Ches surged past fellow Kenyan Bernard Koech in the last 50 meters to win it.
Edward Cheserek wins Copenhagen Half Marathon in 59:11
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This should be the American record. He is the best hope for an Olympic medal for the USA, 2024 or 2028
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Mocazilla wrote:
This should be the American record. He is the best hope for an Olympic medal for the USA, 2024 or 2028
Did you not just watch Nuguse run 3:43..? I'd argue Chest has never been a global contender, even with his NCAA dominance.
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Jake Robertson DNF, started well enough
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chesapeake bay wrote:
Ches surged past fellow Kenyan Bernard Koech in the last 50 meters to win it.
Great run and great win
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Mocazilla wrote:
This should be the American record. He is the best hope for an Olympic medal for the USA, 2024 or 2028
Agree that it should be an American Record. What's the hold up? He went to high school, college here and has been living in the US for over 15 years now.
Now for medaling, he would be in the talks but so would Nuguse and Fisher.
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Newname wrote:
chesapeake bay wrote:
Ches surged past fellow Kenyan Bernard Koech in the last 50 meters to win it.
Great run and great win
But will he make it to the starting line at the NY marathon health?
If history tells us anything this might be his last race of 2023
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Mocazilla wrote:
This should be the American record. He is the best hope for an Olympic medal for the USA, 2024 or 2028
Isn't it?
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Men are men, women are women. He's Kenyan.
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While he should be an American citizen, he is not. His range now goes among the elite all-time, with a 3:49.44i (2018)/59:11. That is 32 seconds ahead of the American record in the half. Where did that come from? He had been down for years. I see now that he ran 3:36 in 2014, 13:04 in 2019, 27:23 in 2020, and 1:00:13 in 2022. This is still a major breakthrough even if the course and conditions are much faster in Copenhagen.
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I'm... wut wrote:
Mocazilla wrote:
This should be the American record. He is the best hope for an Olympic medal for the USA, 2024 or 2028
Did you not just watch Nuguse run 3:43..? I'd argue Chest has never been a global contender, even with his NCAA dominance.
He is Kenyan and he should accept this.
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so great to see a serious result from King Ches, when so many people on this site have been sh*tting on him for months now
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I remember when someone thought he would be a USA citizen within a year after college. IT AIN’T HAPPENING
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I'm... wut wrote:
Mocazilla wrote:
This should be the American record. He is the best hope for an Olympic medal for the USA, 2024 or 2028
Did you not just watch Nuguse run 3:43..? I'd argue Chest has never been a global contender, even with his NCAA dominance.
Kenya's Prefontaine
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Flower Boy wrote:
Newname wrote:
Isn't it?
He's not American.
He is still not American?
He has been seeking citizenship for years.
Went the HS and college here and has lived here ever since.
What's going on?
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It’s happening!
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Norwegian televison showed the race live. It looked like it was gonna be Koech for a while, but Cheserek had the better race plan and timed his finish perfectly.
Irene Cheptai was the best woman and in a class of her own. She was really struggling those last kilometers. It was painful to watch.
Henrik Ingebrigsten ran his first half-marathon, but didn't finish.
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