Track & Field News marathon ratings for 2019 are out:
MARATHON
1. Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia)
2. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya)
3. Lawrence Cherono (Kenya)
4. Lelisa Desisa (Ethiopia)
5. Berhanu Legesse (Ethiopia)
6. Mosinet Geremew (Ethiopia)
7. Mule Wasihun (Ethiopia)
8. Vincent Torotich (Kenya)
9. Geoffrey Kamworor (Kenya)
10. Getaneh Tamire (Ethiopia)
Bekele over Kipchoge.
I like it.
I love it.
I sure hope he can get a proper full length prep for whichever marathon(s) he races in 2020. He still has the highest ceiling in long distance running, no doubt about it.
Ridiculous. Until you knock the king off the chair, nobody else should be #1.
Fake news.
Well Bekele did run faster this year
Where's that Banana Broad character?
We're only making plans, for Nigel. We only want what's best for him. We're only making plans, for Nigel. Nigel just needs that helping hand.
Kipchoge has beaten Bekele every time they've raced, but I notice everyone keeps demanding a rematch until they get the result they want. It will be the same if Bekele doesn't win in London (after the usual 'minimal' training). But if he wins, that will be the last marathon they race together.
So far, Kipchoge has a much better marathon career, overall.
2019, though, Bekele ran much faster than Kipchoge in the marathon. Viena was not a marathon, as it was run under different rules and nobody else was competing.
Bekele: 2:01:41, Berlin
Kipchoge: 2:02:37, London
If someone deserves to be numero uno for 2019, it has to be good old Kenenisa.
Yet somehow most bodies decided to go with Kipchoge as athlete of the year. People trying to make like he didn’t actually run 1:59 with his own legs are deluded. It was a big deal, covered in mainstream media and the reason why when someone finally breaks 2 in a real marathon, there won’t be heralded as much.
Kipchoge took a shortcut, and did his freakshow which was heavily sponsored to attact the media, and it worked.
But at the end, it was an exhibition where he was set up to win in conditions which will never happen in a real race. If anything, we now know his limit. He will never be able to replicate it in a real race.
As the sport goes, Bekele end the year as number 1 for marathon and deserves it since he has won the biggest marathon of the year with the best time.
DC Wonk wrote:
Ridiculous. Until you knock the king off the chair, nobody else should be #1.
This is a rating for 2019. Period. Not an all time best list.
And someone said "fake news" as if incapable of looking up the TFN ratings.
God help us all.
El Keniano wrote:
Kipchoge has beaten Bekele every time they've raced, but I notice everyone keeps demanding a rematch until they get the result they want. It will be the same if Bekele doesn't win in London (after the usual 'minimal' training). But if he wins, that will be the last marathon they race together.
Very well stated.
Dont work like that wrote:
DC Wonk wrote:
Ridiculous. Until you knock the king off the chair, nobody else should be #1.
This is a rating for 2019. Period. Not an all time best list.
And someone said "fake news" as if incapable of looking up the TFN ratings.
God help us all.
Already did that you dweeb.
Please post a link for the rankings then because the most recent rankings on the website are 2018.
See here:
https://trackandfieldnews.com/mens-world-rankings-by-event/Dont work like that wrote:
DC Wonk wrote:
Ridiculous. Until you knock the king off the chair, nobody else should be #1.
This is a rating for 2019. Period. Not an all time best list.
And someone said "fake news" as if incapable of looking up the TFN ratings.
God help us all.
Using this logic one can have Rice ranked higher than Alabama in football in certain weeks during the season.
Poor loser Bekele quits when he knows Eliud or anyone else will beat him. Happened in a few marathons Eliud won. Bekele DNF
Kipchoge has been the better marathoner so far but Bekele is the greatest distance runner of all time. He ran much faster in a real race than Kipchoge this year and also put in one of the most incredible comebacks in marathon history. London was a great race for sure as well though. It's fair to have Bekele #1. It could go either way. Also for the guy who said Ineos would overshadow a real sub 2 you must be a fool. No one that follows running gave a damn about that precisely because we knew what the outcome was going to be. It was unnecessary and if Ineos wasn't giving Kipchoge a ton of money he wouldn't have even been there. Kipchoge and Bekele going for a true WR in Berlin would have been much better and we know that because Kosgei smashing the WR overshadowed the Ineos challenge.
El Keniano wrote:
Kipchoge has beaten Bekele every time they've raced, but I notice everyone keeps demanding a rematch until they get the result they want. It will be the same if Bekele doesn't win in London (after the usual 'minimal' training). But if he wins, that will be the last marathon they race together.
every time someone mentions how Bekele is the better runner than kipchoge that also triggers some fans.
El Keniano wrote:
Yet somehow most bodies decided to go with Kipchoge as athlete of the year. People trying to make like he didn’t actually run 1:59 with his own legs are deluded. It was a big deal, covered in mainstream media and the reason why when someone finally breaks 2 in a real marathon, there won’t be heralded as much.
How is that a good thing in any way? He needed special shoes, a wall of pacers, and a special course in order to accomplish what he did. So when somebody does it in an actual race, they won’t be heralded as much, and that is a good thing? How?
El Keniano wrote:
Kipchoge has beaten Bekele every time they've raced, but I notice everyone keeps demanding a rematch until they get the result they want. It will be the same if Bekele doesn't win in London (after the usual 'minimal' training). But if he wins, that will be the last marathon they race together.
No he hasn't and you would know this if you were actually a Kenyan.