Fifteen year old Max Burgin runs 1:47.50 at British Milers Club Manchester Meeting!

Fifteen year old Max Burgin ran 1:47:50 at the British Milers Club Sport City in Manchester, England on May 12, just eight days before his sixteenth birthday! Max’s 1:47.50 is a 15 year old world record. Here’s the following update from Peter J. Thompson.

Here’s a quick final stretch of the race, courtesy of our friends at Vinco:

15 year old Max Burgin dropped an age group world best 1:47.50 800 at the @britishmilersclub Manchester meeting yesterday ðŸ‘€ðŸ‘€ – ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸ðŸ‡¨ðŸ‡¦ friends can watch the meet replays on RunnerSpace.com – ðŸ“¹ @vincosport – #britishmilersclub #vincosport #runnerspace #tracknation
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Peter John Thompson reported to @runblogrun that Max Burgin ran 1:49.42 just one month after his fifteenth birthday in 2017!

Thanks to Peter Thompson here’s the yearly progression for Max Burgin over 800 meters and cross country.

Max Burgin – Progression at 800m

2018	1:47.50	at age 15, 8 days before 16th birthday
2017	1:49.42	at age 15, one month after 15th birthday
2016	1:53.1	at age 14
2015	2:02.44	at age 13, 3 days after his 13th birthday
2014	2:14.42	at age 12

Good to see that Max Burgin runs cross country and the England Athletics Park Runs – http://vinco.elasticbeanstalk.com/news/2157-world-record-breaker-max-burgin-making-strides-the-old-school-way

Max Burgin’s Progression at 5Km Park Runs and Cross Country Championships

	5Km Park Run	Northern X-C	English Schools X-C	English National X-C (Club)
2018	16:58	39	–	70*
2017	17:36	26	189*	65*
2016	17:20	33	35*	68*
2015	19:11	7	157*	27*

* The English Schools and English National Championships are offset by one year – so for the two-year age bands for each organization, one year an athlete is at the top of their age group for the Schools and the bottom for the National and the next year vice versa. This strategy means that the athlete is encouraged in their development not trying every two years to physically and psychologically deal with being at the bottom of their age group.

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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