What is the most impressive running world record

Rudisha

Bolt 100m

Why the 2 mile, of course.

1. Bolt 100-- Every athletic person in the world has run this distance. He is the fastest ever by over a tenth of a second. Case closed.

2. WVN 400-- This is the second most common T&F distance which athletes from pretty much all sports have run at one point or another. It has been broken four times in 50 years. It's also the likeliest of these records to have been run "clean."

3. Radcliffe Marathon-- Unlike most female world records, it is still debatable that Radcliffe doped her way to an untouchable record.

4. Hicham 1500-- Back to the original assertion that records at commonly run distances are better.

5. Rudisha 800-- The talent pool in this event is not great and it is not run by most athletes, but this race sure was special.

Dirty:

Daniel Komen 7:20 for 3k

Clean:

Kenenisa Bekele 12:37 for 5k

Flojo's 100 and 200

I'm skeptical about the "faulty wind gauge" skeptics' claims. The wind was swirling around the stadium when she ran 10.49 so the wind gauge wouldn't necessarily register the breeze that we see when the starter held up his flag.

Don't care if she doped or not. How was she so much better than all the other doped women?

Cue: "she was a better responder" nonsense.

Bekele’s 12:37 and 26:17. Nobody will come anywhere close to either for a long time.

all of them really wrote:

Flojo's 100 and 200

I'm skeptical about the "faulty wind gauge" skeptics' claims. The wind was swirling around the stadium when she ran 10.49 so the wind gauge wouldn't necessarily register the breeze that we see when the starter held up his flag.

Don't care if she doped or not. How was she so much better than all the other doped women?

Cue: "she was a better responder" nonsense.

She was always fast but she DID have a dramatic improvement (if my memory serves me right).

I also remember her husband saying something like- every morning they got up and ran a hard 800 in- some ridiculously fast time, faster than the WR for 800 at the time.

Then, her death was iffy- heart attack or something in her sleep?

But- she never failed a test so I have to give her the benefit of the doubt.

MurderDub wrote:

5. Rudisha 800-- The talent pool in this event is not great and it is not run by most athletes

Dumbest thing I’ve read on letsrun this week.

PrZ wrote:

Bekele’s 12:37 and 26:17. Nobody will come anywhere close to either for a long time.

I believe Mo could've gotten them a couple years ago, but he never went for it, damn.

Hate to say it but probably Radcliffe's marathon

Bolt 1000 is up there too

Radcliffe

1/10 wrote:

MurderDub wrote:

5. Rudisha 800-- The talent pool in this event is not great and it is not run by most athletes

Dumbest thing I’ve read on letsrun this week.

If you say so, buddy. If running the 800 paid what the NBA and the Premiere League do, Rudisha might still be king but the composition of the Diamond League circuit would be radically different.

ufo5 wrote:

Hate to say it but probably Radcliffe's marathon

Bolt 1000 is up there too

Definitely Bolts 1000m.. sh!t was crazy.. best unsanctioned even I've ever been to.

303 km in 24 hours bybYannis Kouros.

Almaz Ayana 10,000 metres 29:17.45

It's rudhishas 800 records.

2 x 50. Back to back

That's what I was going to say.

Bolt 100m. The MARGIN he's better than everybody else is amazing. He didn't run it on a ridiculously fast track or with maximum wind or anything like that. There were no pace-setters or anything like that either (not that that's really possible in a sprint). Despite everybody believing Bolt has a "bad" start, he covered the first 20m and 30m faster than any other athlete in the history of the world. So he had the best start ever, the best top speed ever, and the best finish ever, all in the same race.