Team GB has 7 men below 3:32.00 over 1500m. How?

UK is a sporty country. Motivated populace. Usually decent weather for running training. Lots of lottery and government funding.

332 is easier than it used to be. And GB is a big country, ten times the population of Norway.

well in that case USA should have 30+ guys under 3:32

Is the staff & Editors of this site not all US based?

A lot of it is the history of mid-d running in the UK. People like Coe, Ovett, Cram, and Kelly Holmes are legendary here. The best athletes naturally select into mid-d events which leaves the 5/10 a bit threadbare. It's a bit like how New Zealand keeps producing top rugby players even though it's a small country

2 in norway?

Jakob, Narve, Filip, Henrik. All under 3:32, two under 3:30.

Edit: did not see your cutoff.

Athletics was largely confined to the 0.1% of the population inn GB who went to Oxbridge until the 1960,s, yet Britain still excelled at the 1500 with the likes of Bannister. As soon as they let the other 99.9% compete you had Coe, Ovett, Cram, Elliott, Moor croft etc. Then the African EPO era almost killed middle-d in Britain, assisted by the explosion of money in Premiership soccer.

With a level playing field again, GB has twice as many sub 3:32 runners as Kenya, despite the population of Kenya doubling and the native population of GB shrinking.

Another factor is the increase in West African soccer players in England. So George Mills whips the East Africans over a mile because he couldn't get into a premier league team because of all the West African imports. African genetics in action.

Every single point you've made is wrong.

That's simply not true about West African footballers. The Premier League is full of European talent. More than that, football is the most meritocratic sport on the planet. The barriers to entry are extremely low and if you're any good, the financial incentives for clubs are so high that some top club will find you, no matter where you are. It's the one sport in Britain that the middle class, private school types have not managed to break into because you simply can't fake that type of technical skill or close off opportunities with barriers to access. That's a long way of saying if Mills had been remotely good enough, he could have been a footballer. West African didn't close off any opportunities for him.

The UK has a big youth participation problem. Compare our school sports competitions to those in the US. And the lottery funding is not great. It amounts to around £30-35k for the very top category (around 17 athletes) plus medical and training support which UKA values at around £20-60k depending on the category. Compared to some of the sponsorship deals US athletes are on, it's chicken feed. A US 10k athlete finishing 14th at Worlds probably earns more than Keely Hodgkinson.

You're right about the weather though. It's rarely too hot or too cold in the UK

As much as people talk about Jakob being a generational running talent, if you drive 20 minutes south from Jakob's residence you'd standing in the hometown of a guy who's going to be a billionaire by the end of his sports career. And that guy is barely 2 months older than Jakob too.

Americans like to talk about how many talents disappear to the NFL and the NBA, but I'm not sure they understand the immense gravity of football worldwide. Perhaps a couple more seasons with Messi in the MLS can shed some light on it.

Wildly inaccurate on all fronts

It's not soccer either.

Anybody bringing genetics into the equation is an scientific rasist.

Britains are genetically superior.

No Kenyan can run sub 3:35 clean, Brits can run 3:27 clean. Sub 3:26 is impossible to be run clean. If a Brit runs 3:25 he will be clean.

Brits don't dope. Or only cyclists. OK also in athletics, but only sprinters. OK, also distance runners, but only blacks.

My name is coevett, Coe would have run sub 1:40 under current conditions, Ovett would have run 3:23. Am I stupid? Yes, for sure.

Not to downplay the athletes, but there’s a good chance this is simply a statistical peak for the UK and average or below average for the rest of the world.

in an other word, luck.

Wouldn’t be surprised if a few of these guys ran lifetime bests this year and don’t match their times in the years to come. The depth drops of quickly too, so this level of performance by the UK doesn’t seem sustainable.

Even if there’s 4-5 British athletes running this fast next year, it’s still impressive.

Why not? because the mile seems to be the religion of GB athletics with their inventor (forgot his name) that drop the first under 4 mins in the mile.

‘How’, you ask?

Training from the likes of Peter Coe, Horwill’s 5-pace, VO2max, etc., etc.

Just luck of the draw. There has been pretty close to 40 years of nothing from GB in men's 1500/mile. Programs, coaches, traing methodologies all rise and fall. No secret sauce, at least not for long. Fooled by randomness.

State sponsored mandatory doping program. The brits are filthy cheating dopers to the core.