Ivan Siuris, former Moldavian 400 m runner (50.62) wins Bucharest marathon in 2:16:35.

What's your point? Plenty of 50. 400 pr guys have run faster marathons. AWebb is a 47. guy and ran a low 27 10000.

Mo Ran wrote:

What's your point? Plenty of 50. 400 pr guys have run faster marathons. AWebb is a 47. guy and ran a low 27 10000.

it's hardly a guarantee Webb would have ran a 2:16 if he had transitioned to the marathon late in his career. Just an interesting stat to accompany the results.

Rupp has done this and probably Ryan Hall as well but you're in good company if you're in a club with them.

My 400 pr is faster. I hardly consider myself a "former 400m American sprinter".

Dude is a distance runner. A MARATHON runner who has track times.

Mo Ran wrote:

What's your point? Plenty of 50. 400 pr guys have run faster marathons. AWebb is a 47. guy and ran a low 27 10000.

My point, among others, is that there are not many 2:16:00 minute marathon runners with 50.400 m speed. That is an honorable combination of times. The Moldavian also has an honorable 152 for 800 m.

There are thousands of runners who are sub-2:16 and sub-51.

51 is more or less the required speed to go sub-4:00 in the mile. Most guys who are sub-2:12 were like 4:03 milers or better at some point.

You’re being called out for referring to this guy as a “former sprinter” and then listing a time that would not win most HS invitationals.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

There are thousands of runners who are sub-2:16 and sub-51.

51 is more or less the required speed to go sub-4:00 in the mile. Most guys who are sub-2:12 were like 4:03 milers or better at some point.

You’re being called out for referring to this guy as a “former sprinter” and then listing a time that would not win most HS invitationals.

Fair enough, and if I’m wrong in my assessment then I stand corrected. I was guessing, perhaps erroneously, that very few 2:16:00 marathon type runners would be able to run 400 m in 50 seconds.

No biggie. You live and you (hopefully) learn.

Thank you Ghost1. I actually appreciate your observations of results around the world. There are many unique stories in this sport and people with different journeys to arrive at a performance of note.

I would estimate that 1/3 of 2:16 marathoners can run equivalent 400. To the guy who said that a 27 minute gut wouldn't necessarily run 2:16, you are crazy.

hire the guy wrote:

I would estimate that 1/3 of 2:16 marathoners can run equivalent 400. To the guy who said that a 27 minute gut wouldn't necessarily run 2:16, you are crazy.

No it is obvious that very few 2:16 marathoners can run 50.6 for 400m, especially in the same year. I would guess it might be about 1/20 or something like that. If we are discussing 50.6 speed and 2:16 at different times in their careers, then certainly it would be higher than 1/20 but still not likely as high as 1/3.

This PR's are not real one

He had run many times 49 and maybe has and 48 at 400( usually on podium on Moldavian Championship)

He has 1:49 PB at 800(he is indoor moldavian record holder)

But this marathon time is very good because he was never training for distance longer than 3k. And in middle on July of this year he decided to try to run marathon.

First marathon he had run in Moldova 2:22 on 17 October and in 2 weeks he had run again in Romania 2:16 with negative split(1:08:45+ 1:07:50). So for next year with longer training period he will have a lot better results

habs wrote:

Mo Ran wrote:

What's your point? Plenty of 50. 400 pr guys have run faster marathons. AWebb is a 47. guy and ran a low 27 10000.

it's hardly a guarantee Webb would have ran a 2:16 if he had transitioned to the marathon late in his career. Just an interesting stat to accompany the results.

Rupp has done this and probably Ryan Hall as well but you're in good company if you're in a club with them.

If only a track robot could be sent off to gather all this data, and make predictions even!

Rupp would need a 49 flat race lap to match an open 400 50. I don't take for granted he ever has.

This guy's clearly not a 400m sprinter though? He's an 800/1500 runner who has the baseline speed required of a solid mid-d runner.

Could he have beat Rod Dixon with either of those marks? Maybe it would have been "impressive" in 1978.

His strava:

https://www.strava.com/athletes/89025421

His instagram:

https://instagram.com/vanya_syuris?utm_medium=copy_link

Hawell5 wrote:

His strava:

https://www.strava.com/athletes/89025421

His instagram:

https://instagram.com/vanya_syuris?utm_medium=copy_link

Thank you for the update on this guy. Do you think he has the capacity to one day run in the 210 to 212 range for the marathon? Does the governing body in Moldavia support good level athletes like him? I remember a few years ago there was a very good steeplechase runner from Moldova who was one of the best in Europe I think but whose name slips my mind at the moment.

On another subject, I noticed the Cyrillic script linked to his Strava and was wondering whether they use a Cyrillic or Latin script in Moldovia or both? Are Moldovians fluent in Romanian and Russian?

I think he will be capable in some years for 2:10-2:12. For next year i think his main goal will be 2:14:30 to qualify for European Championship in Munich. We already have one qualified, Maxim Raileanu with 2:13:40 PB this year.

They have some support from federation, and they work for police. But support it's not very big, Ivan hopes to have next year one training camp at altitude, but it's not sure if federation will have money.

steeplechase runner is Ivan LUKYANOV, bronze medalist of European Championships in 2010. Later he started to run for Russia(He has wife from there). But now he is running for a Romanian Club. He is still running under 9 minutes at steeplechase( probably somewhere 8:40-8:50) at age of 40.

We had another good marathon runner Iaroslav MUȘINSCHI with pb 2:08:32 in 2010, in that year he was European Leader, but he is not running anymore.

In Moldova almost all of us are speaking 2 languages, Romanian official one, and Russian because we was part of Soviet Union. Ivan was born in part of Moldova called Transnistria, that part wants to be an Independent state or to be part of Russia, and there Russian is official language

Ghost1 wrote:

In the same race 61-year-old Nicolae Balan ran an incredible 2:29:57, which has to be one of the fastest times ever by a man in this age group, 60 to 64.

8. Nicolae BALAN 1960

ROU

2:29:57

It's a mistake here, he is from 1985.

Here are results form Romanian Athletics Federation(It was also Romanian National Championships)