Age 18 years, 48 days. Pete Richardson National High school record - 6/6/1981 1:47.31 - Amazing 3rd 200 split. He had a 47.7 400 PR
(Splits: 27.2, 26.8 [54.0], 25.8 [1:19.8], 27.5)
He never got much faster. https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/pete-richardson-14359399
A 1% improvement over 41 years would be about 1:46.23. I would have thought we would have had a High school record holder closer to 1:44.23 by now- by a true 18 year old High School Senior. The U.S. Junior class record should be closer to 1:46.23.
Currently held by Elijah Greer 1:47.68 - he ended up with a personal best 6 years later of 1:44.91
I don't think many of these High school phenoms ever make it on the world stage. Although I guess Brazier is an exception, he wasn't a record holder in High school.
Johnny Gray never broke 1:50 in High school- his best was 1:51.1,
He didn't really have a break though until 4 years later. 1:45.41
Of course he went on to be the American Record holder and was still running 1:43.9 at age 36.
CADE MF FLATT 1:46.51
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The cade can flatt run...
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Cade Flatt is a dbag wrote:
Flatt is good but he is a total dbag. I'm usually pretty tolerant but am already rooting against this guy. He makes Everett Smulders and Everet Silva seem pretty inocuous.
Love him, or hate him, he is a star! he has the track world buzzing. He makes it fun, which is exactly what this sport need. I know I’ll be tuning in to see what’s next, and you will too.
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runnerboy70 wrote:
The cade can flatt run...
They're gonna' write songs about him..
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I just looked it up. Currently he is second all time outdoors, and third all time indoors. Only one other person is in the top 20 on both list. That’s Cameron Cooper. I’ll say it first. He IS the best ever high school 800 runner.
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Top 10 not too 20. I didn’t look that far down the list.
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Matt Boling - Turned 19 before graduating high school. Set the 100 meter HS record. Cade Flatt - Turned 19 before graduating high school. Just missed the 800 meter HS record.
Yeah they're very good, but come on. These guys are older than many college freshmen.
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JohnR wrote:
Matt Boling - Turned 19 before graduating high school. Set the 100 meter HS record. Cade Flatt - Turned 19 before graduating high school. Just missed the 800 meter HS record.
Yeah they're very good, but come on. These guys are older than many college freshmen.
Boling was born 6/20/00 and graduated in 2019.
Unless Texas is way different than where I live, he graduated at least a few weeks prior to his 19th birthday.
I do agree that, based on his date of birth, one would have expected him to graduate in 2018.
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Birthdayboy wrote:
Age 18 years, 48 days. Pete Richardson National High school record - 6/6/1981 1:47.31 - Amazing 3rd 200 split. He had a 47.7 400 PR
(Splits: 27.2, 26.8 [54.0], 25.8 [1:19.8], 27.5)
He never got much faster. https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/pete-richardson-14359399
A 1% improvement over 41 years would be about 1:46.23. I would have thought we would have had a High school record holder closer to 1:44.23 by now- by a true 18 year old High School Senior. The U.S. Junior class record should be closer to 1:46.23.
Currently held by Elijah Greer 1:47.68 - he ended up with a personal best 6 years later of 1:44.91
I don't think many of these High school phenoms ever make it on the world stage. Although I guess Brazier is an exception, he wasn't a record holder in High school.
Johnny Gray never broke 1:50 in High school- his best was 1:51.1,
He didn't really have a break though until 4 years later. 1:45.41
Of course he went on to be the American Record holder and was still running 1:43.9 at age 36.Fair point that very few HS phenoms make it on the world stage with the most noteworthy exception being Brazier. Actually, how many HS phenoms go on to win even NCAA titles in the 800? At least Elijah Greer won two championships for the Ducks; not too many on the Top 10 list have.
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For those trying to find Flatt's attempt somewhere in the nearly 13-hour podcast, it's at 10:34:56 on the time counter at
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you are out of your damn mind if you think that he’ll run anywhere near that in his career
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Umpteen77 wrote:
I just looked it up. Currently he is second all time outdoors, and third all time indoors. Only one other person is in the top 20 on both list. That’s Cameron Cooper. I’ll say it first. He IS the best ever high school 800 runner.
One thing's for sure: You won't say it first.
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