fastest 5k by American on American soil

[jney]

Anyone?


thanks!

[Marlow]

if this is right - and I think it is - it's a toughie to guess!

Famigletti's 13:11.93 at Walnut, CA Apr 13 last year.

[tandfman]

The times at both the LA and Atlanta Olympics were faster than that. Aouita's 13:05.59 in LA may still be the soil record.

[Marlow]

The times at both the LA and Atlanta Olympics were faster than that. Aouita's 13:05.59 in LA may still be the soil record.

Which, of course, is not the question.

[tandfman]

You're quite right. I mis-read the question. ops:

Coffee time.

[Master Po]

I think Marlow got it right -- after Fam's 13:11 is Kennedy's fastest on US soil -- 13:12.14, Eugene 1996 (which by the way ranks as #15 on BK's career list).

[kuha]

I think Marlow got it right -- after Fam's 13:11 is Kennedy's fastest on US soil -- 13:12.14, Eugene 1996 (which by the way ranks as #15 on BK's career list).

Marlow is a genius... I never would have come up with that...

[jney]

well i thought it said in mensjournal this month (which fam was in) that he ran the 2nd fastest ever on american soil, by an american. maybe read wrong or maybe they got it wrong.


that's why i posed the question.

[tandfman]

I think Marlow is right. I don't know of a faster one.

[stallion]

Well, because of the way you phrased the question, a good lawyer could craft a plausible case for the answer to be Juan Luis Barrios, since he ran 13:11.37 in the same race as Fam, and he could be classified as an American, in the sense that he is a person of the Americas or America, the lands comprising the two continents of the Western Hemisphere, i.e., North America and South America. However, Marlow's answer is probably what the questioner had in mind in posing the inquiry.

[gh]

Before Fam last year, probably Centrowitz's 13:12.91 winning the '82 Pre?

[tandfman]

Before Fam last year, probably Centrowitz's 13:12.91 winning the '82 Pre?

No, I think Master Po was right about Kennedy.

[kuha]

A modest proposal (to gh): One reasonably easy way to stimulate some additional interest in US performers in US meets would be to make this "record" category a bit more prominent...

[tandfman]

A modest proposal (to gh): One reasonably easy way to stimulate some additional interest in US performers in US meets would be to make this "record" category a bit more prominent...

That might work in some events. But in others (the women's 100 and the men's 200 come quickly to mind) it wouldn't make any difference.

[stallion]

Before Fam last year, probably Centrowitz's 13:12.91 winning the '82 Pre?

No, I think Master Po was right about Kennedy.

Yeah, and Kennedy posted another 13:12 in Atlanta in '96 which was slower than his Eugene performance but faster than Centro's.