This WORLD RECORD May NEVER BE BROKEN, Here's Why || The Greatest 1500 Meter Run Ever 

You're right Ray, there's better footage from WW1 than this. It is a shame

@@neilshannon9930 Exactly, Neil.

@@ExecutionerHopkins No ,it's not like that

Totaly agree .. it's a shame not having an good quality version of this great race and historic moment

Great comment with real integrity. I regard track as almost sacred so you are preaching to the choir. I would love to see these astounding historical races in good quality.

Athens 2004 - Men's 5000m

And now Kipchoge and Bekele are the marathon goats 🐐

He ran the 3:26.00 before the 3:26.12 so it was the first but not the only.

Bernard Lagst averaged 55.024 secs per lap. Close but no cigar. Admittedly Lagat was paced the whole way around by Guerrouj. Shout out to the people who maintain the track and field all time best performances website. It is a great site that is fun to browse

55.0

Yep. 55s/lap exactly would be 3:26.25. El G is still the only man to go under that

Seb Coe and Steve Ovett could have beaten him with moderrn training. Steve Cram could have challenged him

Timothy could get really close to this and might even break it

@@mathematics5573 lol could would should

@@mathematics5573 Well maybe that is true, but the competition between the three of them wouldn't only be an advantage for Ovett and Coe but also Guerrouj. It would have been one awesome race

F I think this is hard to argue given that El Garrouj set his records only 15 years after Coe an Ovett and 10 years after Cram.

It Would be impossible to break the mile out door world record

wrong. Humans improve. @@nourdaniel2437

Good 🧬 genetics, good training 🏃 and hormones like HGH equals 3:26 for 1500m. I DO NOT BELIVE HE WAS A CLEAN ATHLETE - MOSTLY HID AWAY IN MOROCCO training in the mountains with HGH human growth hormone - that is out of the system in 24 hrs of you stop injecting it 🛑

His stats/credentials are insane. He ran 29 sub-3:30 races, 15 sub-3:29 races, 9 sub-3:28 races, and 5 sub-3:27 races. In his senior career, he won 63 out of 77 1500m finals, 17 out of 20 mile finals, 3 out of 3 2000m finals, 2 out of 2 3000m finals, and 1 out of 3 5000m finals. From 1996 to 2004 he won 60 out of 64 1500m finals, and 17 out of 18 mile finals. Had the world best time 8 different seasons. (1996-2003) (And this is just outdoor. He had some insane indoor stats as well)

At his peak when epo was rife and couldn't be tested for so it's all insane alright

@@huzcer agree100%..

@@huzcer well others could take it too .. so it was an even playing field

@@charlesthorndike2702 and some people still don't consider him as the middle distance legend

Who was in pain hichem or his brother

@@toxicblood5548 Hicham

Karl kox What is the relevance of the pain? Seb Coe's dad trained him and they reported that after many training sessions, .Seb was left on the ground being sick. This is normal for athletes to aim for world recirds and olympic medals.

agreed! This is why the "lucky" wins aren't exactly just luck. These people have put themselves through years of training and torture to get to the top. Look up Steven Bradbury and his win in the winter Olympics as an example.

umm, yes there is, I guess you ain't never seen a ball bounce off the post in soccer or a half court buzzer beater in basketball

No I don't think he had the raw speed necessary for the 800m. I'm talking about the 400m. Wilson Kipketer was running 1:41 around the same time. He was dominant and held the record.

@@mwasie I got to disagree. Kipketer & that Russian dude I forgot his name were the dominant ones in the field of 800m. El Guerrouj back in '99(not even counting the WR time of 3'26 that he set in '98) ran the last 800m in 1:45.8 to finish in 3'27 which at the very least would've gotten him to the podium in 2000. That's absolutely crazy to think he was capable of that considering he had already ran a hard 700m prior to that. His finishing speed was crazy as there were times he would run 12-13 seconds in the homestretch of the final 100m.

@@anthonyg.4785 Um how are you disagreeing with me when you just wrote "Kipketer % that Russian dude" were the dominant once. Exactly. El guerrouj was dominant at 1500m but had no chance to dominate the top best 800m runners in the world let alone Kipketer who would have destroyed him. He just never had the raw speed.

Hicham El G. is rare talent combined with the right body-build, mindset (mentality), Skill-set for the 1500/mile. In Moroccan interview he said something, which I found very weird that time. He printed the fall on a painting of the fall in Atlanta 1996. He was crying on that picture. Why would somebody hang-up his loss/pain on the wall?? He said, I hung it up in front of his bed on the wall and took that everywhere when he went to. Even to hotels/training camps. He said that when he wake-up, he wanted to confront myself each day with this and not forget that you not only training with body, but also with your spirit/mind/soul. You can't grow, if you run away from the pain/suffering. You must be bigger that. Only legends think like that..

possible, but he would have to sacrifice practicing time for the other events so we never know.

