I picked distance runners because that is a longer way to carry a longer frame. Not as much of an issue for the mile down. Mottram is 6'2" but what about taller than that?
Martii Vaino. (6'4")?
Jack Bachelor. (6'7")?
Peter Maher. (6'5")?
I picked distance runners because that is a longer way to carry a longer frame. Not as much of an issue for the mile down. Mottram is 6'2" but what about taller than that?
Martii Vaino. (6'4")?
Jack Bachelor. (6'7")?
Peter Maher. (6'5")?
Nick ROgers is 6'5" I think.
Chris Webber (Canadian) is 6'6".
Paul Ereng is 6'3" I think.
Graeme Fell was/is 6'3"
maybe kevin sullivan or mark fountain. perhaps tergat falls into the mix as well? i don't know heights just going off what i see in pics/tv.
ME!
Im 9'5"
psst...Alan Webb is the 5'9" midget.
Peter Maher - 6 foot 5
Peter was born in Canada and raised in Ireland. He had been a very successful underage athlete, but he stopped training, and over the years he ate junk food, smoked 3 packs a day, drank a lot of Guiness, and got his weight up to over 245 pounds (he is 6 foot 5). Peter lost over 100 pounds and went back to training. His personal best for the marathon was 2:11:46 at the London Marathon in 1991. He also placed 4th in the 1991 NYC marathon (2:11:55).
In an exclusive interview with The Kingdom in September 1988, Maher revealed his life was "a shambles" in the early 1980s. He was sitting on a bar stool in London watching Ireland's John Treacy compete in the Los Angeles Olympic marathon when he decided to get his life in order.
"I had become a big lump in so little time and after watching the Olympics I decided enough was enough," Maher told The Kingdom at the time. He subjected himself to a strict and demanding fitness routine and, in less than a year, he was winning major international tournaments before going on to represent Canada, the country of his birth, at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics
Why can't you just list one guy if you know his actual height compared to other guys?
There is this odd compulsion to list more than one person when it comes to matters like this.
It reminds me of threads like 'Who is the greatest Irish Runner of all time?" The opinions went from Coghlan to Treacy on down to the guy who ran into town and said all the potatoes were mushy.
not quite elite, but still 6'10"...
Wlan Aebb wrote:
ME!
Im 9'5"
psst...Alan Webb is the 5'9" midget.
actually, hes 5'8/
What about Don Kardong, he was pretty tall.
Elly Rono - 6'3" or 6'4"?
Kardong (6'2-3"?) takes it with his Montreal bronze (ipso facto)
Vainio was a convicted doper.
SMJO wrote:
Why can't you just list one guy if you know his actual height compared to other guys?.
But the thread title does say "Tallest Elite Distance Runners (plural)" ! IN general I agree that many times when someone asks for one thing and people give you more.
Sorry I didn't meet up today at the track meet, I bailed out early and forgot to tell Doug. (we were going to meet up today)
Elly Rono is just under 6'3", it came up last year and Ottawa, we stood back to back and he was less than 1/2 inch taller than me, I'm 6'2".
Kevin Sullivan is 6'1" I think.
I'm pretty sure this thread has been done before but I"m killing time until the police are on the grammy's
Good point about Vainio...
Totally forgot about Kardong. Bachelor was freakishly tall. Am i right about the 6'7" i saw?
sjc wrote:
maybe kevin sullivan or mark fountain. perhaps tergat falls into the mix as well? i don't know heights just going off what i see in pics/tv.
tergat is a towering 5'11"
Robert Cheryiot is 6'2"
Wilt Chamberlain ran some marathons- Anyone know what his times were?
He's 6'1", Tergat that is.