Kalle Berglund crushes Swedish national record in Götebog, runs 3:34.89 (Prakel 3:37- Full video)

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  • rojo
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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 8:14pm CDT
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    Sweden's Johnny Kroon ran 3:36.49 for 1500 way back on June 26, 1985. It was the Swedish national record until August 3rd of this year when 23-year old Kalle Berglund ran 3:36.07 n Bern.

    Today, Berglund went much faster - 3:34.89 - at the Folksam Grand Prix in Götebog to the delight of the home crowd.

    Video of the race:

    https://youtu.be/ejK3U17DyQk?t=9

    Results:

    Men 1500m

    1 Kalle Berglund 96 Spårvägens FK 3:34.89 NR
    2 Hicham Oueladha 95 MAR 3:35.70 SB
    3 Matthew Ramsden 97 AUS 3:37.19
    4 Samuel Prakel 94 USA 3:37.20 SB
    5 Elzan Bibic 99 SRB 3:37.66 PB
    6 Rorey Hunter 93 AUS 3:38.73
    7 Mike Foppen 96 NED 3:38.95 PB
    8 Andreas Almgren 95 Turebergs FK 3:38.99 PB
    9 Suldan Hassan 98 Ullevi FK 3:39.18 PB
    10 Corey Bellemore 94 CAN 3:39.36 PB
    11 Ferdinand Edman 93 NOR 3:39.63
    12 Baptiste Mischler 97 FRA 3:40.28
    13 Timo Benitz 91 GER 3:43.04
    14 Valentijn Weinans 95 NED 3:43.97
    15 William Paulson 94 CAN 3:45.80
    Adam Czerwinski 88 POL DNF (Pace)

    Article on the race:

    https://www.tellerreport.com/sports/2019-08-16---monster-race-by-kalle-berglund---new-record-and-cleared-world-cup-limit--%22what-pressure!%22-.Sky-RLVES.html

    Full Results here:

    http://212.247.216.72/friidrott/Goteborg19/resultat.php
  • Swedestar
    9 months ago 08/16/2019 10:22pm CDT
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    Very very impressive race by him. Took down one of the top Moroccans with ease.
    Berglund really seems like someone that is going to be a star in the event. Young guy improving every year.

    4th best Scandanavian guy ever after the Inge bros?
  • Kontrollera
    9 months ago 08/16/2019 10:30pm CDT
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    Swedestar wrote:

    Very very impressive race by him. Took down one of the top Moroccans with ease.
    Berglund really seems like someone that is going to be a star in the event. Young guy improving every year.

    4th best Scandanavian guy ever after the Inge bros?


    EVER? You mean as in all time compared to Hägg, Andersson, Nurmi, etc?
  • Swedestar
    9 months ago 08/16/2019 10:38pm CDT
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    Kontrollera wrote:

    Swedestar wrote:

    Very very impressive race by him. Took down one of the top Moroccans with ease.
    Berglund really seems like someone that is going to be a star in the event. Young guy improving every year.

    4th best Scandanavian guy ever after the Inge bros?


    EVER? You mean as in all time compared to Hägg, Andersson, Nurmi, etc?


    They were better 1500 guys??
  • RossiCheated
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    9 months ago 08/16/2019 11:02pm CDT
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    Swedestar wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    Swedestar wrote:

    Very very impressive race by him. Took down one of the top Moroccans with ease.
    Berglund really seems like someone that is going to be a star in the event. Young guy improving every year.

    4th best Scandanavian guy ever after the Inge bros?


    EVER? You mean as in all time compared to Hägg, Andersson, Nurmi, etc?


    They were better 1500 guys??


    They could stone him to death with all of their Olympic medals.
  • Barefoot Bushman
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    9 months ago 08/17/2019 1:41am CDT
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    Hagg and Andersson were banned before they could compete at the Olympics. That didn't stop Sweden going 1-2 at the '48 Olympics. Although, Nurmi could lend them a couple each and still have plenty, including his '24 1500 gold.

    In terms of a Scandinavian all-time list, Berglund would be fifth behind the Ingebrigtsens and Robert Kiplagat Andersen's Danish record of 3:31.17 from 1997.
  • Swedish Power
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 4:16am CDT
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    Kalle has been knocking on the sub 3:35 door since a few years back but looked to be stuck at 3:36-3:38 .
    Now at last sub 3:35 he really seem to be able to reach maybe 3:31-3:32 in a couple of years. Will he run sub 3:30?
    I doubt it .Maybe if he changed to the coach with the magic wand.
  • JS follower
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 5:11am CDT
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    Impressive. Wonder if maybe he looked at the program of the great JS. he has always been a fan of the individual paces that Berglund seem to deploy.
  • Kontrollera
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 7:57am CDT
    re: Swedestar
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    Swedestar wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    Swedestar wrote:

    Very very impressive race by him. Took down one of the top Moroccans with ease.
    Berglund really seems like someone that is going to be a star in the event. Young guy improving every year.

    4th best Scandanavian guy ever after the Inge bros?


    EVER? You mean as in all time compared to Hägg, Andersson, Nurmi, etc?


    They were better 1500 guys??


