37 Break 9:00!! Boys 3200m Invitational - Arcadia Invitational 2024 [Full Race]

In the late 80's breaking 10 was "good," but we heard about these legends running low 9's from the big cities. Then, one day, in the newspaper, someone broke 9 out West. Epic.

I don't know what's crazier; having 7 runners break 8:40, almost everyone breaking 9 in one heat or Nathan Neil closing the last 1600m in 4:10

Congratulations to Ibzan Felix! From 9:17 to 8:47 in one year!

fastest high school race ever

Daniel Simmons is not only one of the most talented runners I’ve ever seen, he is classy, kind and an all around great human being.

Back in '06 only 8 of us broke 9 at Arcadia and people were in shock. AJ Acosta, who won the race in 8:51.30, would have been 30th here today and I would have been 2nd to last lol. It's unreal (but awesome) to see how deep the US has become in the 3200m!

This announcer is goated

Thank you for the full upload. Arcadia always hosting the most deep and exciting high school races in the nation.

They all paced this incredibly. 4:22 first mile and 17 boys went under 8:44 for a negative split. That is mind blowing!

Absolutely insane race. Amazing job to everyone in this race.

Every person in this race can win state in any state haha

Actually insane the level of talent here, can’t even imagine 30+ boys going sub 9 in one race

California’s best…running with the big boys now. I mean running 8:47 gets you 23rd place? Geez.

Imagine running 9:09 and getting last insane

crazy how almost a s whole school, being american fork, can have almost a whole team go under 9

Another thing to consider is that Arcadia has so many runners in each event that they run multiple races. The 3200m is a big draw so this was only 1 of 6 total races, albeit this was the fastest. Another race had 20 more runners under 9:00, a third had 11, and a 4th had 1, for a staggering total of 69 runners under 9:00 in the same meet. Insane! And the winner Daniel Simmons and Ben Jaster (5th) helped American Fork dominate in the 4 X 1600m relay.

Did not know Neil was on that level with Griffith and Simmons. And he’s going to Washington, he’s on a good trajectory.

If anyone is from Georgia and remembers this really great runner named Kevin Graham, well he looks like Daniel Simmons. Kevin ran in the early 1990s. I forget which high school he went to but he went to Georgia Tech after high school.

How is this possible. This is absolutely sick, unbelievable , incredible that high school kids can run this fast. I remember when I was in high school in Pennsylvania, this kid from Illinois named Craig Virgin ran an 8:40 2 mile and it made so much press, was written about in magazine, I believe in Sports Illustrated or Runners World I forget which, the author compared him to Secretariat in that incredible article. In my state of Pennsylvania the top 2-miler runners were running in the low 9 mins. But to see this where a great time of 9:07 almost gets you last place. Unbelievable. What am I looking at. The evolution of kids. I still run a lot 60 - 70 miles a week and even at my age I can run a 21 min 5k. I was in a 5 k road race last year and I got totally destroyed by a 9 year old, LMAO by like 3 minutes. 🤣😂. These kids nowadays are like bionic! I sure hope their talents transfer well someday to the international and world championship level. I'd love to see in my life time it said that the greatest distance runners in the world come from America not Kenya or Ethiopia . It could happen, even today the greatest middle distance runner in the world is from Norway not Kenya, Ethiopia of North Africa

The race starts at just after 6:00 if you want to skip the introductory mischief.