Great races won by running from the front from the start

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12 years ago 07/01/2011 11:17am EDT

re: ASU GUY

Ngugi didn't lead from the start. He and the rest of the field jogged for the first 1000m and then he ran hard for 800m. It was brilliant running but it is a different tactic than taking out hard from the start.Running hard from the gun makes everyone else's tactics easy. The race strings out and people can run. Putting a hard move in the middle is much harder to deal. Some people respond to the move. Others don't and you can get a bit of traffic jam

ASU GUY wrote:
Timmy Jenkins wrote:
Ngugi 1984 Olympics 5000
It was the 1988 Olympic 5000 and is fantastic front running.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 11:23am EDT

re: Andy Warhole

Andy Warhole wrote:
Randy Oldman wrote:
Paula Radcliffe, New York, New York.
Hear. Hear. Paula is a joy to watch. Not only can she take the lead, but she can finish the race, too.

When was the last time she finished a race?

12 years ago 07/01/2011 11:25am EDT

re: SamsonKim?

Herb Elliot.

Olympic 1500 final. Ran away from everyone.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 11:33am EDT

re: SamsonKim?

I know this was a HS Race, but Amy Weissenbach's win this year at the CA State Meet in the 800m at 2:02.04 was sick, and she led wire to wire.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 11:47am EDT

re: dasfsd

I was lucky to be able to witness the 1987 world championships when Kenyan Paul Kipkoech had the incredible courage to run from the front and win the 10,000 m gold medal. He may not have led from the gun but I do recall him taking off after about 1,600m and hammering a 4:14 for the next 1,600. The Africans were not as dominant at that time and championship racers were primarly won by kickers such as Alberto Cova from Italy who won both the '83 WC and the '84 Olympic gold medals.

•10,000 meters

GOLD Paul Kipkoech, KEN 27:38.63

SILVER Francesco Panetta, ITA 27:48.98

BRONZE Hansjorg Kunze, GDR 27:50.37

12 years ago 07/01/2011 12:33pm EDT

re: jimmy joe the ticket tax man

jimmy joe the ticket tax man wrote:
German Fernandez winning the NCAA 1500m was a really impressive front-running effort, beautifully executed.

Paula Ivan,

Women's 1500m Olympic Champion 1988

The video is apparently not on youtube anymore, but here is the 3000m that came first, and probably decided the way she ran the 1500m. This 1500m was one of the all time great races.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihI4MZAF2ZU

12 years ago 07/01/2011 12:46pm EDT

Lincoln High Runner3 wrote:
Lol I was in this one 1,000m indoor race and Im just a 210 800m runner and so was the rest of the runners in my heat which was one of the slowest heats of the meat and this one guy in are race just took off from the gun and we were all like what the heck is he doing in the slow heat? and he ended up running like 235 for the 1,000m when the rest of us were just running 250 or so, I got second and was wayyyyy behind this guy it was kind of impressive but i don't know why he was in are heat since he was so much better then the rest of us and he had to have known that he was going to be better then us when he put down his seed time when he signed up to race, maybe he thought he was in worst shape then he was sense it was an early season race or he was just coming back from injury or something like that and he just ran alot faster then he thought he would but then why would he run away from us from the beginning like that instead of going out conservative and then pushing the pace when he realized he felt good and could run faster than he thought before? Maybe he just thought it would be fun to blow away some people he knew he could beet and his coach let him get into a slow heat just so he could do it but why wouldn't he or his couch want him to run against good competition since he's obviously a very good runner? He could have maybe even won the fast heat if he tryed so why would he just beat a bunch of 210 800m guys when he could have won the whole meat? But it was kind of cool to run against some body so fast since 235 for the 1,000m is almost 2 flat pace for the 800m and noone on my team can even run that fast for 800m so even though he beat me it was cool just to be on the track with someone so fats.
But anyway thats my example of some one winning a race by leading from the start

Incredible achievement in spelling and punctuation.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 12:57pm EDT

re: Interest Ed

Thinking of recent championship-level races, Bungei's Olympic win in '08 and Malaudzi's WC win the next year are both good examples of veteran runners finally winning the big one by going wire-to-wire in the 800. I was particularly impressed how Bungei was able to negative split, running a sub-52 last lap, while staying in front the whole time.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 1:42pm EDT

re: My Name is Judge

The Tom Byers race is funny. The field was so stacked that nobody took him seriously, out front. By the time they figured out that he might actually run away, he was too far away and tying up.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3djhvmhFXc

12 years ago 07/01/2011 2:19pm EDT

re: kudzurunner

12 years ago 07/01/2011 2:52pm EDT

re: Flagpole

Flagpole wrote:
The Wurth-Thomas thread made me think of this.
I can think of two off the top of my head:
Pete Pfitzinger's trials marathon win
Dave Moorcroft's then WR in the 5,000
Any more?

Not to be a kill job but Pete Pfitzinger wasn't even in the lead pack for the first half of the '84 trials, and took the lead at 14 miles. A long way from home but not leading all the way.

My vote is for Ngugi in '88, or Radcliffe's 30:0's run at the european champs.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 3:40pm EDT

re: Dingler

No, Keino's countryman Ben Jipcho set a fast early pace to help Keino beat Ryun in the high altitude (which Ryun claims Jipcho later apologized to him for, as one is not supposed to run as a team in the Olympics)

Juantorena in the 1976 800 pretty much led from the gun (maybe did not hold the lead for just a few yards early on).

I believe Shorter in 1972 when wire to wire in the marathon

[quote]Dingler wrote:

Kip Keino 1968 Olypic 1500m

12 years ago 07/01/2011 4:26pm EDT

re: zbt

Byers was the rabbit and supposed to drop out. The others knew this. Also, according to those in the race, the split-timer was reading the pack Byer's splits leading them to possibly believe that he was running insane splits. I say possibly because I like to think runners of that caliber can read pace better than that. I heard that Byers was blacklisted as a rabbit and had trouble getting in races for awhile for failing to drop out as instructed.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 6:03pm EDT

re: Flagpole

How about David Kimani and Eliud Njubi down in Furman, NCAA's 2001?

12 years ago 07/01/2011 6:10pm EDT

re: Flagpole

Flagpole wrote:
Pete Pfitzinger's trials marathon win

No. He took the lead after halfway, was passed by Salazar in the last 150 meters and then kicked away for the win.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 10:32pm EDT

re: Timmy Jenkins

Timmy Jenkins wrote:
Ngugi 1984 Olympics 5000

12 years ago 07/01/2011 10:38pm EDT

re: zbt

zbt wrote:
I believe Shorter in 1972 when wire to wire in the marathon

Went to the front around 15km IIRC.

12 years ago 07/01/2011 11:31pm EDT

re: SamsonKim?

SamsonKim? wrote:
Andy Warhole wrote:
Hear. Hear. Paula is a joy to watch. Not only can she take the lead, but she can finish the race, too.
When was the last time she finished a race?

Her last race.

12 years ago 07/02/2011 1:57am EDT

re: Flagpole

Wilfred Bungei: 800m, Beijing, 2008

12 years ago 07/02/2011 10:17am EDT

re: polish guy

Liz McColgan - 1991 World Championship 10,000m in Tokyo. She ran away from a top class field in opressive heat.

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