Austrian 19 year old kid wins Linz Half 1:03:25. Future monster.

Future monster at what?

This Austrian kid is the real deal. Legit future monster. Remember the name.

Timo Hinterdorfer: 19 years young, turns 20 in July 2024.

Track 5000/10,000, half marathon, marathon.

10 year prediction: 13:10/27:20/1:00:00/2:05:00 (or faster).

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MTC recruit his best path.

None of those would be competing at the global stage but 2:05:00 which I will bet against.

My optimism may seem like hyperbole but I'm putting some faith in this kid.

Ghost1 seems to be highlighting quite a few white talents of late. I guess this is why Hoady has fallen out with him.

Well I don’t think the half marathon being a 19 year old’s best event, and that best being 63, is a good sign of them being competitive at the end of major races in their future.

Indeed, and running 63:25, winning by 2 mins in front of Austrian marathon maestro, Mario Bauernfiend (2:12:49 guy) shows good promise. This kid's a 3:56/8:21/14:18 guy, so he'd be welcome on most NCAA D1 teams and most Japanese University or cooperate teams. I suspect he's not the fastest fast twitcher on the block (going by his 4:14 mile base speed) so he'll be more of a grinder than speed merchant. Kid's also intelligent, based on his Instagram handle.. and how he formulates his persona.

Sounds like another Ed Goddard to me. He ran at Iona, was a top 5 guy on their XC team, only ran 14:00 but now is a decent marathoner (2:11? Maybe). But he had run something similar when he was coming over for ncaa visits and he wasn’t revolutionary. Probably just means he can handle a lot of volume at a young age.

How tough is the course? If conditions are good, this is just a really good result for his age, nothing more. Its not that unusual for college freshman guy to be running a little slower than the women's world record. But if the course is hilly or the weather is really terrible, then I agree, its an impressive result.

Oh, if that's what you meant by monster then yes, he'll probably be a good runner for sure. Usually when people use the word monster they are talking olympic champ kind of level.

It was unseasonably hot. All the top finishers mentioned the heat in interviews. Vojta called it brutal.

He is very unique. With only PBs of 3:56 1500m, 8:21 3000m, 14:18 5000m, that 1:03 Half Marathon is very special. A true long distance talent/

Great time for a HM, but why do you think college coaches would be falling over him with his track PBs.? Do you really think he could challenge for titles/finals at 3k/5k, Nico has set the bar pretty high at 10k? As far as I know he hasn't any standout results at Euro Xcountry.

Now if only there was a marathon in the NCAAs...

We have like a dozen kids with better 1500/3k/5k times as 17/18 year olds not someone creeping up on 20. Very few of them run 27:20. And that HM isn’t that much better for a distance kid. In the US you just don’t see very many decent kids running HMs seriously. You need a lot of progression to come close to your times.

Maybe he is undertrained/immature but again you are talking about a kid who is almost 20. Most of them have been training a half dozen years and with a couple of them at decent mileage

1:03:25 is equivalent to about 28:30 and 2:12. Pretty good and a monster aren’t the same thing.

I see your point but for me "monster" category is elite level in general and or super potential for a younger runner. Remember also that Euro young athletes are club trained and undertrained in mileage compared to their American counterparts. I remember a 20 year old kid in France, William Struyven, training 40-60 miles a week, and running 29:00/1:03:00 on that schedule. He also had the exact same 1500 PB as Hinterdorfer, 3:56! Long before Supershoes in the late 90s. Sadly Struyven failed in the marathon, 2:24:00 only, on first and only attempt.

Yeah, this guy could progress to world class but there’s no reason to single him out and hype him up at this point. It’s basically like a college sophomore running 28:40s on the track.