Has any Asian-American ever run a sub 4 minute mile?

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6 years ago 08/03/2017 8:05am EDT

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fkdfjdskfjsdl wrote:
No but Asians are much better sprinters, distance runners than white americans if you look at the Japanese currently and their perofrmances.
Similarily, Chinese are much stronger than white americans in weightlifting.
Most US medals in championships and olympics in track and field and other pure athletic events come from blacks, latinos not whites.

Wha? Since when? An Asian won more sprinting golds than Wariner??

An Asian finished ahead of Murphy, Jager, and Rupp? These are all medal winners and at the top of the world for distance running!!

Asians are cool, but let's not just outright lie.

6 years ago 08/03/2017 8:28am EDT

re: serious question....

I'm surprised Sukhi Khosla hasn't done it, although he's close at 3:45 1500. In HS it seemed inevitable that he would get it, but he seems to be struggling a bit at OSU. Anyone know what his story is?

6 years ago 08/03/2017 8:36am EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
Dr. Steve Brule wrote:
YSL coulda done it eventually!! 9:00 and 14:27 as a SOPH!
Leung ran faster than that as a frosh. 14:15.
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Yeah, but Leal did it as a soph in high school.

6 years ago 08/03/2017 8:53am EDT

re: Dr. Steve Brule

...but he succumbed to subcultural pressures to not excel athletically (Moonyism). Very Asian.

YSL coulda done it eventually!! 9:00 and 14:27 as a SOPH!

6 years ago 08/03/2017 9:19am EDT

re: Link

It looks like Sukhi Khosla has the best chance of becoming the first to do it. I thought he would definitely do it a few years ago when he ran 4:05 in high school.

It's an interesting question because one could say that there are four "main" ethnic groups in the US, the four biggest being white American, black American, Hispanic American, and Asian-American.

6 years ago 08/03/2017 10:30pm EDT

re: serious question....

What qualifies in your eyes as Asian-American? Do they have to be 100% asian or can they be half, quarter, etc?

I know a guy on my team who is half Asian and ran 1:50 this year so maybe he could do it in the next year or two (that converts to around 4:04 I think)

6 years ago 08/03/2017 10:33pm EDT

re: Mid D or bust

No one likes half asian guys. Only half-asian girls

Sad but true. :(

6 years ago 08/04/2017 12:31am EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
Dr. Steve Brule wrote:
YSL coulda done it eventually!! 9:00 and 14:27 as a SOPH!
Leung ran faster than that as a frosh. 14:15.
I'll always remember him and Cabral rocking the 5k at IC4as as freshman. I think Leung was in the slowheat and ran 1415 pushing it all by himself and Cabral ran 140 in the fast heat.
Leung was upset as that wasn't fast enough to make it to NCAAs. Even though I coached his rival coach I went up to him and told him to cheer up as i was super impressed.
He was having none of it. Said it wasn't good enough and that he was going to turn princeton into a distance power.
I remember thinking to myself, "My history with Princeton only dates to 1992 but I know every star recruit since then has been saing the same thing." But darn if he wasn't right. He and Cabral made them good.
Now my memory is hazy. The convo above might have been with Cabral or maybe both of them. But I just remember thinking "a) they are good and young and b) super motivated."

Are you that daft?

YSL was a sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL

You're talking about Leung as a COLLEGE frosh

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