Juantorena striding out is one of the great sights of athletics history.

I don't think I have ever seen a more beautiful stride than that!

Alberto Juantorena's running style was mesmerizing!

Majestic. Incomparable. Legend.

Juantoreno is poetry in motion 👌

His hair made him stand out in a crowd... This guy was one of my childhood heroes... Cuba always representing back in those days.

Juantorena! Grande campeón, el caballo cubano.

I ran track back in the late 70's. Juantorena was one of my heroes. Back then, they would call him "The Horse".

Goodness. Poetry in motion 0:32 to 0:35. Wow!

@depaola63

8 жыл бұрын

+Aggressive Pipe & Earth ...9 ft. each stride!

@daviddubuisson1060

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect technic and relax sprinter.beautiful!!

the best style of the world, nobody run like him

Juantorena's nickname el caballo "the horse" suits him well. He has a horse's stride

@starmersbarber

2 жыл бұрын

"He opens his legs and shows us his class"

@johnnysmith7109

2 жыл бұрын

@@starmersbarber You must be gay.

El Caballo. You wonder what would have been had he been healthy in 1980. I would have loved to have seen him in the final against Coe and Ovett.

@joemcm1

3 жыл бұрын

would have been a totally different final thats for sure.can u imagine ovett trying to get to the line with that beast closing on him....ovett just wins.cruz was a similar sort of runner but not quite

Daaaayyyuuuummm!!! look at that stride!!

[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: 400 metres in 1976 - was blessed with considerably more pure speed/sprinting ability than Sebastian Coe. But, on the other hand, Coe's exceptionally high level of endurance put the big Cuban athlete to shame. Sebastian Coe and Alberto Juantorena were both brilliant 800 metres runners when they were in their prime. But they were two VERY different athletes - and not just in terms of height and build.

@SirPeter6464

3 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest actions I have seen is Coe. He could sprint longer and harder than any man I ever saw. Alberto was - as you say - had a differing style but it wasn't that good for 800m. Peter Elliot has a better PB at the distance. If he could have kept the early form we saw here doing for 600m (and Coe could keep his) then he would have been the greatest ever.

@juliomiguel6597

6 ай бұрын

no shame to Juantorena. In this year 1977 he got surgically operated again ( he had been twice before the Montreal Games ) and never fully recovered. After this, he never was able to properly train again. At the time he has been less than 2 years in the event ( he was a 400 m runner and began late in the 800 ). He never reach to delivered all his potential. Coe best performances were in 1981 and at the time he had been running the distance for at least 7 years.

Великий хуанторена , кумир моего детства , как же красиво он бежал !

1976 Double Gold Medalist Alberto "El Caballo" Juantorena the Athlete of all time. I was very lucky to see him perform at the 1979 Pepsi Invitational Challenge at UCLA Los Angeles, California. His method of running is for your own eyes to see. 9' foot strides at least. He would look back and monitor the race and turn on the power as needed. In 1976 Montreal Olympics running all those heats before the finals is grueling he took gold in the 400 meters in 44.26 with ease. Juantorena lead the 800 meters till he was cut off pace at the 500 meter mark temporary for 3 seconds then passed the guy leading like he was standing still to get gold again. Juantorena set the 800 meter new world record at 1:43.40. So you can subtract that by 3.00 seconds you would get 1:40.40. How would he have done against Coe and Ovett or even Rudisha. Well think about it! I think he would have held the record till today.

@freedomprivilege6344

Жыл бұрын

I was at that Pepsi Invitational as well and Juantorena's stride on the backstretch was beautiful to watch. I recall he lost that race to Willie Smith who got out fast with Juantorena closing in on the final stretch and just falling short.

@ZZLZ-cj8tl

Жыл бұрын

@@freedomprivilege6344 Yes. The security left him setting in the sun for hours after a long trip from his country. He came as a guest to the event. Then they called him to run the 400 meters. He just jogged it at 46.2 Willie Smith from Auburn ran 45.05 and was so happy. Rolando Nehemiah set world record in High Hurdles and beat Greg Foster. Jeff Nelson Burbank high school 8:36.3 National Record. Paul Medvin 4:06 High School Mile. A great day in 1979.

@user-yf3ti8ry2v

5 ай бұрын

Beat Coe 800m no way Coe would of loved him leading at the Bell in 49 secs no one ever the 2nd Lap faster than Coe would of sat on him like Straub Moscow last 800 was less than 1:50 last 100 was like 11:3 secs if u think Alberto had that kind of finish at the end of a 1:42 -1:43 800 u r kidding he never broke 1:43 Coe ran 1:43 -1:44 anytime he felt like & u say Alberto could run 1:40 in his dreams how many 1:43 races did he run in his whole career 2-3 not many Coe 30-40

Robert Taylor is my track coach...

Simply Juantorena the best

@TheEctomorph A very thorough and accurate analysis of Coe & Juantorena. Thanks! And yes, it was the same Robert Taylor who won silver over 100m in Munich and won bronze here in the 400m.