A monster a legend

That is frikkin absurd.

Wow

Bruh

Yaaaaaaaaaaas! The non-wavelight era 😏🌌

Jakob is getting closer. 3:27 at 22 is insane. Middle distance runners peak at 25-29.

@@epilog80 El G set his WRs between ages 23-25, so Jakob is right in the sweet spot

@@ccx806 First off, El Guerrouj set his WR's pretty early in his career, typically they do peak 25-29, so El Guerrouj was quite early, though he won the olympics when he was 30, which shows he had the right peak and training at 30, pretty late for a first olympic victory. This shows that he was personally best at 23-25; however, he was best tactically/ got the right opportunity at 30.

I’d like to see your source for this claim. The IAAF keeps samples dating back to 2005, but not earlier. El Gerrouj’s carreer was mostly over after his double gold at the Athen’s 2004 Olympics.

For sure not. By now it is not one of the toughest world records to reach. More in the middle pack. Still unbelievable impressive for 22 years old record. And back than was for sure one of the top records. The chance that the last record will be an improvement by more than 1 second is also amost zero. Most likely this was last time with such improvement.

he said he could be 2 seconds faster, he knew that wasn't his limit but sadly getting older doesn't help that, someonw will get those 2 seconds less someday

Good 🧬 genetics, good training 🏃 and hormones like HGH equals 3:26 for 1500m. I DO NOT BELIVE HE WAS A CLEAN ATHLETE - MOSTLY HID AWAY IN MOROCCO training in the mountains with HGH human growth hormone - that is out of the system in 24 hrs of you stop injecting it 🛑

I don't think anyone can for another 20 years

Yea Cheruiyot might get close but break it I don’t see anyone doing not even Jakob

@@rashid3371 ppl are getting close , tefera , Timothy , Jakob all young and have alot of time to improve and tebu crazy fast already

None of them are as close and as dominant as was Asbel Kiprop. Is the 1500m really going to be Jakob's main/best event? Anyway I dont see him medalling at worlds/olympics. Not hating tho, hes still great.

Even with ped they can’t beat it 😂 ppl think it’s intake ped and I’m superman 😂😂🤣🤦‍♂️ all of them takes some form of ped that can be detected or not. Don’t fool yourself to much money and glory. You can’t be competitive in Olympic wtv sport if you don’t take ped it’s has simple has that. Some country got better pass at taking ped then others it’s simple has that. Even with ped that record will stay a longgggg time like the 100m the 200m the 400m those are insanely fast time with or without ped. It takes genetic, the will , the discipline, and luck to beat those insane times. All the stars got to be align and if you see a record stands for years even with better drug and tech that means the star did not align meaning something was always missing to break it. So it’s not has simple as ppl say or think just because you take ped. I was an athlete and I’m a coach now. Lots got to be in play for an athlete to break that. It’s like a woman running sub 10sec in 100m or sub 20sec in 200m or sub 50sec or even sub 47sec in 400m ( like that East German woman ) these thing are godly hard

Real fact

Wtf 💀🤣 alright man I’ll look out for u

Good luck 🤣👍

Jesus

😂 aight make the news

hi

except this one was done most likely cleanly

Good 🧬 genetics, good training 🏃 and hormones like HGH equals 3:26 for 1500m. I DO NOT BELIVE HE WAS A CLEAN ATHLETE - MOSTLY HID AWAY IN MOROCCO training in the mountains with HGH human growth hormone - that is out of the system in 24 hrs of you stop injecting it 🛑

Who knows if he wouldn't be faster in today's times

no, the mile isn’t ‘the most coveted and sought after record of all’ people from outside of the imperial measurement standards don’t really care too much about racing an abstract distance

@@FenceThis you’re wrong,

@@jamesharrigan7063 I’m absolutely correct

It’s all about the 1500 meter

@@FenceThis no , no one thinks in terms of 1500 meters, it’s always converted to miles, Pace per mile is what people think about in terms of marathon running too. Why the fools established a 3 and 3/4 lap race, 1500 meters, is beyond me.

3:26.0 for sure. last 800m in 1500 will be faster after ones first 700m will be extremely slow. but for 1500m you have to run all the way fastest time. ones you lost half a second record gone.

It’s amazing to think that Mike Powell’s record has now stood considerably longer than Beamon’s record that he broke. The long jump WR has been broken once in 55 years since Beamon’s jump.

But Juiced up with HGH in Africa behind closed doors which is out of the system in 24 hrs - but effects remain. Said Aouita took HGH as well. I feel the last clean WR in 1500m was Cram after too much money and drugs involved

@@APBCTechnique you seem so well informed call the cops already. talking shit out of your ass.

@@HopeMutd oh I'm not sure he is .. it was rife..

@@APBCTechnique Could you please explain why the Cram's WR was the " last clean" 1500 WR? Give me facts hater..