Here's a couple wrote:
Regina Jacobs
Oh, was she also doping as a junior?
Here's a couple wrote:
Regina Jacobs
Oh, was she also doping as a junior?
Banana Bread wrote:
Look at Bekele. He turned into a master last year(35). He will get the marathon world record now, as a master. I can't wait to see it. He became the best at the end of his junior years, and is still the best now. Haile was similar. He was the best as a junior until his retirement. He got the marathon world record under 2:04 when he was 35. We are seeing similar patterns with Bekele. Bekele might even go sub 2:02.
No, Bekele won't run 2:01 or 2:02, he is going to quit because he's about 38/39
Steve Moneghetti was a top flight teenage runner and continued to run fast in his 50s. I am not sure if he set any significant underage revords. He held the half marathon WR at one stage and set masters WRs and possibly a few 50 + NRs.
Lorraine Moller - 2:03 in the 800m at the 1974 Commonwealth Games at 18 (still a NZ record), regular marathon winner in late 70s and 80s and Olympic marathon bronze in 1992 as a vet.
How about wrote:
Lorraine Moller - 2:03 in the 800m at the 1974 Commonwealth Games at 18 (still a NZ record), regular marathon winner in late 70s and 80s and Olympic marathon bronze in 1992 as a vet.
Good spotting, surely if someone could cajole Toni Hodgkinson to race you would have the best example. What about African age cheats that have long careers?
Eammon Coghlan?
He held the world indoor mile record and was the first master to run a sub-4.
I know he was a top junior runner in Ireland before he went to Villanova, but don't know if he held any Irish junior records.
The39Steps wrote:
Coevett wrote:
I don't think Lagat even started running seriously until he was nearly 20 or so. I wonder if that might have played a part in his longevity? Same with Anthony Whiteman.
Well, he ran in high school in Kenya as a teen -that is, if one believes Kenyan age records- and was good enough after less than a year in a Kenyan University to get a scholarship to WSU.
if he was as old as you'd claim he'd be like 50 now and ran a 13:0x will 48? come on