Komen's 7:20 or Bolt's 9.58.
Komen's 7:20 or Bolt's 9.58.
lease wrote:
8.90
Bob Beamon's long jump record changed the sport and even the language (we now have the adjective Beamonesque).
Sir Roger's 3:59.4 was important, but incremental. Moving the LJWR from 8.35 to 8.90 was not incremental.
The altitude of Mexico City had nothing to do with it.
Seb Coe's 1:41.73 When he ran that time, no other athlete in history had ran under 1:43.4. That's almost one second per lap in a two lap event. Only two runners have gone faster in the 37 years since, both from a country with an apparently out of control doping culture.
It would be the equivalent today of somebody running under 42 seconds for the 400m, 1:39.5 for the 800, or 3.23 for the 1500m.
Yiannis Kouros' 188.6 miles in 24 hours. No one within 10 miles of that record.
His 48 hour record is 294.4 miles.
81' 3.5"
Mike Carter’s 81-3 HSR in the Shot put still looks like a misprint.
Michael Carter's 81'3.5 high school shotput record.
CoachWag wrote:
Mike Carter’s 81-3 HSR in the Shot put still looks like a misprint.
That was beautifully put.
It’s not the current record but Beamon jumped 8.90 m (29’2.5”) in 1968.
50 years later, it currently stands as the second longest jump of all time.
Quadrophenia
I want to hold your hand with the flip side being I saw her standing there. Hard to top that. Two number ones.
Dark Side of the Moon.
All the great records are synthetic.
I still think the greatest non-synthetic performance I've ever seen was:
Peter Snell 800m 1:44 on a grassy track is the most impressive non-synthetic track record.
burpee wrote:
9.58. Only 2 other performances under 9.7 (both 9.69) in the most glamorous and competitive event in T&F.
Your favorite event is a little more competitive than you think
Coevett wrote:
lease wrote:
8.90
Bob Beamon's long jump record changed the sport and even the language (we now have the adjective Beamonesque).
Sir Roger's 3:59.4 was important, but incremental. Moving the LJWR from 8.35 to 8.90 was not incremental.
The altitude of Mexico City had nothing to do with it.
Seb Coe's 1:41.73 When he ran that time, no other athlete in history had ran under 1:43.4. That's almost one second per lap in a two lap event. Only two runners have gone faster in the 37 years since, both from a country with an apparently out of control doping culture.
It would be the equivalent today of somebody running under 42 seconds for the 400m, 1:39.5 for the 800, or 3.23 for the 1500m.
Beamon’s LJ improvement in the 8.90 is worth about twice as much as Coe’s two-world-record improvement from 1:43.4 to 1:41.73. Even factoring in the altitude, Beamon’s performance is better than Coe’s entire collection of 800 records put together.
It’s called Beamonesque for a reason.
8:06 3000m by Wang Junxia. Converts to a sub 14 5k which is just insane.
Byron Nelson 11 consecutive wins on PGA Tour
I'd have to say The Grateful Dead's, "American Beauty".
probably parker kuklinski juggling a soccer ball 252 times in 30 seconds
Coevett wrote:
Seb Coe's 1:41.73 When he ran that time, no other athlete in history had ran under 1:43.4. That's almost one second per lap in a two lap event. Only two runners have gone faster in the 37 years since, both from a country with an apparently out of control doping culture.
That's some sort of surprise. I thought he will vote for Daniel Komen, Dennis Kimetto or Beatrice Chepkoech.