who is your favorite miler of all time?

Coe

Ryun

Elliot

Steve Ovett. The definition of a BAMF.

Mary Slaney

Suzy Favor Hamilton

Shannon Rowbury

Jordan Hasay

Jim Ryun>Marty Liquori>Steve Scott>Alan Webb

I'm a product of my time, so I guess I'd say Ryun.

Not sure whom else I'd pick. Hard to pick any of the women, because I don't have confidence that any of the "biggies" was clean; might have to dig pretty far back to find my other favorites among the men.

Walter George and Jack Lovelock, maybe?

i forgot to mention

kip keino 1968 1500m champ

peter snell too

Sir Rodger Bannister

Ovett.

No accident he was universally liked in the UK, much more so than many of his peers. A great runner and a man of character.

bubba smith wrote:

my favorites

John Walker -

Steve Scott

Hicham el G

I'm with you -- Walker. Not saying he was the best, just my favorite for his attitude. Kip Keino second. I never rooted for him back then because I thought he was a prima donna, but over time I have come to appreciate Sebastian Coe.

Oranges wrote:

Sir Rodger Bannister

"Roger"

Bannister > Walker > El G > Coghlan > Scott

Ovett. Knew how to win.

Herb Elliott olympic gold, world recored and undeeted career what else would you want!

Marcus O'Sullivan! The man was born to run the mile!

Walker

Morceli

Ryun

El Guerrouj

Bayi

Aouita

also some honorable mentions

Scott

Cram

Ovett

Holman

Crabb

Prefontaine

Lacy

Sherer

Scott Daggot

jim spivey. i like the way raced: prepared; ready to throw-down.

I'm a Morceli guy too.

yea, he is sort of in El Guerrouj's shadow much of the time...he is left in the gap between Coe and Cram's era and in 97 when El G took up the reins. He was unbeatable during that time though...almost as strong as Hicham but with a slightly better kick...3 dominating world championship wins closing in 50-51; world records at 1500m, the mile (by 2 seconds!), 2000m, 3000m; beating the worlds best 5k runners in 13:03 with a sub 52 second last lap and an Olympic Gold to cap it off means he was very, very good in his own right.

He clearly liked winning, and didn't really know what to do after El Guerrouj started beating him in '97 and later. Walking across the line in the '97 world champs and giving away the bronze lowers my opinion of him a bit but he is still one of my favorite runners of all time.