@jannetguarte3656

3 жыл бұрын

no. R.Taylor *1948: 100m / R.E.Taylor *1953: 400m

tio Alberto te adoro !!!

Alberto Juantorena (who held the world 800 metres record for three years, from 1976 until '79) was a very different athlete from Britain's Sebastian Coe, the man who succeeded him as world record holder. Juantorena was a much bigger, heavier and more powerfully built runner than Coe; he also had a much higher degree of pure speed - hardly surprising really, given that he was the Olympic champion at 400 metres in 1976; as well as at 800m. Sebastian Coe, on the other hand, had superb

I 3 secondi perfetti dell’atletica

My uncle Zygmunt Zabierzowski was Juantorena's coach

@scouter-xn6zi

Жыл бұрын

May we have more details about your uncle ? Where he lived etc. ? I would appreciate it (in case you might be reading this message after so long, of course)

@woffer3881

Жыл бұрын

@@scouter-xn6zi Before World War II, he was the Polish Champion in the 400 m and the academic vice-champion of the world, also in the 400 m He lived in Poland in Warsaw before the second war He was solider of undergrounds army called Home Army and then He fought in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 in Żoliborz, a district of Warsaw. He swam across the Vistula to the other side where the Russians were, he had a report for them about the situation in Warsaw, in which the main command of the Uprising asks for help but gets captured by the Russians and forcibly incorporated into the Polish People's Army.

Juantarena and El Guerrouj were the most majestic runners

Juantarena might be The Wolverine who went back in time in Days of Future's Past. lol

holy mother what a sick stride!

Only just got there ? Lol!!! The man is a champion !

Juantorena fue el mejor y sigue siendolo

@aprendiendoavivir1000

3 жыл бұрын

Nadie ha superado su doble título en unos mismo juegos olímpicos

Just seen the comments, this is NOT the Robert Taylor of 1972, Robert Taylor was born 1948 this Robert Taylor was born 1953.Taylor came third in the 400 meters at the 1977 IAAF Athletics World Cup in Düsseldorf whilst representing the USA.[3] By virtue of this, he was part of a controversy as the race was re-run the day after the first run because Alberto Juantorena (of Cuba representing the Americas) lodged a successful protest that he had not been able to hear the starter's gun in the first race.[4] Taylor was ranked as one of the best 400 m runners in 1976 and 1977.[5][6]

A mans a man for all that 🤗

A real through breed!!

@puljacina Him running was a thing of beauty. And he was using his own legs! I'm sure that will be history in a few years. Track and field as I knew it is over. Rise of the machines. Thanks South Africa.

[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: 800 metres record (for the second time) on 10th June 1981, he covered each 400 metres of the race in a time of 50.865 seconds. That is truly remarkable, when one considers that his personal best time for 400 metres was a (relatively) lack-lustre 46.87. Clearly, Coe's level of endurance must have been phenomenal, back in the summer of 1981. When one analyses Juantorena's personal Let us know take a look

@zednik771 Ya I loved when he ran back in those days...

0:32: I get goose bumps!

@valjean1ful Yes, that's right ... the guy from Texas who won a silver medal (behind the great Valeriy Borzov) in the 100 metres sprint at the Munich Olympic Games, 5 years earlier in September 1972,

[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: when Sebastian Coe set his personal best time for 800 metres (in 1981) he covered each 400 metres of the race in a time of 50.865 - despite the fact that his personal best for the 400m was a relatively modest 46.87. The differential between 50.865 and 46.87 is only 3.995 seconds. As I said at the beginning of these comments, Alberto Juantorena - a heavily muscled, 6 foot 3" Olympic champion at

I noticed that the name of the American quarter-miler who finished in third place in that race (behind Juantorena and Beck) was Robert Taylor. Five years before the 1977 I.A.A.F. World Cup was held in Dusseldorf, an American guy by the name of Robert Taylor won the Silver medal in the 100 metres sprint at Olympic Games in Munich. Was it the same guy, I wonder?

These were great championships. Soon, however, to be supplanted by the world athletic championships

one of my idols is volker beck

[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: best time for the 800 metres - which was set some 4 years earlier, in the summer of 1977 - one sees that he covered each 400 metres of the race in a time of 51.72 seconds. That is impressive, of course - but, for a man with a personal best time (for the 400 metres) of 44.26, it is not remarkably quick. After all, the differential between 44.26 and 51.72 is 7.46 seconds. And let us not forget that

@deano27671 Thank you for that information about Robert Taylor, Deano. He was obviously a versatile athlete, who was blesed with pretty a high (if not exceptional) degree of natural talent for the 100m, 200m and 400m. During recent weeks, I have spent a quite a lot of time looking at footage [on You Tube] of Valeriy Borzov's sprinting performances at the Munich Olympic Games of '72. Funnily enough, it occurred to me the other day that the big American - who finished just over a metre

Still won!

