David Rudisha | The King of the 800m 

Implicit Nick Symmonds collab lol. Great vid as always.

Love the early day digging what a treat of info he broke 1:50 in his first 800m

David Rudisha is one of the most underrated athletes, he is often completely forgotten when these best /top athlete lists His 2012 London Olympic Gold win was perfect, he was majestic & his win delighted everyone who witnessed it❤

wait so he just got thrown into an 800 and broke 1:50? 😭 man why cant i do that

I was in a college short stories class in spring of 2013. Our teacher was young and hip and decided to engage the class by having all of us make twitter accounts and tweet about the stories we were reading. She strongly encouraged us to make new accounts for this but dumbass me decided to just use my personal account. I was not too bothered by this until one day she logged into her account in front of the class and scrolled through her home page where all of our tweets filled the screen… or rather the classes tweets about the stories plus a bunch of my personal tweets. Fortunately this was before it was custom to post psycho shit on main, but being only a few months after the London 2012 Olympics I had been watching rudisha’s iconic 800 WR and tweeted “I wish I could run like David rudisha”. This off topic tweet was now on display in front of my entire class, but before I had the chance to be embarrassed I heard a bunch of panicked kids behind me saying “fuck I didn’t do the reading last night! Who is David rudisha was he in the story?” Anyways incredible athlete, arguably one of the most impressive WRs of all time in one of the best track and field races of all time.

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I am, and will always be Rudisha fan, I always thought he deserved as much recognition as Usain Bolt, though I'm Jamaican, the man is like a machine..

Crazy how I knew exactly what was going on even when the video was blurred. The commentating is amazing!

I think the middle distance is where you see the most specialization cuz the difference between the 400m, 800m, and 1500m is just so crazy

The London 2012 800m Final is the greatest sporting event I have seen on live television, by far. And that’s saying a lot, considering how many hours of NCAA March Madness I’ve logged over the years (basketball fans if u know u know!) This is also one of the main events that continues to inspire me to stay healthy, stay active, eat well, focus, and be proud - if not also extremely humbled by the top sportsmanship of this level. In the age of Bolt and Rudisha, it is almost impossible to imagine anyone achieving greater times than they have achieved. Their bodies may have been prime for the respective events from the start, but their sheer dedication to running perfection is and will always be astounding. Bless them.

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Such great running form and an even more splendid athlete! Love David Rudisha!

thank you, that was a nice learning experience about an absolute iconic athlete. Well done

Thanks for continuing to make great content! Simply the best.

awesome vid as always, keep it up!

Great video! Ive always been in awe of David, and this more in depth view of his life was really entertaining and interesting

Excellent short doco. Love the original commentary in multiple languages. David Rudisha is so physically imposing, with a muscular upper body more like a 400m hurdler. He really powers forward with his shoulders, giving that extra impetus to his long stride. Great runner to have watched.

Fantastic documentary- thanks!

Fantastic video, DL Rudisha is one of my favourite athletes in every sports! A true legend and the best 800ms runner of all time. 🔝🔥👏👏👏

Great video man

Great video, I personally think his win at London 2012 is the single greatest track performance of all time. Unbelievable running all across that field and he was so clear!

High quality video!

Throughout my high school career, rudisha had slowly become one of if not my favorite runner. He has such a diligent style and a flawless and effortless form. Also he has been, and might be for another few decades, the greatest 800m athlete of all time.

Big up David Rudisha!

Man he could have gone 1:39 if injuries didn’t hold him back.

It doesn’t matter if David won other races or indoors his 800metres world record in 2012 is considered the worlds greatest track race of all time, it was pure perfection and poetry in motion by Rudisha and all of the runners from first to last everyone in that race would have held the world record I’d they had run those times in the past. He created magic that night and none of those runner’s including Rudisha would ever achieve a feat like that again. It was simply the greatest world record race of any kind to witness and that’s why he is so special and what he will be rembered for even if he under achieved afterwards. Hats the mark of a great once in a lifetime champion and world record holder like Usain Bolt and Rudisha. Usain Bolt single handededly made track and field athletics a glamorous and popular sport after all the drug saddled Russian, East German, Chinese and Czech athletes and the 90s Americans had brought the sport into disrepute and made every world record up till end of the 20th century a nightmare of a drugs cheating joke. No 20th century athletics world record stilll standing or even in the past can be taken seriously as everyone was fuelled by doping agents, from Carl Lewis, to Flo Jo to Marion jones, linford Christie, , Kratchilova, Heineken Drechsler and all the ova’s that ever came out of Eastern Europe from Bulgaria to Russia. The whole of the 20th century sport was a drugs cheaters paradise.

