Laros - wow: 4:49.68 8th all time

Tricked me. Thought its was Cooper Teare tearing down that straightaway.

Is there a culture of running in countries that border the North Sea? Do they run 5 miles to school each way each day? Or is it genetic superiority?

High school kids bike to school. 5 miles each way every day. Its better than nothing.

I was wondering how World Athletics scores it, and they are pretty generous on the 2,000 giving this as his no. 1 all-time performance by 11 points. Granted his prior top best was in the Worlds final, having a rough last 200 meters so...Either way great performance by pretty much the top 5 here (excepting maybe Mario who has Oslo) running season-best efforts or pretty close to it.

Jeez Jakob ran 4:50.01 at 19, the same year he ran 3:28. Laros is still just 18. Absolutely crazy.

Jakob’s 2k was a team event in the impossible games - Team Ingebrigtsen v Team Kenya. The 3rd person to cross the line stops the clock. Jakob ran behind two pacers, and then paced his brothers thru 1600 before taking off the final 400. He likely could have run a few seconds faster if it didn’t have the team element to it.

Correct. One side of my family is from there and they'd bike 5-10 miles each way to school.

except of course for the kids who live right beside the school

Laros will beat Jakob and Kerr next year.

To put in perspective, Laros essentially ran 3:53.0 pace for a mile….faster than Webb’s US HS record… but ~25% farther.

laros is a damn animal. definitely looks to be jakob's successor. Great to see Stewy run well also.

There’s a bicycling culture in the Netherlands. Casual cross training on the commute

I hope he has good advisers holding him back from biting of more than he can chew at this young age - too much, too fast, too young before his body is fully matured in the early 20s and he'll just be the next permanently injured Donavan Brazier instead of the next Jakob Ingebrigtsen.

Worth mentioning that he is coach by Tomasz Lewandowski, brother and coach of Marcin Lewandowski. We can be quite sure that he will be one of the world's greatest, if nothing terrible will happen on the way.

Pretty nice.

Perspective -- 6.5 secs behind Jakob in that race

with a hoover ride all the way.

jacob drafted for 65% of the race, not end to end.

and when jacob drafted he was too far back to benefit best, why don't these guys practice drafting in repeat 400 ms? coe was the worst at this, else he'd have run 140, and even 139, but there was no opportunity at peak, but jonny grey could have paced to 650m at 139 pace..

genetically with norway, brits, africa, morocco having the best times to date in the middle distances, it's anyone's ballgame.

jacob is 8 seconds better at 2000m than laros,

laros at age 21 will intersect with jacob at age 25 for the title.

if laros goes 143 or 142 in the 8 in the next 2 years, then his event will be the 1500, and the world record will be in reach at that point, where jacob may focus on the 5k.

this stands to be an epic clash, hopefully not like coe vs ovett, where both guys avoided each other like the plague.

Everybody talking about Inge vs Laros while nobody taking in consideration Reynold Cheruyiot who is even way stronger than Laros. Ok you prefer european runner (i also do) rather than kenyans but you will be very disappointed when R.Cheruyiot turns out to be better than the Dutch. The kenyan yesterday went only 5 seconds slower than J.Inge.

You do realize that a a Kenyan has never held the 1500m world record. Of course, Cheruyiot could be the first, but odds are against him.