Kyle Merber sets all-time collegiate record for an American
This Monday night, while competing in the Swarthmore Last Chance Meet, senior Kyle Merber put the icing on his incredible Columbia track and field career. Merber set the all-time collegiate record for an American in the 1,500 meter run with 3:35.59. Read more about Merber’s amazing run, and watch a video after the jump.
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Running in the fastest heat, Merber overtook his Olympic-level competition as the race came to a close. It was only a little earlier, Merber told hepstrack.com, that he was able to get into the fastest heat. This certainly helped pace the graduating senior, whose career once seemed to have been finished after a ligament injury in his foot. It clearly didn’t slow down Merber, though, who put together a steller senior season after missing his entire junior season due to said injury.
Merber’s mark is also the second-fastest across all age-groups in America, and the 15th-fastest in the world.
Merber made news earlier in his career with a sub-four minute mile, but the mile equivalent for this time is 3:52.775. Wow!
Not a bad way to leave for the Columbia College graduate. Congrats!
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good luck with the endeavor. alayws good info. I’m not sure how long before we have some kind of internet lockdown. I don’t think the government can allow the alternative media to keep putting out the truth much longer. Way too many people are finding out just how bad they are being reamed.
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Fabulous time and congrats to Kyle Merber!! I do have a question – In 1967, Jim Ryun ran 3:33.1 the summer after his sophomore year. Does that not count because he was representing the US team at the and not Kansas?