There hasn’t been one race walker faster than AlSal since. He should’ve walked the 50km in the Olympics.
There hasn’t been one race walker faster than AlSal since. He should’ve walked the 50km in the Olympics.
skep tic wrote:
OTM through Canada wrote:
Speedy Jose Gomez lays waste to Salazar in the last 250 in the 1983 Prefontaine Classic 10,000.
This is the first time I've seen clips from either event. I watched the women's 1984 Olympic Trials Marathon, but missed the men's Trials. I was 14 or 15, and not a runner until a year later, but was already becoming a running fan.
https://youtu.be/Ds5vXqFjbx4Amazing how many spectators there are in the stands
Not amazing, it's Eugene. Been viewing lots of video from past track events lately and most all the meets held outside of Eugene are embarrassingly sparse.
Yes, New York '82, four second win.
zoomx83 wrote:
To save all the trouble, the only time you'll see Salazar outkick anyone is Boston 82.
He really, really should have gone the ultra route a lot earlier in his career.
He out kicked Michael Musyoki in the last 1/2 miles of the 1983 Phoenix International Road Race.
May have been 84 but I believe it was 83.
NYC 81 wrote:
zoomx83 wrote:
To save all the trouble, the only time you'll see Salazar outkick anyone is Boston 82.
He really, really should have gone the ultra route a lot earlier in his career.
He out kicked Michael Musyoki in the last 1/2 miles of the 1983 Phoenix International Road Race.
May have been 84 but I believe it was 83.
1983. But that's off topic.
https://youtu.be/jCfAgyIpGOw?t=675Four up sprint:
https://youtu.be/rvVqNSOypzY?t=2140Ackley wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
He did outkick Virgin a few times and until the wheels fell off in early 1983, he was the world's best marathoner.
You're probably joking about him running ultras. He did run Comrades, but that was long after his competitive career was over and he ran over 100 races during his career that were more impressive.
People forget how great Salazar was.
What would be the reaction on these boards if a 23 year old American set a World Record* on the New York Marathon course without pacesetters? Then followed that up the next Spring by winning Boston and then setting American records at 5k and 10k approximately two months later -- all before the age of 24.
If you were a high school runner in the 80s, Salazar was god-like. Even with that Frankenstein stride.
OTM through Canada wrote:
This was his first loss to an American in the marathon.
https://youtu.be/2waANko4YLg?t=979
*Ahem*
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