douglas burke wrote:
Unofficial time, but this could be first twins to run under an hour in career, his twin Zane ran 59:47 in Japan last year.
Wasn't watching it live, but was following along as Zane posted updates. Looks like he came from a good distance back after the whole race went out hard.
Not really. He stayed close to the front the whole race. The race did start quickly. But he was just a few metres behind Mwangi in second for a good part of the race. Then Mwangi slowed down a little, Robertson took the lead and never relinquished it.
His time seems to be exactly one hour. He could easily have gone a few seconds under, but he just made sure he got the win.
He was on 59:09 pace early (according to someone on twitter), was on 59:30 pace (according to Athletic Weekly writer Steven Mills with 3-4 k to go.
I started watching when they were at 11k and he was about 2 seconds behind 1 leader, then shortly after he took the lead opened a gap and held on.
At the paces he was running I doubt he was ever any significant distance back.
Speaking of which, this appeared recently on youtube. It lasts 28 minutes but WORTH A WATCH. Enjoy
Here are the official times. https://twitter.com/Trackside2017/status/843427036437925889
douglas burke wrote:
He was on 59:09 pace early (according to someone on twitter), was on 59:30 pace (according to Athletic Weekly writer Steven Mills with 3-4 k to go.
I started watching when they were at 11k and he was about 2 seconds behind 1 leader, then shortly after he took the lead opened a gap and held on.
At the paces he was running I doubt he was ever any significant distance back.
Fair enough, that's what I get for trying to follow a race on instagram...
Don't know how to edit the headline of the thread. OFFICIAL TIME 60:00
Superb!
Here is an amazing video of the finish.
https://twitter.com/runninelvis/status/843425979691339776
Looks like Weldon and I are no longer the fastest twins in history:
Looks like he was easing his way in to the finish and could have broken 60 if he had wanted to. Amazing, though, how slow the elites look when they are moving at 4:37 pace. They are just so efficient/powerful in their strides.
The two brothers may be proving the power of genetics (twin runners usually run pretty similarly fast, the Jefferson brothers were two good examples) but they are also proving that if you train at altitude with very high quality workout partners, as in Kenya and Ethiopia where they've trained, you are going to run very fast.
rojo wrote:
Here is an amazing video of the finish.
https://twitter.com/runninelvis/status/843425979691339776Looks like Weldon and I are no longer the fastest twins in history:
https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/843432449967316993
Um, ever hear of Shigeru and Takeshi Soh?
Jake Robertson's just run a half in1:00:01. Is it the 3rd fastest half by a non African?
Jess wrote:
Jake Robertson's just run a half in1:00:01. Is it the 3rd fastest half by a non African?
no.
off the top of my head
hall
Hawkins
his brother
Ever hear of Ritz?
uncontrolled wrote:
Ever hear of Ritz?
Crackers????
Twat wrote:
Crackers????
That's racist!!
Marilson Dos Santos is the non-African record holder if I recall.
White or rice wrote:
Um, ever hear of Shigeru and Takeshi Soh?
I assumed it was tongue in cheek (about themselves ever holding that honor, not the Robertsons who have a legitimate claim).
rojo wrote:
Here is an amazing video of the finish.
https://twitter.com/runninelvis/status/843425979691339776Looks like Weldon and I are no longer the fastest twins in history:
https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/843432449967316993
Didn't the US have 400m running twins about 15-20 years ago that could go 44s? The Harrison's.
Last year, these twins were trashing Kenya every which way they could, saying the country was vile, non-compliant and should be banned from the Olympics because we allegedly had a systematic doping regime as bad as Russia's (ridiculous claim by the way). Zane, I think, even went so far as to claim that he had received death threats and implied that Kenyans were savages out to murder him. Last I heard, they had relocated to Ethiopia vowing never to set foot in Kenya again.
That episode, no matter how brief, will forever cloud my opinion of these two and tarnish whatever achievements as far as I'm concerned. The sheer hatred of the comments, for a country and a people who'd welcomed, accommodated and trained them for a decade was shocking and spoke to their complete lack of character. Maybe it's a cultural thing?
I wonder what changed in the few months from being completely "done" with Kenya to moving back to that 'filthy, cheating, backward country' so quickly and embracing it again in their frankly, exploitative, self-promotinal videos? Wasn't Ethiopia welcoming enough? Don't they have their pick of high altitude sites in Europe and America to choose from? These two should take a good hard look at themselves, asking serious questions about honour and gratitude and why, after having lived in a country for that long, they have never really been accepted unlike several other foreigners who've made the same journey.
Anyway, good luck to them.
