Estimate if you have to. Here are the all-time lists:
Tallest vs Shortest / Heaviest vs Lightest sub-1:44 runners
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Alberto Juantorena - Cuba
Former WR holder and 400/800 Oly champ in '76
6'3" / 185 lbs. (190 cm. / 84 kg.)
Big dude with a tremendously long stride.
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Wikipedia bio lists Juantorena as 6'2'', same height as Joaquim Cruz.
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wikipedia is never wrong wrote:
Wikipedia bio lists Juantorena as 6'2'', same height as Joaquim Cruz.
Wiki lists Johnny Gray as 6'3"
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checkers wrote:
Estimate if you have to. Here are the all-time lists:
Nick Symmonds’ 5’10 165 translates to roughly 190 at 6’2.
Makhloufi (apologies on spelling) I’d also guess was in about that weight class.
Snell was also almost 180 at I believe 6’1-6’2
Coe on the other end was small, built more like a 15/5000 guy.
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wasn't andrew wheating literally like 6'5
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Coe weighed in at 119 pounds.
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Probably, the two tallest 800m Olympic gold medalists, John Woodruff & Nils Schumann, neither sub-1:44 men. [Is it better to be a sub-1:44 800m guy or an Olympic gold medalist?]
Probably, the tallest 800m Olympic gold medalist with a sub-1:44 800m p.b., Paul Ereng.
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A sasquatch could easily run a 1:30, and an ostrich could run even faster. Both are very tall and heavy.
Big heavy humans are strangely slow compared to every other known big, tall, 2-legged thing. DFL actually. Is there any slower giant?821 -
CopperRunner wrote:
Coe on the other end was small, built more like a 15/5000 guy.
Wasn't Seb still about 5'8? I am struggling to come up with a really short (call it 5'6 and under) 800m guy.
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Alfred Kirwa Yego (1:42) was tiny.
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fkkfkfkfkf wrote:
CopperRunner wrote:
Coe on the other end was small, built more like a 15/5000 guy.
Wasn't Seb still about 5'8? I am struggling to come up with a really short (call it 5'6 and under) 800m guy.
Leo Manzano, although he is not a sub-1:44 guy.
On the taller end, Duane Solomon is 6-3.
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CopperRunner wrote:
checkers wrote:
Estimate if you have to. Here are the all-time lists:
Nick Symmonds’ 5’10 165 translates to roughly 190 at 6’2.
Makhloufi (apologies on spelling) I’d also guess was in about that weight class.
Snell was also almost 180 at I believe 6’1-6’2
Coe on the other end was small, built more like a 15/5000 guy.
I too first thought of NS, who is neither heavy, short nor tall. But in some other category altogether which I cant define. Just looks nothing at all like a runner. Looks like the wrestlers from my high school warming up on the track. What a specimen though.
But yes, Andrew Wheating is like 7 feet?
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Wheating 6’5 181
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That Frenchman Ben Robert has got to be one of the heaviest.
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Rotich ff wrote:
Wheating 6’5 181
Well there you go, although I dont recall if he was sub 1:44.
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Rotich ff wrote:
Wheating 6’5 181
Can we agree no one over 6'3"-something as raced sub-1:44 800m.
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Rotich ff wrote:
Lightest is easy:
Laban Rotich
He was like 5’3 97 pounds
Totally forgot he ran sub 1:44. But yeah he is probably the winner.he made all the 5'8 guys look like giants..
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Uhh… David Rushida (6’3”)
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