The next Jakob? A 9/10 year old runs a 4:11 mile

Certified course?

that cannot be right, surely. Ignoring the fact of it smashing the world age group record out of sight, the fact that he's supposedly beaten the others, all presumably decent young club athletes that are several years older than him, by almost 30 seconds is ridiculous

Yea, it wasnt a mile, more like a half. It was a fun run and almost all the top 25 times were state/ national championship times for age group if it was.

You buried the lead too, they have 1st and 2nd graders running about 60 sec 400 pace for the 500.

That is a fantastic time for an adult male. I find it impossible a 9/10 year old could have run that.

Dwightarm wrote:

That is a fantastic time for an adult male. I find it impossible a 9/10 year old could have run that.

Of course he didn't run that fast. The OP has minimal knowledge of competitive distance running to believe that time.

it's obviously not a legit set of results. the 11 or 12 year old in second ran a "mile" 14 seconds faster than his 1500m best from the end of july, i don't think so

scrags wrote:

that cannot be right, surely. Ignoring the fact of it smashing the world age group record out of sight, the fact that he's supposedly beaten the others, all presumably decent young club athletes that are several years older than him, by almost 30 seconds is ridiculous

My instant thought was that he'd cut the course somewhere and no one complained because it's a kid's race. Still, I thought it was a fun thing to post. Maybe someone will follow up with the organisers

He placed 4th in the kids 500m two years ago.

I coach at one of the top 10 XC programs in the US. I reached out to offer him a full ride if he agrees to skip high school. He will certainly break 4 minutes by age 13.

gumpyrunner wrote:

He placed 4th in the kids 500m two years ago.

EPO, man. It's a HUGE problem in British primary schools

Eh, it’s ok. I wouldn’t get too excited though. Not coming close to that 3:46.91.

High hopes wrote:

I was flicking through the results from yesterday's Richmond Runfest in the UK and came across this:

https://results.racetimingsolutions.co.uk/results.aspx?CId=16269&RId=1281&EId=6

A kid in school year 5 (which means they are either 9 or 10 years old) ran 4:11 for the mile, that's quicker than every age group world record up to 15.

The race is organised by Tom Bedford who also organised the British Olympic trials this year, so the course and timing should be legit. Have we got the next Jakob here? Or has something gone wrong with that results here?

Super fake news from the start but thanks for posting anyway- it kept us entertained over cups of tea and coffee.

Probably like 4 laps on a football field, cut corners.

This is not the next Yakob.

Another giver of +1 wrote:

Certified course?

Yes, it was measured by the same people who measured the track used in the women 3000m WR

Reminds of the time some random dude broke the course record at Mt SAC and it turned out he was actually the last place finisher in the previous race

@Centro

Your move.

Swaglord_the_realest_1 wrote:

@Centro

Your move.

Look @ all these 4:20 milers complaining about this kid going 4:11. LOL

i am the mushroom man wrote:

Reminds of the time some random dude broke the course record at Mt SAC and it turned out he was actually the last place finisher in the previous race

Aw man. Sucks, and a cool story for the dude all at once.