0 major WR's below 1500m set in Nike spikes! Are they inferior?

What shoe was the half marathon set in?

1500m as in meters, not miles

Bad Wigins wrote:

m100: puma doper

110h: reebok doper

m200: puma doper

m400: adidas doper

m800: adidas doper

w100: mizuno doper

100h: adidas doper

w200: mizuno doper

w400: adidas doper

w800: adidas doper

Sand Dunes wrote:

What shoe was the half marathon set in?

Adidas on the women's side.

Nike on the men's side - Tedese

Nike's athletes are doping dopers too, so that's a moot point. And there are a lot more of them, but somehow they can't set a WR in an event where spikes really matter. Not so great down the form list either. Top performances of Nike spikes and the athletes who wore them:

100m: #7 Powell 2008

110h: #3 Xiang 2006

200m: #4 Johnson 1996

400m: #2 Johnson 1999

800m: #4 Kipketer 1997

100w: #4 Jeter 2009

100h: #6 Rollins 2013

200w: #3 Jones 1998

400w: #14 Freeman 1996 (probably)

800w: #3 Jelimo 2008

for what it's worth, I didn't mention 400h. Kevin Young was wearing a USA-issued Nike singlet in Barcelona, but his spikes were Asics. I can't find video of Yulia Pechenkina's WR w400h, or images definitely from there, but there are some photos of her wearing Nike so they might possibly have 1. Both Samba and Rai Benjamin wore Nike this year and may snag the m400 to get them possibly to 2. But they'll still have 0 flat records.

I'm now going to wait for a sprinter to weigh in on whether the top elites prefer other brands, or do those other brands just focus their sponsorship funds on only the very best.

Not sure this is anything to do with the spikes but more the interests of the companies, Adidas seem to have more of a focus sponsoring shorter events (ie. Wayde van niekerk, Noah lyles) rather than distance which is dominated by Nike athletes (Kipchoge, Farah and many more). The spikes are only as good as the athletes wearing them

notsure289 wrote:

Not sure this is anything to do with the spikes but more the interests of the companies, Adidas seem to have more of a focus sponsoring shorter events (ie. Wayde van niekerk, Noah lyles) rather than distance which is dominated by Nike athletes (Kipchoge, Farah and many more). The spikes are only as good as the athletes wearing them

I think Willis was the only non-Nike guy in the Rio 1500m final while Rudisha won the 800m in Adidas.

Anyone with common sense knows Nike makes better running shoes than spikes.

George213 wrote:

Anyone with common sense knows Nike makes better running shoes than spikes.

They may do better at shoes than spikes but to be fair to their crappy spikes, their shoes suck pretty bad too..

Subway Surfers wrote:

notsure289 wrote:

Not sure this is anything to do with the spikes but more the interests of the companies, Adidas seem to have more of a focus sponsoring shorter events (ie. Wayde van niekerk, Noah lyles) rather than distance which is dominated by Nike athletes (Kipchoge, Farah and many more). The spikes are only as good as the athletes wearing them

I think Willis was the only non-Nike guy in the Rio 1500m final while Rudisha won the 800m in Adidas.

Do you mean that 1500 that was the slowest since 1933 and slower than the disabled 1500 race?

.....Explains the preponderance of crap shoes in the race.

CommonCents wrote:

George213 wrote:

Anyone with common sense knows Nike makes better running shoes than spikes.

They may do better at shoes than spikes but to be fair to their crappy spikes, their shoes suck pretty bad too..

Ever heard of Vaporfly?

Christian Coleman 60m

George213 wrote:

CommonCents wrote:

They may do better at shoes than spikes but to be fair to their crappy spikes, their shoes suck pretty bad too..

Ever heard of Vaporfly?

Everyone heard of Dennis Kimetto??

Marathon World record, Adidas Adios Boost

Adizero Adios -> 3 Marathon World Record

vaporfly -> monton de caca

George213 wrote:

Anyone with common sense knows Nike makes better running shoes than spikes.

If anything this is backwards. Basically everyone I know trains in a different shoe and races in nike.

Everything below 1500m doesn't matter.

Why are you only looking at one performer per event? Wouldn’t it be more informative to know what % of the top 10 or 20 performers in each event wore a particular brand? Sample size and all that.

Sample size nothing. 0 for 10, possibly 0 for 12 counting hurdles is a sure trend. Besides, I already listed the top performances for Nike in each event and it's usually not even 2nd.

Since Adidas owned Reebok when Merritt ran 12.80, every WR was set in either a Dassler or Japanese spike, except possibly w400h. It must gall Phil Knight that he can't even beat his former employer Asics.

Nike's aim likely isn't to own more world records. Last I checked, they were a company that sells clothes and shoes. While a world record holder in T&F might be a bit more visible than anyone who is not, sponsoring more than half the athletes in the Olympics or World Champs every time they roll around seems like a lot more visibility than fewer people with big credentials.

Take a gander at most any top race in the last ten years that's shorter than 1500m and tell me how many Nike athletes you see. Odds are it's a hell of a lot more than other brands. That's where they're spending their money, and that's how they're getting it back. Wider visibility.