This Will Never Happen Again || The Incredible Record of Hicham El Guerrouj 

That championship record will always be astonishing to me. What separates Hicham from other middle distance runners of today is his closing speed. He has the natural ability to run sub 56 second laps and kick to a sub 54 on the final lap. It’s honestly unreal what this athlete was able to accomplish, and it’s no surprise that he holds 3 world records that have lasted over 20 years. Imagine what times he would be able to hit if he had the same shoe technology that athletes have today.

The fact he smashed the 2000m world record 4 days after running the 2nd fastest time in history over 3000m, defies being human 🤯

I realize how old I am getting watching this. The footage looks ancient but I was an adult when these races happened. Time is the greatest asset people! Thanks for another amazing upload

Noah Ngeny really pushed Hichaam in that mile. He came so close!!! Just like Lagat in that legendary 1500m

What the F*****CK. 3:49 then a 5th lap?? That man is insane, I truly love him. He is so inspirational.

Hichiam El Guerrouj is the Greatest Miler of all time 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

3:49 at the 1600m mark BLOWS my mind 🤯

Hicham el Guerrouj career is almost like Movie script, full with drama, defeat, disappointment, but somehome Hicham el G. did not give up his Olympic dream. In 1996 :Atlanta Olympics: Falling down in last lap. In 2000 Sydney: losing in the last 50 meter. They only thing that kept him in the olympic race were his World Records & Champions. What Hicham distinguished was his "no-surrender"-Character. He's type guy who is very hard on himself when it comes to training. Talent is not enough. He kept growing with his olympic failures and didn't shrink to blame others. He kept believing, while nobody though that he still had to chance to win 1500m and 5000m in 2004 Athens. Legend...THE GOAT of the mile/1500m.

I did forget about this incredible performance despite getting his autograph in the year 2000. Thanks for this awesome video.

*What an amazing gift he had;* the speed of a gazelle and the stride of a giraffe; *what a talent.* Thanks TRP; great video spotlight.

To set world records in 1999 and which still stand in 2022 is insane! It’s proof how good he was!!

Hicham El Guerrouj is the greatest middle distance runner ever at least in my opinion and these records amazingly were set before Jakob Ingebrigten was even born but Jakob seems to have the potential to break some of them with the likes of Josh Kerr as competition.

Thank you very much for posting this, 23 years later he IS still the best. I will always admire him. Can you imagine an inform Hicham and Jakob these days!?

Hicham el Garrouj deserves a Netflix recognition!

I grew up watching him and Lagat fight it out race after race. I used to root for Lagat, but as his career moved towards the end, I grew fond of Hicham. I was so happy when he finally claimed his first Olympic gold.

The most underrated runner ever, he's the GOAT

bro as a person who is from the same city as hicham i can say that we are really proud of him

My favorite athlete..

The fluidity in Hicham's will never be short of insane to me

No one has forgotten about this amazing record

We were all blessed to see this amazing athlete.

The best ever. Without question.

💥 We Didn’t Forget HEG “ The Greatest “💥

I wish there was HD back then, his performances deserve it. Legend.

The man is blessed by God

I watched all of elguerouj's races live when I was a kid just started running ,what a privilege!

that stride. you literally have to be built for this. light and thin with long and strong legs, insane circulatory system .

Amazing athlete and totally dominated middle distance for almost a decade. Absolute legend!

One of the best channels on YT

From a distance runner thank you for covering this

Imagine the times he would have ran with the new shoe technology? I mean people are still struggling to come close to his WR times

He was just the best ever.

This channel absolutely rocks!!

Great great race, crazy to think this record has been standing for my entire life and then another decade on top of that

these speedrun videos are getting pretty good

Spotted my former training partner John mayock in the 2000m

The 90s was nuts in terms of records and some still STAND. There is only one man on this planet who has a chance that is of course Jakob from Norway.