    WR holders and Olympic champion. You think Sam Prakel is better than Hägg? His 1500 time is faster, right?
  • Questionairrea
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 8:45am CDT
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    Kontrollera wrote:

    WR holders and Olympic champion. You think Sam Prakel is better than Hägg? His 1500 time is faster, right?


    Oh? So why are we calling Kipchoge the greatest marathoner ever? Why are we not calling Waldemar Cierpinski the greatest marathon runner ever? His two Olympic golds are 100% more than what Kipchoge has. Idiot.
  • Kontrollera
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 9:13am CDT
    re: Questionairrea
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    Questionairrea wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    WR holders and Olympic champion. You think Sam Prakel is better than Hägg? His 1500 time is faster, right?


    Oh? So why are we calling Kipchoge the greatest marathoner ever? Why are we not calling Waldemar Cierpinski the greatest marathon runner ever? His two Olympic golds are 100% more than what Kipchoge has. Idiot.


    What is the need for name calling? You must be American.
    However, an easy answer to your question would be that WC is a confirmed doper from East German notations. Second, WC never held the WR in the marathon. Comparing times from different eras is relatively insignificant as the major factor of comparison.
  • Questionairrea
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 9:24am CDT
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    Kontrollera wrote:

    Questionairrea wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    WR holders and Olympic champion. You think Sam Prakel is better than Hägg? His 1500 time is faster, right?


    Oh? So why are we calling Kipchoge the greatest marathoner ever? Why are we not calling Waldemar Cierpinski the greatest marathon runner ever? His two Olympic golds are 100% more than what Kipchoge has. Idiot.


    What is the need for name calling? You must be American.
    However, an easy answer to your question would be that WC is a confirmed doper from East German notations. Second, WC never held the WR in the marathon. Comparing times from different eras is relatively insignificant as the major factor of comparison.


    Oh? So now times do matter?? When it suits you?

    WC is just about a confirmed doper as Kipchoge is. Kipchoge is on the fancy bears list and WC was allegedly in some E German documentation and we have to trust this one guy who no one knows what kind of agenda he had. Never really proved out to be 100% doped. Confirmed is quite the stretch.
  • Kenneth M
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 9:48am CDT
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    Imagine thinking Nurmi was Scandinavian.
  • Finn's are not vikings
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 9:59am CDT
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    Lol. Correct. You can just tell by the last names for the most part who is Scandinavian and who is Finnish. No son's at the end of Finnish names.
  • PrZ
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 10:00am CDT
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    RossiCheated wrote:

    Swedestar wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    Swedestar wrote:

    Very very impressive race by him. Took down one of the top Moroccans with ease.
    Berglund really seems like someone that is going to be a star in the event. Young guy improving every year.

    4th best Scandanavian guy ever after the Inge bros?


    EVER? You mean as in all time compared to Hägg, Andersson, Nurmi, etc?


    They were better 1500 guys??


    They could stone him to death with all of their Olympic medals.


    Too bad they wouldn’t be able to catch Kalle in the first place (ya know, cause he’s faster).
  • trane
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    9 months ago 08/17/2019 10:11am CDT
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    Great time trial and nice NR with 1350m pacing. I wondered a long time whether Oueladha was a pacer or a runner.

    One runner who openly was chasing the WC standard did not start in the top 10. I cannot understand that. Kalle Berglund made the best out of this gold opportunity.
  • Kontrollera
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 10:46am CDT
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    Questionairrea wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    Questionairrea wrote:

    Kontrollera wrote:

    WR holders and Olympic champion. You think Sam Prakel is better than Hägg? His 1500 time is faster, right?


    Oh? So why are we calling Kipchoge the greatest marathoner ever? Why are we not calling Waldemar Cierpinski the greatest marathon runner ever? His two Olympic golds are 100% more than what Kipchoge has. Idiot.


    What is the need for name calling? You must be American.
    However, an easy answer to your question would be that WC is a confirmed doper from East German notations. Second, WC never held the WR in the marathon. Comparing times from different eras is relatively insignificant as the major factor of comparison.


    Oh? So now times do matter?? When it suits you?

    WC is just about a confirmed doper as Kipchoge is. Kipchoge is on the fancy bears list and WC was allegedly in some E German documentation and we have to trust this one guy who no one knows what kind of agenda he had. Never really proved out to be 100% doped. Confirmed is quite the stretch.


    As it suits me? A WR is a WR whether it is 2,30 or 2,00. It is a world record. First place in the Olympic Games is a gold medal. Times are essentially irrelevant when comparing athletes of different eras. You think your Ben True is better than Kuts? Come now, let's use some sence.

    As far as Scandinavian, Finland is considered by most (if not all Europeans) as a Nordic country. Not the same, but is typically in a group with NOR/SWE/ISL/DEN when athletics are involved.
  • Gahahssh
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 11:32am CDT
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    What’s his training like? Who coaches him?
  • KB in da house
    9 months ago 08/17/2019 12:20pm CDT
    re: Gahahssh
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    Berglund's run = 3:31 in Monaco
  • bpbungis
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    9 months ago 08/17/2019 12:48pm CDT
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    Janne Bengtsson, 72, is his coach. Berglund started to do double threshold runs quite recently and he says it turned out well. I can translate an article about it