Håkon Moe Berg (19) 3:30.28

Not again

ok now, where the heck are all these Norwegians coming from?

Norwegian state sponsored doping program.

Who is his coach?

Euro 1500 here

Hocker ran 3:31 in the Olympic final at 19 for reference. Norway is so stacked right now jeez

Was he even wearing spikes? That looks like he's heel striking in a pair of Nike frees.

Håkon Moe Berg just turned 19 in June and runs with Team Trønderlag based out of Trondheim, Norway. This is a regional multi-club training group drawing athletes from across various local clubs where most (all?) have achieved the Norwegian national championship (NM) standards for the senior category. The focus is on middle- and long-distance runners and coached by Ola Sakshaug following a training system very much in-line with Marius Bakken and the Ingebrigtsen brothers.

As far as I know the Pfungstadt 1500 was only broadcast via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNlvL9ktAH0/?igsh=cHJwM3V5bGFzcmVq

His Euro U20 wins last weekend were beauties:

He is only 0.1 away from Jakob’s junior national record.

Jakob does not own the Norwegian junior record for 800m and 3000m already. In a few weeks, he may also not own the 1500m junior national record. At least he still holds the national junior record for the steeplechase. Maybe that’s why he is thinking about switching events.

I have a book about this guy. In a previous life he was a baseball player who acted as an unofficial spy for the US during WWII.

That's right.

Even made a movie about this guy: The Catcher was a Spy.

Berg's mission was to attend a physics conference in (neutral) Switzerland during WW II and kill German physicist Werner Heisenberg if he thought Heisenberg's presentation on Germany's nuclear weapons research indicated the Nazis were getting close to developing their own atomic bomb.

They weren't. And, he didn't.

So, interesting namesake for this Norwegian kid.

The club system is filling up and extremely popular as compared to previous decades. Many kids are now turning to athletics as opposed to the hours and hours of training at a time that it takes to become a top Nordic skier.

I thought he was the most impressive runner in the recent U20 and was surprised there wasn't any discussion here.

Tremendous acceleration in a flash. He was mostly toying with those fields.

When they showed his personal best of 3:34 or whatever I thought it must be a mistake. Regardless, completely irrelevant. It was blatantly obvious he's more talented than lots of guys who have run considerably faster.

Full race is available on youtube, maybe a registered poster can embed the link.

https: // youtu. be/xAbabLJci7I

Not sure if I can think of too many races these days that go as close to 3.30.0 as this one without wavelight.

Also I was watching and was like "is that Olli Hoare???" - and it was. He finished last in a 15 man field in 3.36.45

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Pretty sad state of affairs - a guy of his caliber should not be finishing dead last in that field.

He was 20

The third Norwegian in the race, also 19 yrs. old, Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen, number two at 1100, had a tough last 400. New PB 3:34.33.

State sponsored double threshold