Dave Wottle 1972 Munich 800m Finals
One of the last qualifiers. Been injured before olympics.
Ran great race!
Dave Wottle 1972 Munich 800m Finals
One of the last qualifiers. Been injured before olympics.
Ran great race!
Geb's 2000 Olympic win in the 10000m over Tergat has to be one of the most impressive tactical and gutsy races of all time. In retrospect, Tergat was clearly in much better shape, but Geb managed to box in Tergat enough that he couldn't just run away with it.
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Sebastian Coe had great tactics over 1500M, but his tactics over 800M were certainly suspect as the WR holder. If we are hard on Webb today, imagine the 1980's and Sebastian Coe not winning Gold over 800M.
Well for Americans I would vote for Bob Kennedy.
won footlocker, won ncaa cross, and track, won usatf cross and track, and competed above his p.r.s and world cross and olympics.
he ran well at every level at championships races.
since he never lost a race, the obvious answer is Herb Elliot of Australia.
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Aouita and Virren were my first two thoughts when the question was posed.
They never seemed to be light-years ahead of their competitors in terms of ability or fitness, but tactically they seemed to always have a knack for coming through.
But I'm an idiot so I'm probably wrong.
There was this guy named Elliot his first name was Herb. Can anyone remember? He was dominant and used good tactics and I think he retired undefeated. Australia born he feared no runner.
For women Masterkova. She won big races and her tactics were
of a front runner. Get out ahead if you are the class of the field is the rule. She did.
easy answer.... wrote:
since he never lost a race, the obvious answer is Herb Elliot of Australia.
can you trolls read? The guy never lost a race. How many of you have no idea who Herb Elliot is? Be honest.
Indoors, where tactics are more important than outdoors, Eamon Coghlan was the best tactical miler ever, as well as being world record holder and Master's world record holder. And not just when to apply his dazzling acceleration -- he knew how to apply the well-placed elbow or hip check, too.
outdoors, in championship meets internationally, he was a horrible tactician. (see Montreal, Moscow).
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beat el g when it counted the most
yes but outdoors..... wrote:
outdoors, in championship meets internationally, he was a horrible tactician. (see Montreal, Moscow).
I think it was more he was just beaten by better runners. He was never the best miler of his period -- there were always better ones -- Bayi, Walker, Coe, Scott. But a testament to how good he was indoors was that he would beat superior milers who would beat him handily outdoors. In Scott's book The Miler he describes his frustration in constantly losing to Coughlan by the well-timed burst or elbow. Coughlan was more tentative outdoors, however, perhaps because he knew his indoor tactics would not be so effective.
the430miler wrote:
case.in.point wrote:Case in point:
Wilson Kipketer in 2000 800m olys.
Bekele in 2004 5000m olys.
Kipchoge in 2007 5000m WCs (sorry kip, you are not going to out-sprint a 3:26 miler in the last 200m of any race.)
Borzacovsky (sp?) in pretty much every race he runs.
kipketer doesnt have any tactics, because his race is only 800meters long. its a sprint and takes no mentallity or strategy.
bekele just has more natural talent than any other distant TRACK runner. this is why he wins, its not because of his tactics.
kipchoge has good tactics, but i think in his situation it comes down to experience. he's a little bit older than the other competitors and naturally smarter due to having already been throught the "school of hark knock" which i have stated several times on this website that experience is the best teacher.
not going to comment on borzacovsky.
if you want to know the answer, the answer is Paul Tergat. he has better tactics than any other runner, and he also has more natural ability and toughness. this is why he is and always will be the world record holder for the marathon. oh, and may i add, he held the world record for 10k longer than any other human being.
You were wrong about Lagat vs. Webb at Worlds, and you are wrong about almost everything you said here as well.
You are an idiot. Or a really good troll keeping up the illusion. If you are a troll, it is truly impressive.
I will bet you 100 million dollars that someone will break Tergat's marathon record. How bout it?
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easy answer.... wrote:since he never lost a race, the obvious answer is Herb Elliot of Australia.
can you trolls read? The guy never lost a race. How many of you have no idea who Herb Elliot is? Be honest.
well he never lost a 1500/mile race.