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.
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.
Hard to say if and how much Jakob would have run faster in that one.
However, this Laros run kinda got me thinking he may be the next big challenger of the 1000m WR. Has got a big engine and he's fast. Already quite a bit faster than Jakob in the 800.
I would love to see him give it a go. I think he's a gifted 800-3000m runner, with capability for a good 5000
However, this Laros run kinda got me thinking he may be the next big challenger of the 1000m WR. Has got a big engine and he's fast. Already quite a bit faster than Jakob in the 800.
I would love to see him give it a go. I think he's a gifted 800-3000m runner, with capability for a good 5000
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.
Ahead of Aouita, Ngeny, and Komen...also ahead of Jakob's prior PB in this.
Phenomenal!
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.
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.