Abraham Chebii¡¯s finishing speed is renowned. His tremendous ability became obvious for the first time in a big international competition at the Grad Prix Final in 2002. He won the 3,000 metres in Paris and covered the last lap in 50.68 seconds. That is a superb split. If he would run two of these laps he would end up very close to the 800 metres world record.
Has anyone ever run a faster last lap in a distance race (3000-10.000)?
Ghost in Korea
might check some of ryun's last laps...or that big german that was also of the same era...
Rui Silva ran a 50.xx in the Athens 1500 final... Maybe someone knows the time to the hundredth?
His winning time in that 3000 was 8:33.42, I don't think it matters what the last lap was.
It matters because he was talking about phenomenal last laps (or any laps, I guess) in distance races. Why wouldn't that be worth talking about?
Jebediah Springfield wrote:Why wouldn't that be worth talking about?
What aren't you understanding about "8:33"?
He won, didn't he?
A sprinter on my HS team was caught smoking pot, my coach put him in the 3k. He split 49 low for his last lap after jogging every other lap. He wins this one.
hehateme wrote:
A sprinter on my HS team was caught smoking pot, my coach put him in the 3k. He split 49 low for his last lap after jogging every other lap. He wins this one.
Your coach has a good sense of humor. He should have made him eat a nice greasy fried pork sandwich (served in a dirty ashtray) before the race.
What punishment would a distance runner get? Would you have to do the Pole vault? 110 hurdles? Shotput?
what were the other splits of his 8:33?
I'm pretty sure Ryun actually split a 49, at least according to legend, at the end of a 1500 once.
the big swede wrote:
might check some of ryun's last laps...or that big german that was also of the same era...
Bodo Tummler?
He asked for last laps at the end of races 3,000-10,000 so all these last laps of 1500 races aren't relevant.
Thought Yifter was rumored to have run sub 50.
Don't know for a fact.
He did it's in his book. He would close in that kind of time quite a bit.
In the 1500m of either the World Athletics Final or the World Cup (can't remember which), Alex Kipchirchir ran a 49 second last lap and won in some ridiculously slow time, like 3:50 or something.
read wrote:
He asked for last laps at the end of races 3,000-10,000 so all these last laps of 1500 races aren't relevant.
Well maybe he just felt like sharing that with us.
Is that OK with you?
malmo wrote:
Jebediah Springfield wrote:Why wouldn't that be worth talking about?What aren't you understanding about "8:33"?
Between the wackos on the Sage thread and this Springfield character I have to assume that a new class of HS freshman has hit the cross country teams and web simultaneously to brandish their rather weak knowledge of the sport which goes back more than a week or two.
"Bodo Tummler?"
-BOOM!!!! nice job, lorenzo.
wasnt there a 1500 a little while ago (i know not 3k - 10 000) that daniel k komen closed in 49?? but it wound up being like a 3:51 or whatever.