Men's Sprints: Tim Montgomery
Women's Sprints: Marion Jones
Men's Distance: KK-in advance of a great race he will run in Chicago like he always does.
Women's Distance: Suzy-like you didn't expect this from me, but I don't see a legit arguement anyone else could make.
what about krumenacker? (sorry sp.)
800m-1:43 1500m- 3:31?
Meb (AR) had a decent season as well
3:31 and 1:43 are very respectable, but they can't really compete with a world marathon record against 2 all-time greats.
Womens distance, does the name Nicole Teter ring a bell.
Mens Sprints- Tim Montgomery with either Bernard Williams or Coby Miller in second
Womens Sprints- Marion or Gail Devers(if you count hurdles as sprints)
Mens Distance- Krummenacker and KK tie, since Krumm had a long, strong season and KK really only had one good race which turned out to be a WR. Meb is in third with nobody else really close at all.
Womens Distance- It looked like Teter early on, but Suzy had a better second half than Nicole. Its good to see that Regina did not do anything to make her elgible to be in the conversation.
Krummernacker did drop some solid times this summer, but I think KK will obviously do something special again in Chicago which will easily warrant that.
Teter, she had a few good races also, and she is relatively new to the fasttt scene, but she never ran that fasttt in the 1500m and was hampered by the injury there the 2nd half of the season. What SFH has done in the last 6 weeks has been amazing-pure and simple, when was the last time any American woman finished #2 in the world(narrowly missed #1) in any event over 400m?
WE HAVE A WEIRD CASE HERE:
marion jones the last 4-5 years have seen her dominating women100m and always get her chunk and share of the 50kg gold every year.
But ironically, she performs the WORST among all dominators who are usually WR holders in grandprix. Her 10.68 is 1.02% worse than flojo's WR of 10.49 in 1988.
mutola 1:55 is only worse 0.98% than jarmila's WR of 1:53.
Yet jones is the best performer through the year consecutively.
when she ever break that barrier.....
NOLIMIT wrote:
Krummernacker did drop some solid times this summer, but I think KK will obviously do something special again in Chicago which will easily warrant that.
Teter, she had a few good races also, and she is relatively new to the fasttt scene, but she never ran that fasttt in the 1500m and was hampered by the injury there the 2nd half of the season. What SFH has done in the last 6 weeks has been amazing-pure and simple, when was the last time any American woman finished #2 in the world(narrowly missed #1) in any event over 400m?
What? you're saying suzy is close to being ranked #1 in the world? You've got to be kidding. That Turkish chick is the surefire #1.
you lose your objectivity by saying such.
somebody mentioned KK only running one race and Krum running a whole season. look at the events. KK cannot be expected to run too often if he is rnning 2:05's for a marathon.
I agree...it is a pychological game when competing with Marion. I think the other gals lose the race before the gun...they don't believe they could beat her. In the next few years someone is going to step up and take all the glory away from her. The next Flojo will be around the corner and Marion will be Evelyn Ashford.
sevatonic wrote:
WE HAVE A WEIRD CASE HERE:
marion jones the last 4-5 years have seen her dominating women100m and always get her chunk and share of the 50kg gold every year.
But ironically, she performs the WORST among all dominators who are usually WR holders in grandprix. Her 10.68 is 1.02% worse than flojo's WR of 10.49 in 1988.
mutola 1:55 is only worse 0.98% than jarmila's WR of 1:53.
Yet jones is the best performer through the year consecutively.
when she ever break that barrier.....
Considering the doubt around Flojo's 10.49 it's quite likely that Flojo's 10.61 is the 'real' record. That makes Marion's 10.70 PB closer although you can workout the percentages.
On the men's side its easily Khalid Khannouchi with his
WR beating Haile and Paul. Khalid Khannouchi victory was
so impressive he can run 2:10 and place 5th and still be
in Track and Field News top 3 for the marathon end of the year rankings. Chicago will have the honor of seeing Khalid post another fast time and make him the first American to rank #1 in the marathon since Joan Benoit Samuelson.
Honorable Mention: Krummenaker (800/1500), Meb (10,000m),
and Tim Montgomery (100m)
On the women's side Gail Devers (100H) is slightly ahead
of Deena Drossin (10,000m); however, if Deena popped a 2:25
in Chicago or better she'll get my nod over Gail.
Honorable Mention: Suzy Favor (1500m), A. Norgren-Mahon (HT), and predictable Marion Jones (100m/200m/400m).
Here you go objectivity.....a few races does not a season ranking make....Ayhan was fast, but didn't run enough to rank highly.
i dont see any indication of jones running fast in the future.
and mo greene, if he keeps going like this, in 2-3 years, he's done.
How about KK getting performance of the year, he had the best race not the best season!
This is really an interesting topic. There are a lot of outstanding performances to base one's opinion on. Personally I think that Tim Montgomery had the performance of the year with krummenacker coming in with a close second. 9.78 over Chambers, Greene and a whole slew of the world's best sprinters is no chopped liver. On the other hand Krummenacker has been on fire this whole year. Starting in indoors with some impressive 800 victories, and an American indoor record for the 1k(2:18) he really hit it bard running(3:31). KK has a good season so far, and he has beaten Tergat and Geb but Krummenacker has also beaten some extremely good runners as well(William Chirchir,Leban Rotich ect.) I think that all three have had excellent seasons thus far but with his being tied with El Guerrouj and Sanchez for #1 status in the world cup I would have to give my vote to Tim Montgomery on the men's side and to Marion Jones on the womens side, due to the fact that she is #1 on the womens side. Man this was a good year for the americans, lets see what the future has in store. Best wishes to everyone competing this year in Cross (No Division Excluded)
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-WB-
lets assume, for sanities sake that the "season" is in reference to the summer road races and meets. If this is the case then Khalid Khannouchi did not even perform nearly as well as David Krummenaker. Granted Khalid will probably roll in Chicago, but we will have to wait and see on that point.
Dave
Distance: How about Ritz? No fantstic records, but 13:26 for 5k as a freshman in college is pretty fantastic.
yeah i'd say krummenacker. he made such great strides--with the 1:43 like you said.
he'll have the AR and maybe WR in 800m by next year.
i think american marathoners will be lacking since KK got his citizenship, theres no hunger for sub 2:10 cos they know that theres one guy can definately do it : KK.