Jake MF Wightman 2:13.88!!

American Rick Wohlhuter ran the same time (2:13.9) back in 1974. It's a tough distance.

Dude is flying. Best guy currently 1000-1500 meters

Flying so much he won't face Jacob at the europeans. It's typical of fluke winners to do that.

1000m yes, but how much are you willing to bet he beats Jakob in their next 1500m race? No betting company would give Jake the status as favorite atleast

Wanna have a rethink in the corner?

Wightman's flash interview: "I did not really know I was in shape to do this today. It was just very very hard. I have run on my own. I knew Arop is a little bit quicker on the home straight so I had to judge the right moment. I had to stay strong to be able to catch him. This is a really nice step towards Munich. The main difference between the 1500 and 1000m is just the speed of the first couple of laps. You go from running 55s to 52. That was a good progression towards the European championships. The plan was always to run 800m at Europeans. I was happy to made the team."

The Kenyan were not in form.
As for Arop, next time he will face him, it will be a defeat.

The young 23 Canadian is learning every day.

Arop style recall of the style of Athing Mu. Always going ahead but loosing speed at the end.

I don't think it matters if Kenyans are in form or not. Simply extremely hard to beat a 1:13. Arop wouldn't stand a chance any time. Wightman is a little gassed now and he's a novice at this distance. I can see Wightman dipping below 1:13 in the future

*2:13

The one that showed more potential is Arop. Wigtman got him by experience and mile endurance.

Why do we never see any black Moroccan runners?

Then we should call "Hamid El Kasri" to bring us some Gnawa to do the 800m.

And will continue to beat him with talent and mile endurance

The 1000 favors 800/1500 guys. So that means 400/800 types Kinyamal and Kiprop were unlikely to have much of a shot. Just not what they train for. Arop has worked hard on his strength (3:57 mile indoors), and it paid clear dividends today.
Jake had little drafting help not going with Arop and he ran it with more of a kicking style than is ideal to hit it exactly perfect. Splits: 25.9/26.6/27.1/27.6/26.6. If he gets more drafting help and can tighten it up from 400-800 to a 54 flat, I’d say 2:13 low-mid was possible.
Arops splits: 25.5/25.9/26.4/27.6/28.9. Yes obviously overcooked but Wightman wasn’t up to run 52-flat. Could improve a little with less of a rig but he should go through in 1:46, he is not going to lift the pace the last 200 like Jake.

Shame Tim wasn’t in this one as I think he could’ve run 2:13 flat tailing Arop if he went after it. Distance is ideal for him.

1.13?????

It was 2.13 high.

He corrected himself in the very next post dude.

A couple weeks ago now I made up World Championships results from a hypothetical world in which 500-1000-4000-10,000 are the popular/championship events instead of 400-800-1500-5k-10k, and this is what I had for the men’s 1,000:

1. Jake Wightman 🇬🇧 2:13.68
2. Josh Kerr 🇬🇧 2:13.91
3. Abel Kipsang 🇰🇪 2:14.11
4. Djamel Sedjati 🇩🇿 2:14.32
5. Emmanuel Wanyonyi 🇰🇪 2:14.40
6. Marco Arop 🇨🇦 2:14.69
7. Timothy Cheruiyot 🇰🇪 2:14.89
8. Teddese Lemi 🇪🇹 2:15.04
9. Mario Garcia Romo 🇪🇸 2:15.21
10. Peter Bol 🇦🇺 2:15.70
11. Gabriel Tual 🇫🇷 2:15.98
12. Michal Rozmys 🇵🇱 2:16.27
400 - Kipsang 53.15
800 - Arop 1:47.25 (54.10)
1000 - Wightman 2:13.68 (26.43)

I’m not too convinced it would be much different after seeing Monaco, though times might be slightly faster across the board and Arop in particular might fare better if 100% targeting that distance. Obviously, they wouldn’t have Sowinski leading out in 51.0 though.

Timothy Cheruiyot has run 1:43 low and 3:28. Wightman has run 3:29 and 1:44 low - it would be between those two. Slight edge to Wightman based on this season but any other year Tim would definitely win a worlds 1k.

Yeah Cheruiyot is way too low. He's definitely not at his best this year, but he should be closer to the medals. Agree he'd win any other year. In 2019 he could've scared the world record.