World: Bolt, Bekele, or Geb
US:???????
World: Bolt, Bekele, or Geb
US:???????
world: kenenisa bekele
US: Gay, Ritz
Men
World: Bekele
US: Meb
Women (tougher)
World: Ndereba, Radcliffe, Diaba....hard to choose
US: Deena, Shalane
dibaba
double world champ in 5 and 10k
double olympic gold 5 and 10 k
5k world record
3 cross country
i think its not even close ... radcliffe has done little the last 3 years and ndebera is impressive but does not come close to dibaba. dibaba will run 2:13 ..1:04 29:30 and 14:06 8:10
mark my words
Men
World: Bekele
US: MEB (Lagat maybe, but he only has half a decade for the US)
Women
World: Dibaba
US: Shalane
Radcliffe - 2:15 Marathon - Still Amazing - Greatest Performance of the Decade - Man or Woman
Men-World: Gebrselassie, Bekele. Maybe Tergat (but that might be swayed by pre-2000 success).
Men-U.S: Meb, Angelo Taylor (400/400H only but international success, longevity. He's kind of forgotten.)Broe (not really but I thought I'd throw it out there).
Women-World: Radcliffe. 2:15 is ridiculous. Not to mention the 2nd and 3rd fastest times as well.
Women-U.S: Kastor, Flanagan, Felix..... Toss up?
It's not even close...........Osama Ben Ladin, he has been running since 2001 and NOBODY can catch him.
Bekele
5000m Junior Silver Medalist 2000
XC Junior World Champion 2001
XC Short Race Silver Medalist 2001
XC Short and Long Course Champion 2002
XC Short and Long Course Champion 2003
10000m World Champion 2003
XC Short and Long Course Champion 2004
5000m Olympic Silver Medalist 2004
10000m Olympic Gold Medalist 2004
XC Short and Long Course Champion 2005
10000m World Champion 2005
XC Short and Long Course Champion 2006
10000m World Champion 2007
XC Senior Race Champion 2008
5000m Olympic Gold Medalist 2008
10000m Olympic Gold Medalist 2008
5000m World Champion 2009
10000m World Champion 2009
World Records in the 5000m and 10000m outdoors. World bests in the 2000m, two mile and 5000m indoors. The guy has been a stud this whole decade, no one even compares or comes anywhere close.
world/decade, my vote goes to:
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US - Hall or Meb
World - Bekele hands down
Old_Steepler wrote:
Radcliffe - 2:15 Marathon - Still Amazing - Greatest Performance of the Decade - Man or Woman
Plenty of people have run faster than that. Don't give me this "man or woman" shit.
The decade ends at the end of next year. Why don't we wait until then?
In terms of U.S runner of the decade...
Here's a longshot...
Bryan Clay.
World Champion 2006
World indoor 2008
Olympic Silver 2004
Olympic Gold 2008
Other major championship medals...
The only thing holding him back is the fact that running is his weakest discipline...
But he has won much much much more major championships than any other american athlete over the last 10 years on track.
Beatles Fan wrote:
The decade ends at the end of next year. Why don't we wait until then?
No actually 2000-2009 is 10 years. Next year will be the beginning of the next decade.
US male distance runner is Meb, hands down. Olympic Silver, NYC winner, Boston 3rd, AR 10K, Too many US road and track top 3 finishes to list, 2 olympic teams. No one else has come close.
Clay is a good one for Track athlete.
All runners, sprinter, mid, long distance, field events? Too big to get my head around so I can't even compare a shot putter to a marathoner.
World is either Bekele or Geb. No one else comes close when you factor in titles, records and having done it for all of the (10 year span).
If Bekele had done even one successful marathon, I think he would get the nod. For me their track credentials are close, but with Geb you add a whole extra dimension with the marathon.
VF Runner wrote:
World is either Bekele or Geb. No one else comes close when you factor in titles, records and having done it for all of the (10 year span).
If Bekele had done even one successful marathon, I think he would get the nod. For me their track credentials are close, but with Geb you add a whole extra dimension with the marathon.
I'm a big Geb fan (GOAT), but if winning is what matters, no one is even in the same universe as Bekele. Doesn't he have somewhere north of 20 world and olympic championships?
As for extra dimensions outside of track..sure Geb has marathon (and no world or oly titles), while Bekele has XC (and something like 10 titles there).
Distance:
1990-1999: Geb
2000-2009: Bekele
1990-2009: Geb
Sprints:
1990-1999: M Johnson
2000-2009: Bolt
Women Distance:
1990-1999: Pippig ?
2000-2009: Paula