Nick just went to the wrong Olympics wouldve medaled or won another Olympics in the past 8 years

I love the montages. They make these videos 11:56

I wish we could see Rudisha in a one mile race. I reckon he could place well even without changing his training at all.

Nice vid

These guys are basically sprinting throughout

Kenya is an exceptional country in terms of running ability. Kalenjin genes are strong.

Hah seeing marcin lewandowski in that junior 800 championship race, fun.

Mohammed Aman would set a new Etheopian national record and lifetime best time of 1:43.20 and place SIXTH IN THE RACE. SIXTH!

Breaking 1:45 at age 19 is insanity

The last thing I heard is he survived a huge accident, and I have not seen him race on a track recently

5:58 Henglo isnt Hungary, its in the Netherlands :p

800m is that weird middle distance that doesnt stack well with 400m or 1500m

hearing mediocre marks for Rudisha when my Pr is 1:45.37 hurts hahaha just shows how elite 1:41 and under was.

You’ll see specialisation in some athletes, such as Ben Johnson and Nesta Carter. Nesta did have some decent 200m times, but nothing spectacular. He was geared towards 100m due to a stocky and powerful build. But you’re right in most cases. For example, most marathon champions were already masters at 10,000m down to 5000m before they table the marathon. Gebrselassie for example.

6:00 this is in the netherlands, but great video apart from that

AT THEIR BEST..Kiopkiter..coe..cruz... what a. Race that would be

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He broke 1:50 in high school? Dangggggg.

Wht became of him?

Meanwhile I struggle to get beneath 1:56 lol

This is like crouser in the shot

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Rudisha’sv2012 World record breaking 800 metres final has to be the greatest athletic race of all time in any running event and competition. It is the most perfect, most amazing and most beautiful race ever seen on an athletics track whether you watched it live or on TV doesn’t matter it was so surreal that it felt as if time and space were suspended from the beginning when Rudisha led the race to the last man Britains Osagie to cross the line all runners in that race had achieved a life time best, National records and an unbelievably fantastic world record that would remain etched in everyone’s memory of that magical night. I can still picture the race in my head as it started and everyone holding their breath I awe of Rudisha’s beautifully executed running style, like a delicate ballet dancer floating through the air from the gun’s blast to the finish line. I can’t even remember Usain Bolt’s world record breaking 100metres final and am not a fan of the 800 metres cos it’s such a tough and unforgiving race. But David Rudisha, made it appear so beautiful and so magical for everyone watching that night

Blurring the video was infuriating

Bro just casually broke 1:50 in his first 800 race…wth

The intentional blurring is really annoying. Don't think I'll watch anymore of these.

There is no way to run the 800 like this and he doesn't have a 44 or better 400 or a 3:50 or so mile

To know that Seb Coe held this world record for 16 years is insanity. I never quite trusted Wilson Kipketer. David Rudisha is the true middle distance sprinter though 👍

Definitely one of the best ever. It was sad to see him start doping to get the world record and then the aftermath that followed. But sadly this is the Kenyan way. The athletes are taken advantage of by so many agent's and coaches.

He just disappeared.. Don't trust super human times

wilson kipketer is the goat in my books the imrpovement from 1:41;75 to 1:41:11 is much greater than from david. he aswell had a smoother stride and got 3 world outdoor championship titles. he aswell dominated 800 indoors something david never did, and he stills holds the indoor WR

Rudisha is cracked, but the 800 still sucks in my opinion, its too much pain

14:08 nick symmonds jumpscare