"It was a fairly straight-forward race for the world record-holder, who closely followed the pacemaker on the first lap before kicking for home to maintain his lead over compatriot Job Kinyor."
1 663 David Rudisha KEN 1:44.90 =SB
2 660 Job Kinyor KEN 1:45.26
3 654 Nicholas Kiplangat Kipkoech 1:45.65
4 658 Daniel Andujar ESP 1:45.65 SB
5 661 Giordano Benedetti ITA 1:46.09 SB
6 655 Mostafa Smaili MAR 1:46.24
7 656 Joseph Deng AUS 1:47.06 PB
8 659 Jacob Rozani RSA 1:47.27
9 665 Balázs Vindics HUN 1:48.15 SB
10 662 Gergő Kiss HUN 1:48.37 SB
664 Tibor Koroknai HUN DNF
657 Mark English IRL DNS
400 47.76
600m 663 Rudisha David (KEN) 1:18.16
The headline takeaway from the meet came in the short hurdles where Kendra Harrison ran 12.28 and Omar McLeod ran 12.96.
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/istvan-gyulai-memorial-2017-szekesfehervar-ha
Full results can be found here:
http://gyulaimemorial.hu/results
David Rudisha (1:44.90 sb) returns to his winning ways in Hungary
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The rabbit went out in 47.76? I am assuming nobody was with him...
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However, the article states that Rudisha closely followed the pacemaker...would one then assume that DR's 3rd 200m was close to 30 seconds?
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Clock stopped (400m split) about 20m before the rabbit hit the line. Prob 50 point
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JRinaldi wrote:
Clock stopped (400m split) about 20m before the rabbit hit the line. Prob 50 point
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But is he on the Kenyan team this year?
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routine 47.x for the first 400m, walk in the park, just glide the rest of the way, take em out in the straight. routine.
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Star wrote:
But is he on the Kenyan team this year?
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Typical David Rudisha, starts the season off slow and then rounds into form in the middle of the season. It's almost like clockwork
He didn't really push to hard, got the legs going and produced a quality finish.
I would say he is in 1:43 form right about now, and will be around 1:41/1:42 form come WC. I don't think he will ever get close to his WR time -
Race vid here, first lap looks like high 50.xx or low 51
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Woody KinPAID wrote:
Star wrote:
But is he on the Kenyan team this year?
He's the defending world champ, so automatic bye.
Not automatic
Rotich is the defending Diamond League champ, which is a wildcard like WC champ.
Thing is, each country only gets one wild card and Kenya has two in the 800.
They can send 4 total.
Rotich was 4th at the Kenya trials.
Rudisha didn't run the Trials.
If you were objective, you take top 3 plus top wildcard. Rudisha would be out.
I don't know if Kenya made a decision to drop the guy who finished ahead of Rotich and put Rudisha on the team.
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Why would you leave out the defending World Champ and winner of the last two Olympic finals, for an athlete that has never won medal of any colour (Rotich)? Rudisha is a lock on one of the spots any day of the week.
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you don't seem to know a lot about kenyan politics
the Big-Man isn't from a big tribe & has no great support in the fed
last year he had to make desperate finish to take 3rd in olympic trials knowing that if he got 4th he wasn't going to get any favors like Kamwo in 10k & woud be out of the 800 in rio
i think it is actually likely that rotich who is from a bigger tribe is going to get the wildcard & Big-Man won't go to london making team Korir/bett/saruni/rotich
the fed will justify it on Big-Man not having run fast this year
it will all come down to who has fastest 800sb by deadline
if it's rotich, fed will justify it by saying he has the quickest sb
the only chance Big-Man has got is to go run a 1'43+ in next coupla weeks or he's out !!! -
Did you watch the Kenyan Trials? Rudisha did...from the stands, because he has an automatic bye.
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the fed is nonsense with no sympathy/clue about form
they threw away 2 golds at 5k in '92/'96 by excluding their mega-talents who were ill at trials
in '92, this was meant to be ceremonial triumphal homecoming for 5k winner but the germans made mistake of inviting the best 5k talent we'd seen at the time as cannon fodder & here is brief clip of that 3k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqr6a_eyNsY
if not for rubbish 5'04 pacing but more like 5'00 at 2k he wouda run ~ 7'24/7'25
later in brussels i expected him to annihilate 12'58wr but it was execrable pacing to 3k, little more than a jog & off that he put in the most impressive last 2k to be seen for a good few years to come & finished in an astonishing 13'01 when i thought 13'10 wouda been good going after 3k split
he was in 12'50 / 12'52.5 shape in koln/brussels but didn't go to games
( he was better in '92 than even when he ran his pbs in mid-'90s )
then in '96 we have kid who was ill in trials, finished ?4th in 5k & didn't go to atlanta but few weeks after games just happened to run :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKA-whL8XgE
no one is telling me that those 2 guys coudn't have run away to 5k gold in '92 & '96 !!!
same logic tells me that big_man is behind the 8-ball when it comes to being picked for london... -
Rudisha has already been named to the Kenya WC team for London.
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it's all provisional at the moment
not the most recent article but best source had saruni in team as of end of last month
http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/TalkUp/London-Worlds-Kenya-team-looks-unstoppable/441392-3991588-4ok81/index.html -
Star wrote:
Not automatic
Rotich is the defending Diamond League champ, which is a wildcard like WC champ.
Thing is, each country only gets one wild card and Kenya has two in the 800.
They can send 4 total.
Rotich was 4th at the Kenya trials.
Rudisha didn't run the Trials.
If you were objective, you take top 3 plus top wildcard. Rudisha would be out.
I don't know if Kenya made a decision to drop the guy who finished ahead of Rotich and put Rudisha on the team.
That's my question.
Yes, obviously.
That's *why he didn't run the trials.*
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JRinaldi wrote:
Why would you leave out the defending World Champ and winner of the last two Olympic finals, for an athlete that has never won medal of any colour (Rotich)? Rudisha is a lock on one of the spots any day of the week.
Why would the US leave defending champions Dan O'Brien off and Carl Lewis off of the 1992 Olympic team?
Because they didn't make top three at the Trials.
Objectively, Rudisha should not be on this year's Kenyan team.
Subjectively, hell yes I would take Rotich or the third place guy off the team and add Rudisha.
This comes down to Kenyan politics.
They did not set up a process for Rudisha and Rotich before their trials.
They claimed that top 3 finishers are automatic, which means either Rotich or Rudisha doesn't go. And Rotich raced, so he should go.
Unless they officially declared Rudisha over Rotich before the meet, which they did not.
This is also an IAAF issue. If they offer two ways to get a wildcard, they should let up to 5 per country in an event.
The funny thing is, the reigning Olympic champ doesn't get a wild card. In this case, that is also Rudisha but imagine if Alfred Kipketer won last year and wasn't top three this year's trials.
But this is once again about Athletic Kenya not establishing clear selection rules before their trials. -
Does anyone actually know what calculo is talking about ever?
