AJEE WILSON stuns field runs 2:00.91 to World Junior 800m GOLD Medal, stay overseas to break HSR

YES it's about time! She's staying overseas to break Kim Gallaghers HSR? I'm pretty sure marks count until Aug 13 so she have plenty of time and attempts.

You heard it hear first Ajee Wilson 1:58.32 HSR, AJR

VIPAM wrote:

My goodness what does Ajee have to do to grab headlines on Letsrun?

I had a feeling I knew the answer to this...which was confirmed when I did a quick google search. The answer to the question: "what does Ajee have to do to grab headlines on Letsrun?" is this: be white, unfortunately. If Ajee Wilson was white, she'd get the full star treatment. Typical LR racism. But really.

Wilson ran the entire race on the outside, in lane 2 or close to it. So she probably covered 800m in under 2:00. She looked tremendous in this race, and if she gets on the rail she's capable of taking down Gallagher's record.

I agree and she's already overseas! She certainly seems capable of running 1:59.50 now after the ease she ran 2:00.91 to win Gold.

Ajee Wilson and her mother earlier this year stated, "she always only runs as fast as she needs to win."

She stated last year she was pointing to World Juniors and is now in peak form and certainly capable of breaking the HSR of 2:00.07 if she gets in 2-3 decently paced GP circuit 800m races!!!

I'm really hoping to see her victory on the front page later tonight.

Seriously if Ajee stays overseas and runs a few races she certainly can run AT LEAST 1:59.25 and break the 1000m, 1500m, Mile HSR as well.

WTF were's this news on Letsrun? My goodness. She has to stay overseas and get the record- run as many meets as you can break the HSR 800m!!!!!!!

how about the honorary black page? this is big.

This was no stunner at all, considering her victory at World Youth last year and she'd been overhyped relative to her abilities in the past with vociferous fans, but what she has proven in the last 370 days is that she is a winner, taking both World Youth and World Junior championships and this was under a second from Kim Gallagher's longstanding American record. The British girl she beat by .05 s is only 17, a year younger, so is better at that age than Wilson, but Wilson has great speed (54.5 pr from 2? years ago) and is clearly a championship runner and it will be very interesting to see how quickly she reaches the American elite stage in the next few years. If she goes under 2 this year, she'll contend for American titles throughout college. In fact, I bet she turns pro well before college graduation.

The top athlete in tonight's competition, though, was arguably Hamza Driouch in the men's 1500m, who seems to have run a 52.7 third lap enroute to a 1:36 last 700m (splits, the Kenyan 61, Driouch 2:03, Driouch 2:56 (1200m)!, 3:39 1500m, and a 1.4 second win. Driouch is going to be challenging Kiprop and Kiplagat within the next couple years.

Last night's best might have been Jocko Gill(?), the Aussie shot putter, who threw 22.20m.

Don't try to diminish Ajee Wilson performance you loser! Overhyped how when very few posters even mention her this year with all the hype on Mary Cain (who is an awesome athlete as well). You don't have to put Ajee Wilson or any other athlete down to speak highly of others.

Ajee was DEFINITELY not favored to win the World Junior Gold medal so her doing so and being an American in such a fast time is much more newsworthy then a 1500m win by an athlete who was capable of much faster. The 1500m deserves congratulations but he did what many knew he was capable of with his 3:50 mile ability; however, Ajee came into this competition final not even being the one of the 3 fastest!!!!

douglas burke wrote:

how about the honorary black page? this is big.

eaton didn't get it so she shouldn't either. But both are so deserving. What a run. I hope she can get in some low key meets in belgium and get that record.

You all need to calm the f down. Give them a chance to update the site, for God's sake. Didn't she only run this earlier today? I'm sure they'll call it out within a few hours when they make their nightly update.

Watch your language. That is exactly what I was saying. In past years, when she was still FAR from Gallagher's record, there was continual talk from her fans that she was on the verge of breaking it each year. If you could read better, you'd see that I praised her quite significantly for her championship ability. I expected her to win, as I expected Driouch to win, but I never expected a sub 53 third lap from Driouch yet. He might break 3:30 THIS year.

You guys are beyond pathetic. Do you think the Bros. Johnson have nothing better to do than update their homepages minute to minute??? Their readership have them out numbered by about 50,000 to 3. They'll get around to giving Ajee her due accolades when they get off the toilet, get out of the shower, return home from a dinner date, wake up, get in from a run, return from the dentist, finish their grocery shopping, or whatever from a list of hundreds that they could be doing at the time. Just because none of us have real lives, don't expect the guys who run this site to be similar losers. UGH

You guys are beyond pathetic. Do you think the Bros. Johnson have nothing better to do than update their homepages minute to minute??? Their readership have them out numbered by about 50,000 to 3. They'll get around to giving Ajee her due accolades when they get off the toilet, get out of the shower, return home from a dinner date, wake up, get in from a run, return from the dentist, finish their grocery shopping, or whatever from a list of hundreds that they could be doing at the time. Just because none of us have real lives, don't expect the guys who run this site to be similar losers. UGH

It's evident they've gone home for now. The Ajee Wilson story just hit at the wrong point in their update cycle. Nothing personal.

Don't think I realized how cute AW is..

Great run Ajee! Way to represent the USA! Also congrats to Brianna Nerud who took 5th in the 3000st in a HSR 10:00.8. Mary Cain is on deck in the 1500. Give us your best Mary!

Yeah that is amazing two high school athletes coming so close to breaking such SIGNIFICANT barriers in their events. I actually think 4 US high school athletes should stay overseas after their World Jr event and compete in a few meets before returning home to take shots at HSRs.

JJJJJ

you can say you expected her to win AFTER the race but I surely didn't see any evidence of that on the threads before the race! Ajee focus was World Juniors and second she stated was the 2 minute barrier, so it will be interesting to see what races she runs overseas.

I agree! FRONT PAGE NEWS!!!! Nice Job Jersey Girl....