Men's 1500m - 2021 NCAA outdoor track and field championship 

Pffft. No chance.

reading these comments from 3 years ago is so satisfying!

What is amazing is how much faster Hocker and Neguse ran in the Olympics vs NCAA race. Just Crazy Fast Olympic Record🥇🇺🇸🥉🇺🇸🎉

Cole Hocker Runs a 3:35 then a 13:18 in the same day, less than 2 hrs apart, Is this true? He is a Freshman and only 19....

@@billcore6295 yeah he’s pretty insane

@@billcore6295 he's technically a sophomore but has freshman eligibility. he graduated high school in 2019

He has such a lethal kick but looks like he is straining - usually kickers have relaxed smooth form.

@@billcore6295 just turned 20 a few days ago, but absolutely insane

HOCK SMASH

OMG in the olympics too

Unless your Jakob Ingebrigtson then you can’t convince me Cole is out kicking him. Or maybe Josh Kerr. Kerr’s kick at the olympics got him 3rd and almost 2nd.

@@ianbusche1471comment aged well

I think that being 20 years old as a freshman probably gave him an advantage

Comment aged extremely well in Paris😂

@ianbusche1471: Your comment is killing me 😂😂 you literally just predicted the Olympic final Paris this aged perfectly

centro is washed up how DARE you compare the two.

@@kaluker1 Sleep on Centro all you want but he always shows up when it matters

@@kaluker1 Well seeing that Centro legit throw that almost exact same time down in May, he definitely isn't.

@@kaluker1 he is also an Olympic champion 😑

@@garrettricardo well that doesn’t say too much considering his race was VERY tactical, I would say just his times this season prove he’s not washed or he’s at least really good, I encourage you to rewatch the race

Agreed

Yea he was so sneaky there. And you can see Nuguse slowed down a bit thinking he had it made, and then looked up and absolutely shit himself

Was that a 52 second last lap?

he might even win Gold at the Olympics one day!

this aged very well

@@fliggle10 this aged very very well

@@coldplayer9403 I said before the race “hocker will win if hes within 5 meters”

Both Hocker and Kessler are brilliant YOUNG runners. But you are talking about High School/College level sport. The "Open" grade is a step up. Both still need experience. By the time of the next Olympics (3 or 4 years away) they should be "just right". They still need to cut off another 5 seconds from their PB 1500m times to be competitive Internationally. I believe they can both do that. However, both have good finishing speed so are capable of causing an upset in a "slow run" 1500m. Hopefully they don't end up doing an "Alan Webb" who never achieved anything internationally but was a star in US domestic competitions.

buddy predicted the future

Spot on my man!

@@philomenaakpanaadie2015 age extremely well. Not just in 2021, but also 2024

the kick alone could make him the jakob killer in the future (sometimes)

@@chinter cole hocker is insanely fast but he is no jakob

@@EpicGamer427 This is true. But Centro is no Kiprop and he still won. In a tactical race it's going to come down to positioning and kick, and if the Olympics becomes that, guess who has the fastest 100m...?

@@chinter kiprop was a dumbass for not going all out that race. jakob in my opinion knows what he has to do (try and out kick cheriyot

@@EpicGamer427 there's a 90% chance of that happening and that makes it a duel between him and cheruiyot. But the Olympics tend to be run much more conservatively than a diamond league meet as there are no rabbits. It's really anyone's race and a dark horse, maybe even a Josh Kerr might sneak in and surprise everyone

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON Actually, lots of people care - the closing speed we witnessed here is unlike any other. And deserves special mention :)

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON The point was he was probably considered really fast by everyone in his high school, which shows Cole is unreal for a middle distance runner.

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON Oh look another insufferable douchebag.

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON manners-son....

@NOTREALLY HANKAARON I do….

think he may be a redshirt

He's a sophomore the commentators don't know shit

@@systemicchaos3921 think technically he’d be a freshman for the outdoor season since covid canceled his real freshman season but I could be wrong

I'm thinking about next year. Nuguse and Cole Hocker. Kipsang & Romo (3:38 each this race) are freshman and sophomores respectively. Then throw in Hobbs Kessler. Pretty damn exciting. Unless of course Jakob Ingebrigsten decides to go to college in the U.S. (3:28 last year as a teenager)

@@Pudnite but having freshman eligibility is not the same as being a freshman. A year of development is quite big at that age

got boxed in a few days ago and ended with a gold medal 🔥

Hes a beast but he's no pre. Prefontaine did not run from behind. He didn't ran tactical races and didn't save for a kick. Dont compare a talented college runner to pre. All these 1500 runners do these days is jog for 3 laps then kick.

@@joefixitplays2286 Hocker is already better than Prefontaine. Better PRs, better kick, better as a role model.

@@joefixitplays2286 pre was a great runner but can sometimes be idolized when he shouldn't be. Hocker is already faster in the 1500m and 5k.

I never said pre was faster but he does not have pre's grit.Also times have gotten significantly faster in just the last 10 years not counting when pre was running

@@joefixitplays2286 u just a hater lol

Where’d you get that

@@peterd1623 he split 1:48.8 for his last 800, you can time it yourself... fucking wild

@Baum Squad uhhh not quite that would be 1:46

It was more of a 1:49 wow

@@nohands6865 geeeeeez

Well guess what! Olympic gold medalist!!

