Total Running Productions put this out on Youtube this morning.
World Champs Men's 1500m 2022 LINK (wanna see it? clik here)
photo from The Daily Telegraph
It was everything you could expect for the price of admission. A surprise winner, a ball breaking pace 55.1, 1:52.04, 2:48.29, 3:29.23 with a 50.9 last 400. Jacob Wightman made the move on the backstretch and proved that he meant it down the last 100 meters. He opened a slight gap in the last turn and Ingebritson had time and room to close it up, but he could not as Wightman did not falter on that final straightaway. Surprisingly too the Kenyans went out the back door on this one. The drama in the stands was that Wightman's father was the stadium announcer for the race. What a family event!
Math error corrected by Bruce Kritzler who was there.
| "Wightman ran 54.5. Nobody running 50.9 off that pace." |
Through another set of eyes. Richard Mach's
They were about 2:33.5 with 400 m to go. Wightman needed to be leading off the last curve and avoid the mano-a-mano down the final stretch with the man of steel (y will). Just before the race on the basis of the semis, I‘d picked Jakob for second, Kipsang to win and Cheruiyot for the bronze. No
Prognosticator am I. The Kenyans really faded a bunch. And out of the $ for the first time in now 6 WCs. Kerr figured with 200 from home that ‘Oh, I am in the final. Now what?’ That smiley stuff was imitating Lyles. For more TV exposure. Had my eye on Katir, the Spaniard, in 20-21, but he had been nowhere much at all earlier in this season running 3 and 5. He elbowed Cheruiyot coming off the last turn, but Tim was on his way to coming inside where Katir was always occupying space: and lighting it up, surging. PB for Wightman 3:29.33. Jakob 3:29.85 and Katir under 3:30. That bumping by Mohamed didn’t help Cheruiyot’s flow — that is certain. The move in the race was Wightman’s asserting himself with 250 to go and going by 1500 m royalty — but then those Brits have always been a cheeky lot — and slipping into lane 1 early on in the back turn without impeding. Ingebrigtsen who leaned ever so slightly forward in slightly shortening his stride so there was .. thankfully … no contact. Jakob is fierce snd that loss was hard for him. But it means better times in the DL perhaps. We shall see.
Looking at the 200 semis, we could be watching the most outstanding flat race of the Championships when the 2 Americans get in their blocks for that final.
1 comment:
Great write up, George. The crowd got their money's worth on that race. How about Laura Muir also breaking up the East African consortium in the women's 1500-meters! Amazing determination and effort,especially after losing two months training to an injury at the beginning of the year.
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