Alberto Salazar’s Record at NY Marathon 2:08:13 would NOT make the Olympics

His 1981 WR wasn't a WR.

Alberto Salazar was the best American marathoner of the early- to
mid-80s. After a top-flight career as a distance runner at the
University of Oregon, winning 1978 NCAA cross-country race, Salazar made
his marathon début at the 1980 New York Marathon. He won the race again
in 1981-82, and in 1981 his time of 2-08:13 was thought to be a world
marathon record, but after re-measurement, the course was found to be
slightly short.

Yes it would. On a accurate measured course with modern shoes and nutrition he would've been a sub 2:06 marathon runner.

This^. Google Pat Petersen please.

And sadly the last clean elite American marathoner.

The course that was re-measured was not the same as the course Salazar ran in 1981. Even the guy who did the re-measure said this.

A 2:08:13 would still finish top five in pretty much every NY City Marathon. And a top five in a platinum label marathon does qualify for the Olympics. It would also earn a lot of WA rankings points. In the last Olympics approximately. 50% of the field was chosen by rankings, not time. So 2:08:13 in NY is still very good.

This reeks of another dumb troll post by the430miler.

What arrangement do you have with rojo to try and get mouse clicks?

Yes it would. The stupidity to make a post like this (for several reasons) while being wholly inaccurate too.

Top 5 finish at a major marathon counts as a qualifier, regardless of time. So Salazar would qualify.

Also, even if your incorrect statement was correct, the WR in 1981 probably wouldn’t be an Olympic qualifier for many events.

Who? Surely not Salazar. 😄

Even if you don't want to accept Salazar's NY time as the American record, he also ran 2:08:52 in Boston in 1982. If you don't want to accept that because Boston is point-to-point (there was no rule disqualifying point-to-point courses in 1982), then AlSal's 2:09:21 from Fukuoka in 1983 should suffice. Six Americans ran faster than 2:10:04 before Pat Peterson did it in 1989.

I'm not trying to slight Pat Peterson, but to say he ever held the American record is revisionist history.

Also Maybe his most impressive Feat is He still holds His High School in Wayland Massachusetts in the 5000 and 2 Mile AND No One at his High School has run a 3200 that converts to faster than Salazar's 2 Mile, Salazars Records were set in 1976 So if the Records are still standing in 1 Year, It will be 50 Years That is INCREDIBLE as once a Record is set it becomes a Target.

Guy who hates Alberto but credits him with the world record at NYC still is certainly a type of guy to be

Most of my HS’s records date to the 70’s

Wrong'em boyo. And it's Pat Petersen.

Are you speaking of David Katz??

You’re joking, right?

Hate him or love him, but Salazar did not run the tangents, not even close. It was measured in the early 80's following his footsteps that day the best that they could via using the race video and apparently still came up slightly short, 50 yards. Don't ask me how, but that's what I read.

The bummer on it is with all of the pre-race hype, national TV coverage mainly because of the WR prediction by Salazar, and it wasn't balls on accurate. I'm not blaming Mr. Katz, I'm just still shocked that it wasn't triple dog checked for accuracy. I realize too that the rules were apparently different back then.

Salazar ran 2:09:29 the next year, so did that time count? It's not Boston, it's New York.

All in all it was a total bummer for him. Look at his 1/2 marathon split that day, how accurate was that and if not, how far off could it have been?