It's almost as if sabotaging interest in the race is their goal.

1:48.8...

lovely prediction that came true

yeah... definitely only won because of that :P

He also had the stronger runner advantage

Dis you say that only to see what replies you'd get?? Smh

i have really enjoyed watching these races from uk, and love Cole Hockers style of running, but there are some seriously speedy europeans and africans so will be interesting if the olympic 1500 is fast from the gun will he be able to run some 7/8 seconds faster,

Ingebrigtsen ran a 3:31 this year. He's gonna be tough to beat.

key point brother thanks for mentioning that that makes it a huge run

Are you serious?

His race was set up completely different. If he was in this same race I don’t think he could hang with how quick they closed.

@@jakobsayers9166 who knows Kessler closed well in his race although not as fast he hung with the best

@@jakobsayers9166 yeah fr I would still give it to Hocker

This is a damn championship, Kessler ran a fricking time trial. A championship is about winning, and in this case it was tactical, and the first half was quite slow, causing the second half to be blistering. Yes Kessler can kick, but he kept an honest pace throughout the whole race. And to be honest, Hobbs can't kick a 52 closing 400.

Troll face

what the hell

Lmao

Yeah when the pace doesnt make the standard. Centrowitz in Rio won a gold because of a slow pace and then he had good position to out kick

Pre is dead af

@@richardthegingerbo909 you’ll be some day too.

Well I mean tbh Nico Young is a year younger than him and is a far superior Long-distance runner than Hocker. Like Nico Young has already broken 30 while Hocker has barely broken 32 in XC, with only 7 seconds between both for the 5k. (Tho this is me comparing them as both of their true freshman times, not of the extra year of eligibility type deal since Hocker does have an advantage.)

@@TreeforLife ha knew you fan boys would have more excuses. So next year nico will run Hockers time. I’ll keep waiting, I’m sure next year you guys will say ...well Nico blah blah. Better LD runner or not doesn’t matter I’m comparing both the events they do on the track.

@@banksj54 I mean I’m not a fan boy of him at all. You can think I am, and try to act like I believe Hocker is this terrible runner and soo over overrated. The mans put up Olympic trials times as a “sophomore.” (by his 2nd year in college) I like Nico Young, same for Cole Hocker. I also like Connor Mantz, Eduardo Herrera, Wesley Kiptoo… etc. While I do have my own biases ofc, I also know that You also need to remember these guys are long distance runner/ Cross country runners. These guys do more than just the 1500 and 5k. They also do 10k’s, mile, even the 800 (which I believe Hocker could be insanely good at if he were to do it) and next year, Nico might just run his times. Or maybe not. I believe he could, but I also believe Nico Young has been a far superior XC guy than Hocker (as proven by his ring) and Hocker is really a middle distance guy due to the kick he can do (and how his best two races aren’t a long distance event, and also because he’s never ran an event higher than a 5k) while Nico Young lays the law down in the 10k. Hocker is really a better comparison to Centro tbh, and not even to Nico Young. They’re just compared due to being at the top of the game for as young as they are.

Had the same thought. He drifted left further into lane one in the last 20 meters.

He was ahead of nuguse and pulling away. Like any racing sport, boxing someone in is a strategy as long as it’s not dangerous.

Stop it with these excuses man

Its even worse in the international races. Plenty of 'bump-and-run' and 'elbows flying' in those races, and as long as no one falls down then no one gets penalized. So just consider it good training for Hocker for any European races he'll compete in in the future.

@@EVW.G It's interesting, that Cole's "dodgy" tactics have been mentioned quite a few times on the "Let's Run" forums. BTW, USE YOUR EYES and YOUR BRAINS!!!!

Nice job Cole

he didnt make it through the semi's. he really fell apart with about 250 to go

Hole cocker

He kicks just like his dad too

@Baum Squad he definitely did. He cut right in front of him so that he couldn’t get by.

@Baum Squad I wasn’t going to say anything but I also noticed Hocker went from almost touching the outer line of the lane off the corner to running practically in the middle of lane 1, squeezing (Nuguse?). To avoid any suspicion it’s best to just run your line at that point after the curve rather than veer into other opponent. If you replay it, you see it. But technically I think it was legal, his opponent simply didn’t have the gas left to push ahead regardless. What a race!

Weird way of saying passing Nuguse at the end.

@Baum Squad I look forward to those finals for sure!

Centro still winning

Would really love to see Cole or Coop beat him to shut his die hard fans down

@@trevorturner8037 r u mad cole and coop have all the 8th graders fan girling so hard every1 doubted centro at begining of the season centro stay winning tho.

@@speedybull0911 funny you call Cooper and Cole’s fans 8th graders when your 30 year old idol pouted like a 5th grader to some 20 year olds. From the looks of it Cooper and Cole stay winning too. Cole won the 1500 national title and Cooper won the 5K breaking the Oregon record not to mention back in indoor when he broke the indoor mile NCAA record. Face it, your boy Centro is washed up and feels threatened by these guys

@@trevorturner8037 lol 'washed up' why u deeping it bro. He ran a 3:35 ez a month ago and did 3x800 all sub 1:53 last week. Seems like a champ to me he making olympic final. Hocker dont have olympic standard anyway so he wont go but nuguse can and teare has no way of getting op 3 in the 5k w the talent in the field.