14 year old British athlete runs 3:54 for 1500m

Amazing stuff. What was the previous record? He must surely have obliterated it?

For comparison, Crammy was running 3:47 at 16.

There are quite a few sensational teen talents around in GB as elsewhere at the moment.

A 13 year old won my local ParkRun a couple of months ago, and then I checked his Power of 10 and he is in this kind of talent league. Forgot his name though, lol.

I see he has already run a 1:55 800m this season as well.

https://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=928697&viewby=date

3:59.2 was the previous best by Ben Greenwood 2013.

He had already front run, some 7 seconds clear, a 3:59.91 this season. Therefore, when I saw that he was entered in a quality BMC 'B' race, then I was expecting him to run 3:57/3:58 and take the record. He ended up running in the 'A' race, so I presume they must have changed the start list for him on the day. It is mental that he ran 3:54.

I was running low 4:30's at his age, but I didn't train regularly and I probably could have run low 4:20's, if I had taken myself seriously. I find it kind of irritating to know that someone could have hammered me by 30 seconds or so, even at my hypothetical best. Ha ha ha.

https://thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=928697

Several US freshmen ran around 4:10 1600 this year.

And how old were these freshmen?

A year or two means a lot in that age.

A Norwegian "freshman" ran 3:56 in the mile at 16.

14/15

On ran 4:07 which is about 3:49

Interesting his coach is his father who never quite made it to elite level despite many years of trying. Hope he isn't going too hard too early

Sophomore*

He ran a 3:42 1500m as a freshman though (15) and a 3:48 1500m as an 8th grader (14).

Cameron Myers ran only 0.03 seconds faster at the same age. And he might go faster yet this season.

athleticsweekly.com

Evan Grime smashes UK U15 record for 1500m by five seconds - AW

Sensational breakthrough of 3:54.36 for Salford Harrier plus news of another win for Kate Axford in our UK track and field round-up

Open link

Newbie here. For context, fastest ever 1500 by a US 15-year-old is 3:54:02.

But Ingebrigtsen ran 3:48:07 at 14.

Who is On and how old was he?

He ran in the World Indoors

Why are you, as a grown man, slower than a 14 year old?

Ian and his brother Peter were both just old fashioned, hard training, down to earth decent runners.

The UK club scene is a bit different in the sense that a lot of people run for the pure enjoyment of competing, I think in the US you either become 'pro' after college or you retire. Although I'm sure he was trying to become 'elite', I don't really get the impression not becoming 'elite' is something that he'll be looking back at with any regret.

Wow, thought that was a typo. I hope he is enjoying it. 14! Still four years in the U18s (kind of).

He’s not a freshman. He’s year 9, equivalent to 8th grade.