Letesenbet Gidey SMASHES Half Marathon World Record || 2021 Valencia Half Marathon 

She’s on a different level to the rest of the world. Simply unbelievable.

​@@Thegardener87 On a different level but keeps getting beaten head to head by Hassan on the track. Perhaps Gidey should move up to the marathon at major championships.

@@XDF745 I think that there's a distance beyond which no one catch up to her. Hassan's PB at 10,000 is only 5 seconds slower than Giday's, but you can't out-kick someone who's a minute ahead of you.

@@XDF745 her best distances so far have been 15k and half-marathon road races. Track is a little short and strategy-oriented for the way she runs (pacing over strategy, no kick, just adding a bit of pace every few kilometers). I bet Hassan could beat Giday's 5000 WR and Giday could beat Hassan's 1 hour record. Giday seems a little young to go up to Marathon, but I bet she'll do it eventually.

@@jkf9167 That's why I said she should move up to the marathon because at Worlds and Olympics there's nothing between 10000m and marathon.

on her first attempt at the distance

Too good to be true

Absolutely. Her performance was nothing short of legendary.

She **OBLITERATED** the WR

@@larsrytter1052 I wouldn't count 100m, 200m, 400m or 800m distance running 🤣

@@larsrytter1052 don’t even know what that means. Does she have to run WR for 5/8/10/12/15/16/20/21.1/25/30/42.2 to be the greatest female distance runner doofus? 🤣

@@RunForPeace-hk1cu Pretty obvious he means ultra distances

I see Hassan at present being the best distance runner with Olympic gold at 5,000m & 10,000m with a rare range of fast times from 800m to half marathon. Gidey got a bronze at 10,000m only in Olympics. Gidey lacks finishing pace over the last few laps like we saw her run in the Olympics. I doubt she’ll beat Hassan at 5000m or 10,000m on the track. I see Gidey being a top class marathoner in the future.

@@APBCTechnique Hassan can't beat her WRs though , can she? And Gidey is only 23. Better than most people ever were at that age. She'll learn a lil bit more about championships racing but there's no doubt she's the greatest

The track time is less good than the road time, compare with men also

@@jojolords4523 Do not discuss it. Letesenbet in some weeks can smash the Sifan record becoming in the first woman over 20 kilometers in one hour!

@@cbaron1234 Look, the track one hour run is not executed that often, Mo Farah holds it on the men side, it's not an optimized record like the half marathon, because there is way less competition, that's all

@@jojolords4523 absolutely

I still believe she can’t beat Sifan Hassan in any competition. Some athletes strive in Solo missions like Geday.

Slow down there. Haile and Kenensia are something else.. Letesenbet is too. On the women's shes up there. Now she needs to win championships nd olympics like tirunesh dibaba

“Running with elite men” lol 😂 uh, I think they’re called PACERS!

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@@waterproof4403 58k subscribers don't think so, though I'm not one of them.

True, looks incredibly smooth. What do you tynk of her arm swing though?

@@yaksofirst2154 Personally I think it's fine and not as exaggerated as you may first think - if you watch her run over all her races you will notice that the swing of her arms varies considerably depending upon how quick she is travelling and how much effort she is putting it. Her arm swing is far less pronounced in the early stages of her races but as she ups the tempo or is under pressure in a race she will exaggerate her arm movement in line with that increase in effort - this is normal for almost every runner. It's worth looking at her across a variety of races to observe this. But I must say that even when her arm swing is at its most pronounced it is still very rhythmic and smooth. Beautiful to watch.

@@oldmanbanksia you sound like a great coach. Intereseting inputs.

The extremely high heel kick and perfect balance remind me so much of Bekele. What an astonishing, exciting athlete Giday is, I can't wait to watch her break the impenetrable barriers of 14:00 for 5K and 29:00 for 10K.

She will indeed.

Sorry but the athlete of the year will be someone that won atleast one gold medal at Tokyo. As great of a performance as it was the half marathon get you exactly zero street cred in the long term.

i did the Lisbon half couple of years back , and i had the exact same feeling.the elites were freaking flying it looked surreal. I Felt like a midget next to giants … i finished @1:45 , but was turtlesh compared to them

@@stalin1909 great time bro!!

Do you know what the marathon equivalent it.

That is mental

@@AlexM-hm2wb insane

The scoring tables don’t take into account the effect of the super shoes .

@@AlexM-hm2wb The equivalent in the men's marathon is 2:01:11 and in the women's marathon it's 2:11:17, both of which are ahead of the current world records.

Unfortunately those meets with pacers give you zero street cred. Its at championship level where it counts. Just think. Hassan blew past Gidey in both popularity and credibility in Tokyo. Gidey belongs on the roads and now being part of the NN running team she will be encouraged to moved in that direction.

