Sam Whitmarsh 1:44.46

Like next week ? great run

Awesome. We could use a few more young 800 guys taking it to the next level.

Dude ran 47.75 for 400 as a HS sophomore. Obviously a big talent.

Big strong dude like Arop, might be a good matchup this summer.

Super impressive performance and I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. He was relatively quiet this winter and didn't even make indoor nationals (though his 1:47.39 in winning SECs missed qualifying by less than 0.01 sec).

If he can replicate this performance throughout the season, he should be a contender for the Olympic team. Throwing collegians into the mix, like Murphy in 2016 and Jewett in 2021, always makes the trials more exciting

52.0/52.4 splits indicate he can go faster in a more aggressively paced race.

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Paul Ereng now coaching him right?

Paul juice Ereng

Yep. Ereng was the first Oly 800 champ on EPO. Billy Konchellah was the first WC 800 champ on EPO - and he bragged about it to the other runners.

Imagine the attention and praise Sam would receive if he were a POC.

Maybe Ereng was the first on EPO, but definitely not the first to dope. Coe won in 1984 and I think he might be the dirtiest 800m athlete ever.

No one can compare to the doped up Africans of ‘87 onward. If Coe had doped he’d likely have won two Olympic 800 golds.

Wilson Kipketer is the dirtiest 800 performer ever. He would routinely be out sick with ‘malaria’ but his symptoms matched those of too much blood doping, not malaria.

True but the 800m has the biggest list of what ifs of any race out there lol

The biggest enemy in winning Olympic 800m golds to Coe was Coe himself. Man’s record is pretty obvious, notably poor tactician in championship 800m races. But in the 1500m much better.

The reason why Coe won one Gold was because he doped. Coe was a very-well trained runner that was 50 point 400m runner at a full age of 18.

Age 20, he was a 1:44 800m runner all of a sudden and split 45x a year or so after that.

Here are his results in 1981.

A suddenly jump of 2 secs+ in a extremely hard distance that nothing in his other performances suggest it.

03 JUN 1981 London
GBR
1:44.06 N/A F 1. 1202
10 JUN 1981 Firenze

ITA
1:41.73 N/A F 1. 1275
07 AUG 1981 London

GBR
1:45.84 N/A H1 1. 1148
08 AUG 1981 London

GBR
1:45.41 N/A F 1. 1161
04 SEP 1981 Roma IAAF World Cup, Stadio Olimpico, Roma

ITA
1:46.16 GL F 1. 1138

Runners up to ‘81 fir the most part didn’t have race after race with pacers helping them go after records week after week. Coe and Ovett literally got the ball rolling on that situation with their battles to have the last word in the mile/1500. Usually they just ran with the fields and kicked to win. But woketards and jidf tools don’t consider accuracy important. Notice how they suck up (and worse) to any POC athlete. Virtue signaling combined with various hateful agendas are what provide us with these excrement shows.

Coe ran 1.42.33 in 1978 WR. That came as a result of his introduction to strength training with Gandy. In HS he was primarily a 1500/3000 runner, and a late developer physically.

800 Meter U I mean Texas A&M had a down year last year after a coaching change midway through the season and many injuries, but they have Whitmarsh, Kimar Farquharson who just opened up with a 1:46, Caden Norris who opened up with a 1:48 and two long distance guys who opened with a 1:49

Wilson Kipketer, if anything, would have been taking EPO, not blood doping. The latter was probably Seb Coe's method of choice. Kipketer was genuinely sick with malaria. If you grow up in the Rift Valley, you're likely to get periodic cases of malaria. My students would get it frequently. The parasite stays in your body, causing repeated bouts.

Let's keep this about the third male American collegian to break through to world class in the past eight years, Brazier at A and M in 2016, Sumner at UGA in 2023, and now Whitmarsh at A and M in 2024.