MOST INSANE SPLITS IN RACE

[SQUACKEE]

i knew a high school 2-miler who went out in 1:58 on his way to a 9:20. can you top that?

[DrJay]

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Hard to top that one. In the 1977 Junior Olympic regional or nationals, Tommy Martin (Evansville, IN) went out in 49.something in the 880 on his way to about a 1:51. He still holds the Indiana HS state meet record for 880/800, I believe.

[Kurt Francis]

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Phillipe(?) Williams, University of South Carolina (1988)...went out in 21.7 on his way to a painful 51 sec. 400m! in the '88 Metro Conference Decathlon.

The guy was a phenomenal talent...26' indoor long jump, 16' vaulter, fast, springy, but not gifted with the greatest sense of pace

My teammate was in the race with Phillipe and was a 49.9 400 guy himself. He ended up going out in 23.5 and wondered why he was getting his butt kicked in the process! Just goes to show you that a man's got to know his limitations

Kurt

[bbellows23]

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>Hard to top that one. In the 1977 Junior Olympic regional or nationals, Tommy
>Martin (Evansville, IN) went out in 49.something in the 880 on his way to about
>a 1:51. He still holds the Indiana HS state meet record for 880/800, I believe.

I think that race was shown on wide world of
sports or something like that. I remember watching it on TV.

[Jon]

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For a selected 5000m of her 10,000m WR run, Wang Junxia ran some insane time (around 14:26 I think) - faster than Bo Jiang's WR at the time. Scary to think about what time Wang could have ran for the 5000m had she given it a serious go.

The first half of Paula's Marathon WR run was timed in 68:02 - a time that only 3 women bettered in 2003. The craziness didn't end there, however, as the second half of the race was covered in 67:23 - a time that no other women bettered that year! The first half of her London Marathon this year was covered in 68:27 - the unofficial WL time for women this year.

What was Kipketer's 400m split en route to his WR? I seem to remember it was 47 or 48 seconds. Crazy... Just as crazy as Bekele's 5km splits during his 10,000m WR run.

[kuha]

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In Kipketer's WR at Zurich, the pacesetter went through in 48.10; Kipketer was right behind at 48.3. He was FLYING.

[jrun]

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>i knew a high school 2-miler who went out in 1:58 on his way to a 9:20. can you
>top that?

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On the HS beat, reports are that Gerry Lindgren once went out in 53 (then-400 PR) en route to a 4.26 mile.

[buckeye II]

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Bile's 1:46.0 final 800 split of a WC 1500 ('85? 87?). How many people in the world could be waiting, jump in with 800 to go, and beat him?

HS: Nelloms hit a 20.3 final 200 in a 400 carry by my watch. Moving start of course. Over :27 on the initial 200.

[xcfan]

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MJ's split on the wr 4x400 relay was the first 200
in 20.9?

[trackworld]

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>For a selected 5000m of her 10,000m WR run, Wang Junxia ran some insane time
>(around 14:26 I think) - faster than Bo Jiang's WR at the time. Scary to think
>about what time Wang could have ran for the 5000m had she given it a serious
>go.

Yeah - that was the last 5000m in which Wang ran 14:26

Also, how bout Fred Newhouse's crazy opening 200m in his 400m races. He normally split the first 200m between 20.2-20.6

[buckeye II]

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Also, how bout Fred Newhouse's crazy opening 200m in his 400m races.
>He normally split the first 200m between 20.2-20.6

This shows what a tough guy he must've been to continue to do this. Once seems like it would be enough discomfort for memory's sake.

[Powell]

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I don't have the numbers at hand, but Shaheen ran some pretty crazy up-and-down splits in the 2003 WCh.

Filbert Bayi was known for starting races super fast. In the 1980 Olympics steeplechase, he was timed in 2:38.8 at 1000 and 5:20.3 at 2000 (the WR at the time was 8:08.02). Not surprisingly he ran the last km outside 2:52 and lost to Bronislaw Malinowski who was over 5 seconds down at 2000.

And how about Bekele's last lap in Athens 10000? 53.0 en route to 27:05!

I've also been thinking of some insanely slow splits. One example would be the Athens women's 5000 final, with the first 600 run in 2:04 (roughly 17:13 pace!!!). The most amazing thing is that after such an opening Defar went on to run 14:45.

[EPelle]

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2001.05.17 -- Virginia, Concorde District

1,600m: Alan Webb 4.06,74 (22-second negative split! 2.14-1.52 .. 55 3:rd lap; 57 closer) within an 80 minute time frame where he also ran an open 49,29 and a 1.49,5
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[SQUACKEE]

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when liquori beat ryan

2:03-1:51!!!

[xcfan]

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Saw a high school 800 runner go out in 53.0
come home in 63.0!!!