I run 19 mins 5k practically dying at the end, she does 5k of half marathon in less than 15 and I’m a man it’s crazy how fast pros are

Nati? You got tired of saying her track record shouldn’t count?

@@mdavidom5903 😂

She'll get her redemption in Paris 2024

A doper. E-P-O. OMG.

@@icarus8471 shut up

She runs alright, too!

Still couldn’t beat the top guys times.

@@kovy689 yeah no shit, so? Does it make you feel better about yourself?

@@stevenlobby4119 Chill out, little man. She’s not gonna jump thru your screen to bang you. Relax.

@@kovy689 Not a single soul asked about that. That would be borderline impossible and not nesicary to acomplish male runner times as a female dumbass🤦‍♂️

@@kovy689 i am a woman but go off

She had world class competitors in this race. It would have been head to head if they'd been able to keep up. It only seems like a time trial because she put them away early.. I understand that on the track/at shorter distances, that she has liabilities related to kick and strategy, and that something like her 5000m record hasn't been accompanied by the kind of wins you'd expect from a world record holder. But her most dominant wins have been on the road at 15k plus. At the 1/2 Marathon, if someone's gonna have to run around 63 minutes, she'll win head to head. Her reputation as a time trial-er is partly because the distances she runs on the track are shorter than her strongest distances. For instance, if her 10,000 meter time is 5 seconds faster than Sifan Hassan's PB, then Hassan can take advantage of her superior kick to win races. But if her half marathon time is more than a minute faster than her closest competitor, they'll have to catch her first. And the way she runs consistent, incremental negative splits, it could feel to her competitors as if she's making a move against them every couple of kilometers. I hope she can eventually extend her distance to marathons.

@@jkf9167 appreciate the comment Josh. I think you are on to something particularly with longer distance. However, if Hassan tucks in and hang on to dear life, I can’t help but think Hassan can pip Gidey at the line regardless of distance. Sort of like a sprinting cyclist sitting on the wheels entire race and just crank it up in last 200m. I believe the pace that they are running drafting do matter albeit not as much as in cycling but enough to be decisive.

@@demultiplexdfunc177 Hassan wouldn't be able to keep up. Hassan's WR hour run was 18.93 km. Gidey's 20 KM split today was under an hour, so Hassan would be over a KM behind. Hassan's PB half marathon is 105:15 to Gidey's 102:52. That's a huge differential compared the the 5 or 10 second gaps between their PBs in track events. Gidey's main problem as a track competitor is that she's a road racer. A competitive track event doesn't lend itself to the kind of obsessive pacing that Gidey likes to do (did you see how often she checked her watch?). And as you mentioned, Gidey doesn't have a strong kick. However road events are generally won by someone pulling away significantly before the last few hundred meters, and by running negative splits that grind down their competitors. And in a road race, Gidey can draft men if she's leading the women.

Gidey is a drug cheat and a disgrace.

@@icarus8471troll

Totally agree

I can feel she can break 2h10m for the full marathon...

@@r.a.6459 I can't see her breaking 2:10, but 2:12 maybe. That would still be huge.

She said that her ultimate goals were a world marathon record and an Olympic gold medal. I wonder if the marathon would be her best shot at gold, considering that they don't have 15k, 20k or half-marathon in the Olympics. I don't imagine that she knows yet.

Maybe 2:11-2:12, but they will not run a sub 1 hour because they will need to run at 2:50min/km which is almost the same pace for her 5000m we but in a half marathon

@@davidwatched935 maybe she will not be the one, but it feels like she will be the one that starts the dream. Like there was the 2h marathon by men

@@TheChessRunner I have a feeling Letesenbet will absolutely destroy the marathon world record soon

Better than Tirunesh Dibaba?

EPO does wonders.

Only problem is she has zero kick on the track so she will never win a championship level track gold. She will move to the roads permanently quite soon.

The greatest is tirunesh dibaba

why would they use female pacers that makes no sense.

1 hour? C'mon man! I like and respect her but 1 hour, that's not gonna happen any time soon.

@@Vivungisport Yes that won't going to happen ever. There is limit in every sport for both male and female athletes. The women can't go under 1 hour. This is physically impossible.

@@milenivanov5436 Tirunesh Dibaba could have in her prime. I have a feeling we will see it soon. Insane

@@Vivungisport it will bro

Not easy to manage all those three parameters for an hour.

The Marathon 🔥

@@alenajzeli6401 no doubt she'll get that too wow

10k roads.

Clearly she's going to rewrite the marathon record books but I think she has plenty unfinished business at 5000/10000m so in my opinion not just yet..

@@jamesparker5666 her track records shouldn't be official

The "future" has already arrived.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Same , been waiting for someone to talk about it.