I am happy to see the women running sub 30 and approaching Wang's record.
Also I think it is possible to break for any of the women currently under 30 minutes.
I am happy to see the women running sub 30 and approaching Wang's record.
Also I think it is possible to break for any of the women currently under 30 minutes.
Wow, all the Ethiopians running under 30... Dibaba, Melkamu, now Defar (and Abegeylesse has Ethiopian connections). Like someone said, there was that race in Europe (Leveun?) where the Africans just totally dominated and there were 15 under 15 minutes in the 5k... a turning point race for the African domination?
This just shows Radcliffe and Flanagan are just genetic freaks... for every one of those the Africans have many more..
wow.... wrote:
Wow, all the Ethiopians running under 30... Dibaba, Melkamu, now Defar (and Abegeylesse has Ethiopian connections). Like someone said, there was that race in Europe (Leveun?) where the Africans just totally dominated and there were 15 under 15 minutes in the 5k... a turning point race for the African domination?
This just shows Radcliffe and Flanagan are just genetic freaks... for every one of those the Africans have many more..
i was looking at progression of ethiopian woman marathoners by year under 2:30.
1997- ethiopia had 1 woman under 2:30
1998-1
1999-3
2000-4
2001-4
2002-6
2003-4
2004-6
2005-7
2006-7
2007-7
2008-13
2009-19 under 2:30 so far with LOTS of marathons to go.
japan woman have (now shared with ethiopia) the record having 19 woman under 2:30 in 2 different years.
2:30 is not a great time, but it shows quality depth has increased a lot in the last 2 years. add this to the domination of the 5 and 10k and especially cross country, it appears the african woman will dominate the 3k-marathon justlike their men do in a few years.
deepred wrote:
yes maybe in few years when they move up
But i honestly believe that Wangs world 10k record
29:31:78 will go in the next 2 or 3 years
I believe that Defar and Dibaba are probably
already capable maybe not Melakamu.
I sure hope they don't wait til they're struggling to break 32min before they move up to the marathon. I'd like to see them go for it much sooner than later, whle they still have that snap, crackle, and pop in their young, speedy legs.
she ran 2 48 last km and closed last 400 in about 61seconds so she is certainly capable of smashing 30mins in the future. the weather was not great in Birmingham with rain and wind.