Thank you. They hadn't updated this in the IAAF list yet but he's definitely run a 2:06:55.
So as of 4-7-19:
1) Ethiopia - 2:03:34
2) Kenya - 2:04:11
3) Turkey -2:05:27
4) Brunei - 2:06:04
5) Netherlands - 2:06:17
6) Eritrea - 2:06:46
7) Uganda - 2:06:55
8) Switzerland - 2:07:24
9) Belgium - 2:07:39
10) Morocco - 2:07:54
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America top 10 wrote:
Shocker: No Japan in the top 10. The US without Rupp not really a shocker.
Not really a shocker for Japan either. How many times have they run under 2:07:54 anyway? 2018 was by far their best year ever so not likely to repeat anytime soon. -
Shockage wrote:
America top 10 wrote:
Shocker: No Japan in the top 10. The US without Rupp not really a shocker.
Not really a shocker for Japan either. How many times have they run under 2:07:54 anyway? 2018 was by far their best year ever so not likely to repeat anytime soon.
What happened to Yuka Ando on the women's side and Yuta Shitara on the men's? They're going backwards. Yuki Kawauchi is the best hope again going pro. -
Who cares what Ritz's exact time was. It was a lot slower than true world class marathoners. You are arguing about whether he would lose by 4 minutes or 4.5 minutes to an elite East African...and that was like 5 years ago.
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AP5000 wrote:
Who cares what Ritz's exact time was. It was a lot slower than true world class marathoners. You are arguing about whether he would lose by 4 minutes or 4.5 minutes to an elite East African...and that was like 5 years ago.
Uhh, horsedongle...Yeah, there's like two guys 4 minutes faster than Ritz's 2:07 in a typical season.
There's like 20 major marathons in winter/spring & summer/fall. That's 60 podium spots for Ritz each time.
For example, Ritz could easily have take 3rd place yesterday at the Vienna marathon. His time would actually make him a world class marathoner. -
Hold on weeelll, I'm still trying to stop laughing at you. 2 guys 4 minutes faster than him? What planet do you live on?
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Also, he ran that time like 7 years ago. Do you just start typing before thinking? His highest IAAF ranking was 217#. But yeah, sure, his 2012 self otally would have finished third today.
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Shockage wrote:
America top 10 wrote:
Shocker: No Japan in the top 10. The US without Rupp not really a shocker.
Not really a shocker for Japan either. How many times have they run under 2:07:54 anyway? 2018 was by far their best year ever so not likely to repeat anytime soon.
Last year alone they had 5 runners that ran under 2:08. All time, they have had 16 runners run under 2:08. -
In the house of the rising sun wrote:
Shockage wrote:
America top 10 wrote:
Shocker: No Japan in the top 10. The US without Rupp not really a shocker.
Not really a shocker for Japan either. How many times have they run under 2:07:54 anyway? 2018 was by far their best year ever so not likely to repeat anytime soon.
Last year alone they had 5 runners that ran under 2:08. All time, they have had 16 runners run under 2:08.
Many years they also had no one under 2:08 -
AP5000 wrote:
Hold on weeelll, I'm still trying to stop laughing at you. 2 guys 4 minutes faster than him? What planet do you live on?
Wha? So in all of 2018, how may do you see here that are faster than 2:03:47?
https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/road-running/marathon/outdoor/men/senior/2018?regionType=world&drop=regular&fiftyPercentRule=regular&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true -
America top 10 wrote:
Thank you. They hadn't updated this in the IAAF list yet but he's definitely run a 2:06:55.
So as of 4-7-19:
1) Ethiopia - 2:03:34
2) Kenya - 2:04:11
3) Turkey -2:05:27
4) Brunei - 2:06:04
5) Netherlands - 2:06:17
6) Eritrea - 2:06:46
7) Uganda - 2:06:55
8) Switzerland - 2:07:24
9) Belgium - 2:07:39
10) Morocco - 2:07:54
Bahrain not Brunei -
Remind me of Ritz's 2018 marathon times again, please?
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land of the falling sun wrote:
In the house of the rising sun wrote:
Shockage wrote:
America top 10 wrote:
Shocker: No Japan in the top 10. The US without Rupp not really a shocker.
Not really a shocker for Japan either. How many times have they run under 2:07:54 anyway? 2018 was by far their best year ever so not likely to repeat anytime soon.
Last year alone they had 5 runners that ran under 2:08. All time, they have had 16 runners run under 2:08.
Many years they also had no one under 2:08
First Japanese runner under 2:08 was in 1988.
https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/japan/hiromi-taniguchi-2843 -
I'll do it for you. The answer is he didn't. According to IAAF he hasn't since 2013 where he went a few minutes slower at Chicago than he did in 2012. In 2012, he ran just under 1:01 (1:00:57) to put himself in shape to run 2:07:47. Guess what, his last HM (over a year ago at 2018 NYC) he ran 1:02:42...and hasn't run any meaningful distance since then. What do you think that puts his marathon time at if 1:01 got him just under 2:08? The answer is right at 2:12. That is probably best case scenario since he is old and hasn't even done a HM for over a year.
But keep telling yourself the next race...that will be the one! That will be the one where he comes back to his old glory. -
The full race appears to be on NBC Sports Gold. Don't know why it wasn't live.
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In Feb this year Ritz ran 1:01:25 for the half.
Try to keep up. -
Hardloper wrote:
America top 10 wrote:
Thank you. They hadn't updated this in the IAAF list yet but he's definitely run a 2:06:55.
So as of 4-7-19:
1) Ethiopia - 2:03:34
2) Kenya - 2:04:11
3) Turkey -2:05:27
4) Brunei - 2:06:04
5) Netherlands - 2:06:17
6) Eritrea - 2:06:46
7) Uganda - 2:06:55
8) Switzerland - 2:07:24
9) Belgium - 2:07:39
10) Morocco - 2:07:54
Bahrain not Brunei
Wow. That's bad. It's certainly the other tiny country that starts with a "B."
Lol. Apparently I had Brunei on the mind since it was in the news a lot recently. -
I just looked at the IAAF site and they had nothing on it. That was my source. Shame on me. I'm usually not paying that much attention to the mediocre times American distance runners put up. It's not like they are going to win a major competition outside of Rupp and that's assuming you call Prague major competition.
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Yes, not unhappy with how it unfolded compared to where i had ranked the runners. Saina trying to break them was i guess what i alluded to in his profile and i thought the women's winner was clear cut. My mistakes were not thinking Kelkile may blow up and my pick for women's runner up might throw in the towel.
