What was the last performance by a US born distance runner better than Ritz's 5k?

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14 years ago 08/29/2009 9:34pm EDT

re: themanontherun

It sort of reminds of a mix of two things: Pre in the 72 Olympics in terms of not being intimidated at all of he's going up against. Problem is he ran total idiotic race even if it was courageous. Thats why I would then add David Wottle in the 800M of the 72 Olympics. Thats a race where Wottle fell so far behind that Jim McKay was wondering if something was wrong with him. But in fact that race had started at a furious pace and Wottle was just conserving his energy. He gradually moved up and passed people, then outkicked the leaders for gold when everyone else was dying.

14 years ago 08/29/2009 10:44pm EDT

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14 years ago 08/29/2009 11:16pm EDT

re: o.O

o.O wrote:
Shorter won in 1972

AMERICAN BORN

14 years ago 08/29/2009 11:33pm EDT

re: Ryan Foreman

Craig Virgin's World XC Wins---no doubt!

14 years ago 08/29/2009 11:34pm EDT

re: themanontherun

oscar moore was the the best afercan american to run distance perioiod i did studies on the runner

14 years ago 08/30/2009 10:35am EDT

re: fail

OK, I know that Frank Shorter was born in Germany, but why is it that people are jumping on anyone who mentions Shorter but are not responding to the Lagat posts?

Is it just that it's obvious that Lagat is Kenyan-born, while not everyone is aware that Shorter isn't American-born?

Anyway, it's all a technicality, like the arguments over whether 800m counts as a distance race. I'm ecstatic that Lagat is an American citizen now, and he's certainly not pulling a Brunei deal where he just wants to avoid the huge competition in Kenya. He belongs here. But that's not what the question was asking.

14 years ago 08/30/2009 2:30pm EDT

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Technicalities wrote:
OK, I know that Frank Shorter was born in Germany, but why is it that people are jumping on anyone who mentions Shorter but are not responding to the Lagat posts?
Is it just that it's obvious that Lagat is Kenyan-born, while not everyone is aware that Shorter isn't American-born?
Anyway, it's all a technicality, like the arguments over whether 800m counts as a distance race. I'm ecstatic that Lagat is an American citizen now, and he's certainly not pulling a Brunei deal where he just wants to avoid the huge competition in Kenya. He belongs here. But that's not what the question was asking.

I just skipped to the 3rd page so I didn't see any Lagat posts.

14 years ago 08/30/2009 3:04pm EDT

re: Shorter Than Frank

great post. Chapa was amazing !

Shorter Than Frank wrote:
not the last greatest performance, but one that is mentionable as a great american distance performance is rudy chapa's ar of 7:37 (1979)...i remember reading about it as a junior in high school when a buddy of mine brought to school a 1" x 2" clipping from the back page of the l.a. times (the day in results)...i believe chapa was just a junior at oregon at the time and wasn't far off of rono's wr of 7:32. what was he, all of 20-21 years of age? this guy's career was cut way too short due to his foot problems...heck, his 28:32 in h.s. was pretty impressive, too. just an amazing talent and such promise with those great early marks!! still one of my favorite all-time runners.

14 years ago 08/30/2009 3:13pm EDT

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14 years ago 08/30/2009 3:18pm EDT

re: fail

fail wrote:
I just skipped to the 3rd page so I didn't see any Lagat posts.

F**k you.

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