 1500. Dibaba's previous record of 3.55 indoors was 5 seconds slower than her outdoor record. On that basis Tsegay may well run 3.48 outdoors. Not bad for a runner whose previous best outdoors was just under 3.55 in 2019. I love these Covid-era performances.
Armstronglivs wrote:
1.57x indoors is much faster outdoors. Just like her 3.53 for the 1500. Dibaba's previous record of 3.55 indoors was 5 seconds slower than her outdoor record. On that basis Tsegay may well run 3.48 outdoors. Not bad for a runner whose previous best outdoors was just under 3.55 in 2019. I love these Covid-era performances.
As a guy who grew up watching YouTube videos of the astonishing runs by Komen, El Guerrouj, Ngeny, Lagat, Gebrselassie and Bekele from ‘96-‘04, and seeing the incomprehensible Chinese outliers on the women’s toplists, later getting embarrassingly jacked when I saw Dibaba had run 3:50, I must admit I love these incredibly fast times, too.
She’s got a good shot at the double, especially with Kipyegon moving up to the 5k
Kipyegon is running 1500m in Tokyo and plans to move up thereafter. So Gudaf vs Kipyegon is on!
In her 1500m Indoor WR Gudaf went out in sub 59 for 400m, slowed to around 65 for next 400m, then picked out back up...whole hurting and grimacing in tge last 200m she put another 5m of distance on Laura Muur.
Gudaf can surely run faster in the 1500m right now then her 3:53.0 WR with more sensible pacing, scary questions is how much faster?
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