BS wrote:
rviiv wrote:The race was only won in 8:45ish. The other women chickened out and settled for competing for silver instead of challenging Dibaba. They should be embarrassed that they did the even try.
Pace was 3:15 at 1K - Dibaba was leading at 2K at 6:02 - so a 2:47, followed up with a 2:45 for 8:47. Unlikely anyone in the field could run 5:32 for 2K in a rabbited race of 2K much less chasing after 1K.
Defar in her heydey ran a 3k in 8:23 -- about a 2:48 pace. I watched her run a 14:24 5k and she had to run most of it herself, they couldn't find rabbits to take a substantial portion of the race.
The opening 1km was very slow for this field (slower than Defar's half marathon pace), so basically a warmup. And Genzebe Dibaba is a very good 1500m right now.