Runners with national records in every event from 1,500 to the marathon including the steeple?

Åland is chain of islands, whose population speaks primarily Swedish, has nominally been part of Finland, and autonomous since 1921. Population 28k, it sits in the north Baltic.

Similar to the Faroes - nominally independent, but effectively administered by a larger (Danish in the case of the Faroes) government.

Yeah, but not the country of Texas.

nieuw meiko wrote:

"So the reason I've never heard of the country of Aland is because it's not a country"

Ummm....ever hear of Texas?

What about Roger Soler? He ran at a reasonably elite level in all those events, if I recall correctly, held Peruvian national records in a bunch of them, and competed in the 5K at the Olympics in 1984. Maybe somebody in San Antonio can run by the store and ask him.

seen that several times - pretty brutal - but (maybe a small thing) the officials did a good job of handling the accident and assuring continuance of the race uninterrupted.

This seems like an extremely restrictive question simply because of the requirement of holding the steeplechase record. The steeple is a very niche event which countless runners may never compete in.

Rojo, perhaps there is a female out there?

silly old fossil wrote:

Ghost of Ashenfelter wrote:

How about Karel Lismont of Belgium? I'm just guessing, no time to research right now.

Ghost, are you kidding? Lismont was running during the time frame of Gaston Roelants and Emile Puttemants. Hardly think he would have a slew of records other than, possibly, the marathon.

Actually he ran after them as well. He ran in the 1984 Olympic Marathon. But, yes of course Puttemans was a WR setter in the 3k, 2Mi and 5k. He was close to the WR in the 10k.

Also, Lismont (and almost all who came before or after) would have a tough time beating the 1500 times of Ivo VanDamme (1976).

rojo wrote:

We received an email today that stated the American Patti Dillon once held the following road records:

"They were done on the roads. 5 miles, 10km, 15km, 10 miles, 20km, 13.1 miles. 30km, marathon. Didn't have 5k's then."

Pretty impressive. But once again, obviously no steeple.

So far no one has answered in the affirmative except maybe Aouita? Was his 8:21 the NR?

It was Aouita's ambition to hold ALL the WR's from 1500 to 10,000m. He said that he would leave the Steeple alone out of respect for his "good friend" Joseph Mahmoud.

He DID go on to set WRs at 1500, Mile, 2000, 3000, 2Mile, 5k ... and rank World Number 1 at 10,000 in 1986.

He never ran a marathon as far as I know.

And don't forget Rod Dixon

800m 1.47.6 through to winning NYC Marathon in 2:08 over 35 years ago... throw in a Olympic Bronze (PR 3:33) over 1500m for good measure...

None were National Records though as competed in the John Walker era and marathon was later to be found 100m short..

(not an answer to the OP, but still impressive range) ::

Viren simeltaneously held WR's in the 2 mile, 5k, and 10k. He also set a WR in the 25k. Had extremely good marathon potential too. He wouldve been close to holding the WR's 3k-marathon had he gone after times more (imo)

Times are pretty meh across the board but Libya's

Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi holds everything from the 1500 to the marathon (sans steeple)

1500 metres - 3:47.18 min (2000)

3000 metres - 8:07.16 min (1999)

5000 metres - 13:34.99 min (2000)

10,000 metres - 28:48.53 min (1999)

Half marathon - 1:02:39 hrs (1998)

Marathon - 2:13:33 hrs (2008)

Aouita never held the mile world record, that mark belonged to Crammie

Also not matching the OPs criteria, but Angolan runner João Baptista N'Tyamba helds 7 NRs from 800m to the Marathon:

1:47,54

2:18,82

3:39,54

7:58,50/7:53,72(i)

28:20,0/28:31,09(OF)

1:02:38

2:11:40

Webb probably had the talent to get every american record from 800m - 10,000m prior to 2010, had he trained with that in mind.

I know this is an old thread, but please, use the link to the original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_s6ahuPCwQ&safe=active

I'm pretty sure that Cierpinski held the 3k, 3k st, 10k and marathon records for E. Germany all at the same time. He almost certainly didn't hold the 1500 record and, after an embarrassing amount of time searching, I couldn't discover whether he had the 5000. I thought I'd throw his name out there just in case it jogged the memories of more knowledgeable men (and women...) than I.

OH... and if you throw out the marathon, didn't Keino have that distinction after Munich?

Link wrote:

I'm pretty sure that Cierpinski held the 3k, 3k st, 10k and marathon records for E. Germany all at the same time I.

100% positive he held none of those records.

in the ballpark... wrote:

at the time of his death, Steve Prefontaine held all the American records from the 2k to the 10k (no steeple).

there is no "American record" at 2k. If Pre was so great, you wouldn't be padding his resume with bullshit achievements.