Early reports out of Brasschaat, Belgium have 24-year-old Alan Webb as having broken Steve Scott's fifteen twenty-five-year-old
Webb has dealt with enormous amounts of pressure since becoming the first high-school runner in the U.S. to dip under the 4:00 barrrier in 2001, when Webb's 3:53.43 at the Prefontaine Classic launched him past Jim Ryun's 1965 prep mark of 3:55.3 and onto the world-class stage at the age of 18.
Webb has failed to medal in either the Olympics or the World Track and Field Championships, but appears poised to change that next month in Osaka, Japan, the site of the 11th Worlds. His run this evening in Braaschat was a concerted attempt at the American standard in perhaps track's most revered event.
Meet Web site; Flocast video (check back for updates to both; I'll post the video here when I can).
UPDATE: IAAF story.
Comments
25 year old record not fifteen. Most notable as one of the rare occasions where someone specifically set up a race to set a record and actually did it. How many races actually match the pre-race hype?
Posted by: laika | July 22, 2007 11:15 AM
WOW! What a flagrant screw-up that was. Wanna know what my thought process was?
"2007 - 1982 = 15."
Good thing I didn't claim instead that Webb had run under 3:00 or something.
Posted by: Kevin Beck | July 22, 2007 4:35 PM
Use this for the video from flocast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo94KFvDcPo
Posted by: JimFiore | July 23, 2007 6:04 PM