Hinton hovers closer to his M45 world record at 1500
John Hinton’s hunt for a PR in the M45 1500 continued apace over the weekend, reports Alan Sigmon, a track statistician of note. And with an age-group PR comes a nice bonus: a world record. Alan writes: “At the Nike UNC Elite Meet (Chapel Hill, N.C., May 17), John Hinton, 46, ran 3:57.77, his fourth sub-4:00 1500 of the year. (See results here.) This is the 2nd-fastest M45 1500m ever, behind Hinton’s own 3:56.39 WR of last year.” Alan also compiled an all-time list for the M45 metric mile.
Alan reports:
My compilation of the all of the world’s sub-4:00 performances in the M45 1500m:
3:56.39 John Hinton (USA) 01.05.62 45 7 Durham 6 May 07
3:57.77 Hinton 46 8 Chapel Hill 17 May 08
3:57.98 Hinton 45 8r2 Durham 4 Apr 08
3:58.13 Hinton 46 11 Durham 4 May 08
3:58.3 Peter Molloy (GBR) 08.01.49 46 Watford 9 Aug 95
3:59.22 Wilfried Dubois (Bel) 01.09.59 45 Oordegem 2 Jul 05
3:59.22 Hinton 46 16 Chapel Hill 9 May 08
3:59.24 + Ken Sparks (USA) 25.01.45 45 New York 29 Jul 90
3:59.90 Jim McNamara (Ire) 17.04.39 45 Dublin 27 May 84
3:59.95 Tony McManus 95
For giggles, I plugged 3:57.77 and age 46 into Jess Brewer’s Age-Graded Tables lookup form. The results? “A performance of 3:57.77 corresponds to an Open (ages 20-30) equivalent of 3:30.83.”
Also, according to the “Big Green Book” from Track & Field News, a 3:57.5 1500 is equivalent to a 4:16.5 mile.
The listed M45 world record for the mile is 4:16.75 by David Sirl of New Zealand in 1987.
It’s only a matter of time.
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While doing some research after I sent Ken the M45 1500m list, I made an interesting discovery: Hinton’s M45 World Record was almost broken last Nov. 3, when Spain’s Jes?ɬ?s Borrego ran 3:56.58 at Herrerea, Spain, missing Hinton’s WR by just 0.19 second.
Borrego, already holder of the M45 World Record for 1500m (8:34.58), went on to break the M45 indoor WR for 1500m with 4:02.24 two months ago.
Borrego, born July 16, 1961, is 2?Ǭ? months younger than Hinton.
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