Marcus Lawler underlined his status as the fastest man in Ireland when he won the 100m at the Glo Health Irish U-23 Track and Field Championships in Tullamore.
The St Laurence O'Toole runner's time of 10.54 seconds put him well clear of Jonathan Browning who finished in 10.73 secs.
I guess that they don't have the right leg speed velocity.
There has never been a tradition of sprinting in Ireland or Northern Ireland. The world class people have tended to be middle distance runners. I will say this if Paul Hession was clean his 10.1X is a decent time.
What's the national record for the 5000m in Ghana?
its amazing the difference drugs make
Drugs,Drugs,Drugs! wrote:
There has never been a tradition of sprinting in Ireland or Northern Ireland. The world class people have tended to be middle distance runners. I will say this if Paul Hession was clean his 10.1X is a decent time.
I love how people think you need a tradition to excel at the most basic of all sports - sprinting. Every track athlete in the world would run the 100m if they could.
Personally if I had the choice I'd be a 400m 800m runner
rojo wrote:
Drugs,Drugs,Drugs! wrote:There has never been a tradition of sprinting in Ireland or Northern Ireland. The world class people have tended to be middle distance runners. I will say this if Paul Hession was clean his 10.1X is a decent time.
I love how people think you need a tradition to excel at the most basic of all sports - sprinting. Every track athlete in the world would run the 100m if they could.
1) A flat race over one arbitrary distance is no more basic than a flat race over another arbitrary distance.
2) Regularly suggested, this, and absolute nonsensical tosh. Maybe you yourself would have been a sprinter if you'd been faster and you're extrapolating.
Rojo in a thread last week didn't you say that everyone would run 1500m if they could because it is the most glamorous event?
Drugs,Drugs,Drugs! wrote:
There has never been a tradition of sprinting in Ireland or Northern Ireland. The world class people have tended to be middle distance runners. I will say this if Paul Hession was clean his 10.1X is a decent time.
If everyone was clean 10.1X would win a lot of races.
Hi Kim Collins!
it's amazing that you think that sprinters just appear on the world level without any training.
we've developed in more meaningful areas you unintelligent moron
Frankly, Ireland's national records aren't that great, nor that bad throughout the sprints and distances. 10.18/20.30/44.77 all compare favorably to many countries. 1:44.82 is not very impressive but well under the IAAF qualifier, similar to 3:33.5 enroute to mile, which is not bad, but certainly not great, and it's known as a country of milers (obviously, indoors is where Coghlan and O'Sullivan dominated). Now Mark Carroll's 7:30 is strong, just a bit behind Lagat's AR, and Cragg (South African, right?) ran 13:03, which is solid but again not great.
Event Record Athlete Date Meet Place Ref
100 m 10.18 (+1.9 m/s) Paul Hession 23 June 2007 Finland Vaasa, Finland
200 m 20.30 (+0.1 m/s) Paul Hession 21 July 2007 Republic of Ireland Dublin, Ireland
300 m 32.47 Paul Hession 12 June 2008 Golden Spike Ostrava Czech Republic Ostrava, Czech Republic
400 m 44.77 David Gillick 4 July 2009 Meeting de Atletismo Madrid Spain Madrid, Spain
600 m 1:16.14 Mark English 26 May 2015 Golden Spike Ostrava Czech Republic Ostrava-Vítkovice, Czech Republic [1]
800 m 1:44.82 David Matthews 5 September 1995 IAAF Grand Prix Italy Rieti, Italy
1000 m 2:17.58 David Matthews 9 September 1996 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
1500 m 3:33.5+ Ray Flynn 7 July 1982 Bislett Games Norway Oslo, Norway
Mile 3:49.77 Ray Flynn 7 July 1982 Bislett Games Norway Oslo, Norway
2000 m 4:55.06 Marcus O'Sullivan 10 July 1996 France Nice, France
3000 m 7:30.36 Mark Carroll 4 August 1999 Herculis Monaco Monaco
5000 m 13:03.53 Alistair Cragg 16 September 2011 Memorial Van Damme Belgium Brussels, Belgium [2]
5 km (road) 13:26 Alistair Cragg 1 April 2012 27th Carlsbad 5000 United States Carlsbad, United States [3]
10000 m 27:39.55 Alistair Cragg 29 April 2007 Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational United States Palo Alto, United States
I think this has as much or more to do with how small Ireland is. I imagine the Irish times compare pretty favorably to the 10 closest countries by population of Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Turkmenistan, Palestine, Republic of Congo, New Zealand, Liberia, Croatia, Oman, and Lebanon. I bet the average of the national records are better than all these countries except maybe New Zealand. If you want to make it about black versus white, the Irish 100m record is over a tenth faster than the CAR and RoC records and .03 seconds of the Liberia record.
Not to change subject, but some fun facts may give perspective:
Given:
Ireland 2012 Population = approx 4.6 million
Ireland 2012 Olympic medals = 5
Ratio = 1.09 Olympic medals per million population
USA (Top Overall 2012 Olympic Medal Recipient) Population = approx 318 million
USA 2012 Olympic Medals = 105
Ratio = .33 Olympic medals per million population.
IRELAND WINS
Drugs,Drugs,Drugs! wrote:
Hi Kim Collins!
If Collins was clean he would be retired.
Grenada 1 medal
Population 105,000
Ratio = 9.5 medals per 1 million people
Leg speed velocity has no impact on how fast someone can run. It is the foot strike frequency and length of stride.
fred wrote:
I guess that they don't have the right leg speed velocity.
Kenya: 10.26
Ethiopia: 10.61
Eritrea: 10.58
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?