YMMV wrote:
The twins are faster over 5K than Pre, Dixon, Walker, Coghlan, Coe, Ovett, one second off of Quax. Faster over 10000 than all of them and also Dick Tayler. The only guy decisively faster was Moorcroft, and for only a brief time over 5000. The 5000 is the lower end of their pwerformance curve but they leave at least the '70s guys behind.
And of course they are much faster the longer they go. At least one of them should be successful in the marathon, around 2:06-7, i.e. faster than anyone in the '80s.
What they have done is remarkable when you consider the drought in NZ before them.
So now you're scrambling to compare them to a few select guys who were actual World and Olympic medallists, many over shorter distances?
Yeah, Walker, Coghlan, Coe and Ovett are all broken up about their lousy 10ks.
The Robertsons don't leave any of those 70s guys behind over 5k. Compare their championship races with those guys from the past. You can't find them with a search warrant.
Blincoe is the NZ record holder.
Faster than ANYONE in the 80s?