He’s a phenomenal runner, absolutely the best of all the times…👍🙏

Not all, I saw it in live and as a Moroccan nobody forgot anything about El G

Incredible! Great video

Early for this great analysis.

ElG could've gotten the 3000m record but probably would've needed some specific training. That distance was Komen's sweet spot.

Jacob Ingebrigtsen just smashed it.

With or without doping the undisputed 🐐 of the mile. Silky smooth stride pattern and length.

this is so insane 4 laps at 56 seconds.

The great Hicham.. Amazing runner...

We didn't all forget about it.

love the videos

Happened again by sofiane al bakali a Moroccan athlete too 🇲🇦

Daniel komen, what a legend.

the goat🇲🇦

The greatest ever ❤💪💪💪💪

Hichem El Guerrouj is a legend

North African dominate this, Aouita, Morcely, Hicham. Ingebritsen can make it now!!

I personally Believe Noah Ngeny should get just as much Credit for the WR Mile considering he also went below the Former Mile WR

These north africans were ace I remember said aouita then came along el garouj , not many coming from that region at the mo though.

Still in awe over that 1k record

One of the smothist runners ever.

He is still legend

GOAT

All those races in 99 came with a big cost! He was very exhausted and lost the appetite for running at the Sydney Olympics and lost the gold ! Luckily he recovered in 2004 and realised the amazing feat of winning 1500 and 5000 meters. A legendary athlete from my beloved Morocco

the goat

All those historic videos that are about 10 pixels wide by 10 pixels tall.

For his mile record he was running at 16.13 MPH HOLY SHIT

wow what a jun to sept.the KING

Epic stuff, smashed the 2k record. Gonna be awhile for that to go down.

Definitely on the sauce

who’s here after the pre classic this weekend 👀 first time i’ve seen someone that close. his record might fall soon

I guess I'm weird because this goes along with Usaine Bolt as the most remembered record for me. ..

🔥🔥🔥

Think if Ingerbritz wants to dominate track distance, he should focus on the 1-3k distances (and those in between).

Need a vid on Jonathan jones the longhorn

The greatest bar none. No one is close. He set the WR in the mile in nearly perfect conditions; good pace setters and Ngeny pushed him and finished with the second fastest mile ever. Imagine, the two fastest times in the mile were in the same race. His WR in the mile and 2K will stand a very long time.

It will happen again, let me introduce you to an even better athlete Mr. Jakob Ingebrigtsen 😊. Only 22 and by the time he is 25 as Hicham is here, Jakob may have every record on the books from 1500m to 10,000m 😊

He ran that 3000m race in Belgium on my 2nd birthday haha

what the fuck that 2000m is actually absurd ABSURD

*G* *O* *A* *T*

Wow

Never say never!

That moment when you peanut butter the apple sauce in the morgue

You may have forgotten it, but don't insult true track fans.

It went unnoticed because 2000 meters isn’t a very common race

Jus broke today 😢

I like the storytelling, but you might have told us up front that this was about the 2000 meter record...I waited three minutes before I knew what the heck was going on

Can you do an overlay of Bannister's first sub 4 minute mile vs Guerrouj's World mile record race? I'm guessing the margin would be well over 100 meters but how much more?

I hate sports. All of them. But you, fine sir, is somehow lightning a small ember inside of me with your great narrative over these videos.

I feel like this video was made in anticipation of Johan breaking this record.

jakob will get that world champs record this year

Let me guess this is about the 2k lol

never say never😈

What's the name of that guy from Norway again?

Give him a pair of dragonfly's and he'd be sub 3:40 in the mile

imagine running a 1600 of 3:49... bro i wish

Coe still the only double Olympic champ ever - and the world records

It's sad that Hicham El Guerrouj never put more dedication into the 3k because he almost would have definitely beat Daniel Komen's WR.

Any volunteer to clone him?

Were there performances drug enhanced?

I still think the 3k is the toughest distance record

when his records are broken, i'm certain it will be by someone under 20 years old, to do this all at 25 is astonishing

What year again?