OED wrote:
How many on that list are actually Americans? I thought Richard Kiplagat and Kip Kangogo were Kenyans.
Right, a bunch are not Americans. I only had an hour to do this, and I figured that I had missed quite a few American runners' performances anyway, so I simply left the foreigners in the mix. This was not an exact science, obviously, just an 'order of magnitude' exercise.
wilcat... wrote:
I can name 20 guys off the top of my head who have run a 5k faster than the cut off for this list...that's why I assume it is for a finite period of time; ie, 1995-2006? or something?
Yes this is 2006 only.