Please do not include throwing events. Well is there? And if not barefoot, then heavier training shoes?
Is there any athlete who could WIN in Budapest competing BAREFOOT?
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Barshim, maybe.
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Mondo
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Gdoex wrote:
Please do not include throwing events. Well is there? And if not barefoot, then heavier training shoes?
Hobbs Kessler.................. oh sorry i thought you said local parkrun.
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Faith Kipyegon won World Junior XC running barefoot.
She would have a chance in the Budapest 1500 depending on how calloused her feet are these days.
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1500 is just about the viable lower limit, calluses or not. Faster speeds tear skin off no matter what, on a modern synthetic track. It's like sandpaper. Zola Budd was about the only elite who ever managed to do it, and probably because she trained that way from the start.
An athlete who has always ran track in shoes will get a nasty surprise if they try to go without112 -
You don't need calloused feet to run on a track.
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Agreed, I reckon Faith could absolutely do this barefoot. The race distance is short enough that any discomfort would only really be an issue after the race is done, adrenaline would dull any soreness. Folk lose shoes all the time during races and finish without any issue- didn't Kipruto win the steeple diamond league trophy with only one shoe on?
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I read about barefoot in the past, but I don't think it's the cause of her ability to run so fast today. More like genetics, the food, the air and the altitude. Yeah, I would think altitude and clean air are more important...
She took quite a while to become this good though....not sure where she was when she was younger or maybe I wasn't following that closely....
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ok for the long runs wrote:
Zola Budd was about the only elite who ever managed to do it, and probably because she trained that way from the start.
Hmm, Abebe Bikila and Bruce Tulloh??
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hayward field wrote:
ok for the long runs wrote:
Zola Budd was about the only elite who ever managed to do it, and probably because she trained that way from the start.
Hmm, Abebe Bikila and Bruce Tulloh??
Herb Elliott
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Oscar Pistorius?
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hayward field wrote:
ok for the long runs wrote:
Zola Budd was about the only elite who ever managed to do it, and probably because she trained that way from the start.
Hmm, Abebe Bikila and Bruce Tulloh??
easy to say when your quote cuts out the part about 1500m, and tracks.
Yes, I think Bikila was pretty much into the long runs. It's rare at 1500, and practically unheard of at any shorter distance00 -
he can do it barefooted wrote:
Oscar Pistorius?
he can do it without feet at all
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he can do it barefooted wrote:
Oscar Pistorius?
But don't let him near the starter's pistol.
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Femke, 400h. She could lose two seconds and still win.
FWIW, I think it would be harder for throwers to win without shoes than runners due to the more persistent technical component of throwing. Traction, flatness and heavier weight of shoe, etc.
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Corey Bellemore obviously, assuming they add some beers to the 1500m final
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Faith is just so much better than everybody else, she’d easily win barefoot, without the super spike advantage. Maybe Athing?
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birdbeard wrote:
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nah. He even said that when he was considering signing with Puma that as long as they could make a good spike he was super excited to join the brand that Usain Bolt ran under.
could he jump 19’ without spikes. I don’t know. Maybe, but you need to be ready to jump 6m plus to win these meets nowadays.
and why exclude throwing events? A barefoot Ryan Crouser is not beating a shod Kovacs
I don’t think faith is wining the 1500 without spikes assuming she has to run the rounds barefoot and not just the final.
my vote goes Hassan in the 10,000. Final only and won’t have to contest with faith. I don’t really now how realistic that is though.
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Faith.
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