Jakob Ingebrigtsen 800m Potential

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Jakob is literally LetsRun's users' God my goodness. I swear every single one of you have a poster right above your bed of this guy.

THERE ARE POSTERS?

(I'm asking for a friend.)

Um no. He's a 146 guy.

Hicham El Guerrouj was also a 146 guy. Bernard Lagat was a 146 guy.

800 is basically a different sport for him, he'd have more success converting to skiing than the 800.

Webb was a 1:43 guy, I don't see Jakob getting to that point. Lagat's PR is 1:46. No reason to think he could go much faster than that, nor would it be necessary in order to reach his lifetime 1500 potential.

Not sure he has the speed to contend in a fast race.

Hicham never ran the 800m, he could have probably run 1:44 when he was in 1500m record shape. He closed Athens 1500m in '04 in a 1:46, even with a running start thats no worse than 1:47. No way he was only a 1:46 man, he just never raced it.

Hmmmm. There's probably a dozen threads on this, but was Lagat really "a 1:46 guy", just because that is what he ran?

Really? Jakob is a 1:46 guy because that is his current PR, in an event that he uses in early season warmups?

Come on guys. We can do better than this! :)

You can speculate but at the end of the day, you are what you ran.

And Bernard Lagat ran the 800 many times and he couldn't break 146 for the life of him. And he ran 326. I don't think El Guerrouj would be a whole lot faster nor would Yakob.

We have been over this 10,000,000 times on this site. In order to have a PR at a distance, you must line up and run that distance. Whatever is your best time is your PR. Nobody cares what ‘he could of’ done based on extrapolations, points, inference, or sheer speculation. According to IAAF, Jacob’s PR is 1:46. Until he runs faster, that’s what I’m going with.

The bigger question is as a 15/5 guy, will he step down to the 800 to satisfy your curiosity?

Seriously? Hicham ran 1 800m in his entire career in 1995 and thats the end all be all for it? He obviously could run faster, use your brain it makes no sense to anchor to a time ran when his 1500 pb was 3:33.

Actually, the title of this thread is Jakob Ingebrigtsen 800mPotential.

Maybe I could make a thread about Sydney McGlaughlin 400m potential, and you'd reply "50.07 is her PB so that's it!!" ??

Next?

Nobody is saying his PR is faster than 1:46, idk why you are making up this argument. This thread about Jakob's potential in the 800m, not sure why people in this thread continue to miss this.

and therefore it is logical to think that his PB could be 1.46 instead of 1.47.18 that he did as a 21 year old

You're simply lying about the facts.

Yakob, like Bernard Lagat, has raced the 800 summer, winter, noontime and harvest, mid-season, pre-season, post-season, indoors and outdoors, forwards and backwards, and both of them have a PR of 146. That makes them 146 guys.

He ran it this year 1 week before his 346 mile PR and 1 week after his Pre Classic win. He ran 147.

Yeah, really. He ran his 800 PR on 6/30/2020. Really early season rust-buster it was.

Have you seen the semi-final of the world championships? guys barely have done 1:45 or 1:44 high to qualify for the final.

Your prodigy will not stand a single chance against a kicker like Slimane Moula, not speaking for the others.

Now speaking of great milers that were speedy in the 800m.

You have

the Britanics Sebastian Coe (old WR) and Ovett

Aouita (1:43:86 even medaled in the distance Olym 1988)

N. Morceli:

run 1:44.85, 1:44:79 and 1:44:97 at three times in 1991 (barely aged of 20)

El Guerrouj we didn't see him much in the distance but some say he was able to do 1:45 or 1:44 high in his training in his peak.

Asbel Kiprop

1:42:15

Cheruiyot
1:43:11

I feel like you won't be satisfied until someone tells you what you want hear. Jakob would be a 1:41 guy if he devoted an entire year to the 800. Happy now?

Hands up: Who thought Webb was a 1:43 guy before he ran 1:43?