Wow: Fred Kerley walks across the line in 44.09 in his prelim at SECs!!

Good Lord

What time was on the clock?

Pics don't lie wrote:

What time was on the clock?

Heat-by-Heat

HEAT 1

PL ATHLETE MARK LN/POS

1 (1) Fred Kerley

Texas A&M [SR] 44.09 Q 4

2 (7) Kunle Fasasi

Florida [SO] 45.95 q 8

3 (12) Maurice Freeman

Georgia [SR] 46.40 5

4 (19) Ari Cogdell

Tennessee [SO] 47.00 3

5 (20) Ayrian Evans

Georgia [SR] 47.04 6

There were 5 heats. All of the winners ran under 46. A guy ran 46.35 in another heat and didn't make the final.

Crazy.

So the SEC meet is being covered by NBC?

That was a 43.7x that got put off.

as poster said that was a 43.7 if he'd run hard in home-stretch

the splits were appalling & i got them as ~ 21.0/23.0

his "flat-out" splits wouda been ~ 21.0 / 22.7 for 1.7s split difference

the "template" i use for "ideal" 400 is for MJ's 43.18 with 21.2+ / 21.9+ splits or ~ 0.7s difference between 200 splits

Fred went out far too fast !!!

~ 1.0s too wide compared to MJ !!!

i'll offer a rough energy calculation for MJ's 43.18 off 21.2/21.9 & Fred's likely 43.7 off 21.0 / 22.7 ( based on cubing speed of split * distance )

my best estimate currently on this run is that Fred coud run a 3/4s split difference 400 of

~ 43.60

not as fast as i thought with better splits but physics isn't generous

still, 43.6 in May is smoking !!!

He will surpass Curtis Mills as the best Aggie 400m sprinter this season.

Here comes the ventolin crap.

That said, he has a chance to make the US team this year because our 400m guys are quite weak.

His plan for this heat, like many 400m runners do in heats/semis, was the blast the opening 200m, work thru 350 and coast the final 50m. I've had all my athletes run this type of simulation (none 44.09), great stimulus for the final. If similar conditions we'll see a 43.58 at max.

OMG, where did this guy come from?

Dwight and Larry talked nonsense throughout without any sense of excitement.

We have been waiting over a decade for another great American 400m runner, ever since the rise of LaShawn Merritt around 2005 (first broke 45) or 2006 (ran 44.14) and Jeremy Wariner in 2004. Given what is going on with South Africa in the 400m, gold is going to be near impossible and other medals at a premium, but Kerley looks like the real deal. That was absolutely a few tenths slower from jogging to the line. He looked very strong the last 100m despite the insanely fast start.

zxvxzcv wrote:

We have been waiting over a decade for another great American 400m runner, ever since the rise of LaShawn Merritt around 2005 (first broke 45) or 2006 (ran 44.14) and Jeremy Wariner in 2004. Given what is going on with South Africa in the 400m, gold is going to be near impossible and other medals at a premium, but Kerley looks like the real deal. That was absolutely a few tenths slower from jogging to the line. He looked very strong the last 100m despite the insanely fast start.

+1

He held his form perfectly at the end, until he eased. Awesome!

Holy sh!t. This guy and Wayde van Niekerk need to meet on the track this summer. This is the best time for the men's 400 ever.

vivalarepublica wrote:

Holy sh!t. This guy and Wayde van Niekerk need to meet on the track this summer. This is the best time for the men's 400 ever.

And before the grammar police get to me, by time, I meant era.

The 400 has amazing variation in body types. Some are built like skinny little boys and some look like HGH lab experiments.

Yawn wrote:

Here comes the ventolin crap.

That said, he has a chance to make the US team this year because our 400m guys are quite weak.

Not just because our 400 guys are "quite weak" - this run would have made him the 5th fastest guy in the world last year. Of course we're still quite early in the year, but that was a blazing performance. Especially with shutting it down at the end.

Dude looks doped. Slap Ass.

Wild Dominion wrote:

So the SEC meet is being covered by NBC?

That was a 43.7x that got put off.

He might have cracked 44.00.

The thought that he slowed down by .40 is patently stupid.

I watched the finish four more times. That slowdown was absolutely worth .3 to .4 seconds.

vivalarepublica wrote:

Holy sh!t. This guy and Wayde van Niekerk need to meet on the track this summer. This is the best time for the men's 400 ever.

If they raced the way it would play out would have kerley even or slightly ahead at 200, then 150 to go you would see wayde closing hard, passing Fred with 50m to go without a response and would put a 5-10m gap on him, making Fred look like he was standing still. A better race would be to see Fred vs lashawn. Lashawn isn't scared of Fred, he knows he has the superior 200m speed so he would hold him off.