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21 years ago 09/15/2002 3:15am EDT

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A previous thread on this board discussed the perceived relatively larger physiques of female 800m runners compared to their male counterparts.

Notice much bigger the male 800m runners were then the male 1500m runners ~18 pounds a man! At 160 pounds a piece the male 800m runners are large--compared to distance runners.

Also interesting is that the 1500m and 5000m runners were roughly the same height, but the 5000m runners were about 4 pounds leaner.

The 10,000m guys are rail thin.

21 years ago 09/15/2002 4:40am EDT

re: ET

very interesting. Good post. Its also interesting to see how 10,000m runners are lighter than marathon runners on average. Hmm, maybe I could throw discus instead of running the marathon........

21 years ago 09/15/2002 5:02am EDT

re: XCpotential

I was beating myself up trying to run 5 and 10K's when my brudda says "Dude you look more like an 800 guy. Check it out." I jumped into all-comer's 800's and instantly was beating guys who handed it to me every time we raced the longer stuff. My height/weight? 62"/159, exactly the same as those Oly guys.

Now, if only I can get within ten seconds of the guys who are on that chart....

21 years ago 09/15/2002 5:10am EDT

re: ET

Just noticed that the statistics came only ffrom entrants from western countries. No Africans, Asians, etc.. So grain of salt: the true figures for Olympians are probably much lower, once you throw in all of those 5"4" 112 lb Kenyan/Eth dudes. But among us U.S./ Euro guys, the stats are probably pretty accurate.

21 years ago 09/15/2002 5:33am EDT

re: Nice Chart

It would be interesting to see the average ht&wt of the african entrants.

I run the 800m too (and am not east african:)and found it interesting that I fit the profile almost exactly at 73.5" and 163lbs.

21 years ago 09/15/2002 10:25am EDT

re: ET

typo: shoulda been 72"/159 in my first post.

21 years ago 09/15/2002 11:28am EDT

re: Nice Chart

Just shows that the 800m is really a power and strength game, these guys are much bigger and stronger than their 1500m counterparts - OK, I am not generalising BUT this is talking about AVERAGES - so maybe we are. When you are coming into the straight in a 1min43 race or a 1min45 race off a 54 - its the man who is muscularily strongest who will win every time.

21 years ago 09/15/2002 3:04pm EDT

re: Juice

I would just point out seb coe and wilson kipketer as not fitting that trend. neither of them were to bad at the 800m. mutola would kick the crap out of both of them in a dark alley.

21 years ago 09/15/2002 3:37pm EDT

re: ET

ET, I've gotta say this is a really piss poor study, especially from a PHD. I'd like to see a MEANINGFUL study , lets say one that compare the average height/weight of all of the quaterfinalists, semifinalist and finalist. Something that we could really bite our teeth into.

You should do it, ET!

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