So, is there any man able to do it? There's no question that Bekele can break the women's world records from the 800 to the marathon, but can he also run faster than 10.49/21.34/47.7 in the sprints? What about other elites? Could El G or some other middle distance runner do it?
el g, kipketer, webb?
Aouita could've, I bet. Same for Dixon. 10.49 & 21:34 are not legit, though.
There is no way they could have run 10.49, but the same goes for a legal FloJo so..... what is the next best Women's mark?
i heard it wrote:
el g, kipketer, webb?
El G might be able to do it, but I doubt Webb's getting under 2:15 for the marathon.
fact check wrote:
i heard it wrote:el g, kipketer, webb?
El G might be able to do it, but I doubt Webb's getting under 2:15 for the marathon.
Webb would have an easier time running under 2:15 than breaking the 100 meter record.
wowzers wrote:
There is no way they could have run 10.49, but the same goes for a legal FloJo so..... what is the next best Women's mark?
Well lets see, according to the Letsrun User handbook:"To find the fastest non-doping mark you have to look for the fastest white person who comes from an English speaking country."
It would need to be a middle distance guy with great speed and endurance. Here is my list:
Webb, Aouita, El G, Ngeny, Coe, Kipketer, Baala, Ramzi.
I doubt if any of them are going much under 11s for 100m or 22 for the 200m. They are all mid 46 400 meter runners. Maybe 46 flat if you factor in they didn't run many 400m in peak shape.. If they could run sub 21.5, I would expect them to be closer to 45 given they are distance runners. The guys that can run sub 46 (Evertt for example) tended to really struggle over 1500 so I would image they would die trying to do the 10k.400m-marathon is real easy. I bet there are dudes you never heard of that can do it.
only a few could wrote:
It would need to be a middle distance guy with great speed and endurance. Here is my list:
Webb, Aouita, El G, Ngeny, Coe, Kipketer, Baala, Ramzi.
I think Kipketer would have the best chance at it.
If anyone the Ramzi although think the 100m might be to fast, he could prob do 200m upwards.
obrisk wrote:
wowzers wrote:There is no way they could have run 10.49, but the same goes for a legal FloJo so..... what is the next best Women's mark?
Well lets see, according to the Letsrun User handbook:"To find the fastest non-doping mark you have to look for the fastest white person who comes from an English speaking country."
Uh, do you know anything about the women's 100m WR? It was run a woman who was almost undeniably dirty as shit under illegal wind conditions. The device that measures wind speed malfunctioned during her race and read 0.00 so the time was allowed, but it had been blowing well over 2.0m/s all day. There's a video of it on youtube.
Most of the women's records are from druggies. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
André Bucher would be pretty close.
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=20036/index.html
I thought I saw a sub 22 for Bucher before but it doesn't look like it's on there. Borzakovskiy has a 22.56 listed. Ovett had good range too.
Bucher is dying pretty quick as the distance goes up. We can find a bunch of guys that will run 47s 400ms and 2:15 marathons . Getting that 21.3 is going to be hard.Maybe if you could train for 1 year to be a sprinter and then switch back to distance but I sort of doubt it.
swiss gentleman wrote:
I thought I saw a sub 22 for Bucher before but it doesn't look like it's on there. Borzakovskiy has a 22.56 listed. Ovett had good range too.
no way any of the guys mentioned could run 10.4. No way.
It could be done but it would have to be done over a very long stretch of time. Start out as a sprinter and transition up like Jelimo. Over a twenty year stretch some of these guys could have handled all the distances.
nick symmonds could take the 100m and i think with a change in training he could get the 10k, but the half and marathon would be really tough.
Until someone comes up with a guy that can run 10.4 and a 29 min 10k, I think this answer to this question is no.
defeating the spam wrote:
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southern guy wrote:
nick symmonds could take the 100m and i think with a change in training he could get the 10k, but the half and marathon would be really tough.
Oh God, another Nick Symmonds whore.