This guy has yet to break 48 seconds outdoors (or indoors for that matter) in the 400 hurdles...has not really been that close.
In fact, he finished second to a runner a year younger in his 48.22 PR race in Zurich last summer.
I know he is white and all but let's not get too carried away.
Just stop it, with your common sense. Letsrun fanboys don't need that. I'm still holding out for Lemaître to start eclipsing Bolt by running regular 9.6s like they predicted.
He was doing a lot of other events and don't think he focused on the 400 hurdles til recently. He improved his 400 flat speed a ton from 2016 to 2017 and that was probably a good indicator for the hurdles. I don't think he got the technical aspect of the hurdles in 2017 but should have been even high 47s last year.
The biggest mistake that people make about the 400H is that they assume the technical aspect of the event will just "come" to you at some point or another. Some (even most) athletes will never get it right. Remember that Edwin Moses is the only person in the history of the event who has ever been able to consistently 13-step a race. Even look at a Kerron Clement, arguably a more physically gifted athlete than Moses, who has never managed to run faster nor been anywhere close to as consistent.
This 34.2 WR is a moot point, hardly any professional hurdler has ever even attempted the race. When I was a collegiate 400 hurdler, we would run sub-36 in reps over the first 8 as a speed workout. Warholm is a good athlete in a time in the event where good is good enough to win a major championship. We will just have to see what he does, there is nothing about him that "screams" sub-48, and theres certainly less that screams 47-low. Maybe he can, maybe he can't. Time will tell.
"We will just have to see what he does, there is nothing about him that "screams" sub-48, and theres certainly less that screams 47-low."
Whatever you say hurdlesjack, whatever you say. You know best.
We will just have to see what he does, there is nothing about him that "screams" sub-48, and theres certainly less that screams 47-low. Maybe he can, maybe he can't. Time will tell.
Lol, how about 45-high? Thanks for the worst take ever.
Lol, how about 45-high? Thanks for the worst take ever.
To be fair, 4 years ago he was only a 48 second hurdler, and NO ONE in the entire world thought that he would ever go sub 46.
And very, very few people (including me to be honest) even thought he would go sub 47, when even the great Edwin Moses couldn't do it.
Oh right. But Holloway was a gonna do even though he doesn't even have a 400H time on record, nor a 400 time. In fact his best 300H time was 36.73 vs Warholms 34.mid at that time.
Was ok to speculate on Holloway breaking it but not Warholm, even though Holloway was much much farther from it. How interesting...I wonder why?
Yes it was fair to speculate on what Holloway would do. There was no issue speculating on both. Hell, I am still curious as to what GH could do in 400h if he trained for that specifically for most of the reasons that were true in 2018. GH basic speed 60 is clearly better than Karsten or Rai. 6.50 in 2019 would have put him in final at indoor worlds this year. If he has .02 --.03 improvement each year, GH would have medal and possibly won world indoor this yeae. Neither Karesten or Rai have an advantage in hurdle technique. 12.81..nuff said. GH routinely drops 43s on the relays, even back in 2018. Again, with his traing focus not being geared towards the 400 or 400h.
Based on this, it was not crazy in 2018 to speculate that GH could break young's record or in 2022 to speculate that he could break the 400h record now. Key world being speculate. Don't see GH ever traing specifically for 400h. Oh and to use a 300h time that was 3 years old to prove the error in speculating on GH is crazy. It would have been natural to assume his 300h would have drastically imroved from 2015 to 2018, particularly because of him speed, hurdle technique and what he was doing to actual 400m runners on those 4x4 legs. If anyone is not curious to see what a Karsten, Rai, GH Dos Santos 400h race would looke like if GH trained for the 400h, you are not a real T&F fan. Surely the wr and other records would fall in that race. It is fun to speculate.