@gakaface ...Kipketer and Rudisha were/are essentially 400m runners who blast out the first 400m in 48.x seconds and hang on for a second lap of 53.x seconds in order to achieve their best times. Their second lap times are far inferior to Coe, Ovett and Juantarena thus far. Oh, and remember, here's the anomaly, Juantarena was also a 400m (44.28s) Olympic champion. Just imagine him being at his peak and racing Rudisha today, on a high grade tartan track!

@gakaface ...this is the fastest second lap of any 800 metres ever seen. Even if Coe had not got into so much tactical trouble, he would not have caught Ovett having given him a two metres head start at the bell. While I am a big fan of Coe's achievements, Ovett and Juantarena were also giants in the 800 metres event but their achievements are sometimes overshadowed and overlooked by what came afterwards...

@juliomiguel6597

6 ай бұрын

Juantorena never got to his full potential in 800 m due to injuries. Less than two years into the event he lost his prime. In this year 1977 he got operated again ( had been twice before Montreal Games ) didn't fully recovered and could never properly train again. Look to Coe for example, it took to him a least seven years to get his best peformances in the event.

What was Coe's last 400m in the 1980 800m?

When I ran the 400 in lane 8 I got eat up

@deano27671 [Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Robert Taylor] behind Borzov in the 100m final in Munich - probably had greater potential as as 200 metres sprinter than as a 100 metre man. It was noticeable that, in that famous sprint race in Munich - on 1st Sept. '72 - he finished the race very strongly. At the 60 metre point, Taylor appeared to be about five feet [1.52 metres] behind Borzov. But by the finish, the gap between them was significantly smaller than that.

@Muninman

Жыл бұрын

Borzov was clearly easing up, which was a shame because he would have been the second to break 20 with FAT. He also riled the Americans by claiming he was only at about 70% effort in the race.

Only by a bare yard...lol...the fox toying with the chickens!

@gakaface ... on the first lap. So, on with the top 3 performances: in at number 3: Seb Coe, 1979 European Cup, Lap 2 = 51.4 secs, finish 1:47.27 great finish but the opposition was really mediocre and the first lap was really slow. In at number 2: Alberto Juantarena - 1977 World Cup, Lap 2 - 51.5, finish 1:44.03 incredible high quality race against Mike Boit with a fast first lap. And at number 1: Steve Ovett, 1980 800m Olympic Games, Lap 2 - 50.7, finish 1:45.40...

@SirPeter6464

3 жыл бұрын

Good spot. Ovett's second lap in Moscow was massively underrated. Sure from a slow first, but really long and hard giving nobody a chance. Coe cocked up, but he would have had to get near his very best to actually win. Rare that an athlete can win gold in his second event. Indeed nobody had more talent and less to show for it than Ovett.

@gakaface You have to remember that Juantarena raced very sparsely and had a very short career. Coe and Ovett also raced sparsely over long careers. Not only this but they were also very selective in their races, choosing to avoid quality competition at the peak of their careers until the major championships...

@joemcm1

3 жыл бұрын

no way-ovett and coe raced all the time when fit-they only ever avoided each other...and even that sort of had more to do with how they trained for a season.out of championship seasons coe peaked early,ovett later and that was really the big reason they didn't race each other-they would only face each other at peak

[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: time (for 800m) was: 1:43.44 secs. Coe's PB was 1.71 seconds faster - at 1:41.73. I consider Coe's 800m time to be absolutely brilliant - given that he was a (relatively) mediocre 400 metres runner who could only just break 47 seconds at that distance. When the British middle-distance star broke the world

@juliomiguel6597

6 ай бұрын

Juantorena lost too early his best condition due to injuries. He had been less than 2 years in 800 m. Consider it took to Coe at lest 7 years to reach his marks. With his speed in 400 I guess he could have got to times closer to Radisha's in two or three more years.

No way, he's mine too O_O

[Continuing on from my previous 'post' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: endurance - in that respect, he put the big Cuban athlete to shame. A couple of statistics highlight the fact that Coe's endurance was vastly superior to Juantorena's. Let us take a look at the respective personal best times (for 400 metres and 800 metres, respectively) of the two athletes. Juantorena's personal best for the shorter distance was: 44.26. Coe's was 46.87. Obviously, therefore,

[Continuing on from my previous 'posts' about Alberto Juantorena and Sebastian Coe]: Juantorena was by far the better 400 metres runner. In fact, judging by the respective PB's of the two athletes, he would have beaten Coe by a distance of 20 metres or more in a one-lap race. However, when one examines the respective best performances of Juantorena and Coe at the 800 metres event, it becomes apparent that Coe was WAY superior to the big Cuban in terms of endurance. Juantorena's personal best

I bet Volker Beck felt a bit hard done by after he won the original race although 45.50 here and 48.83 in the 400 hurdles were both national records. Robert Taylor obviously didnt learn anything from the original race because he eased up at the line for a second time and again lost a place in the final few meters.

I never seen this man lose did he and to whom?

@markadams2388

5 жыл бұрын

Andy Rock lost to Ronnie Ray of North Carolina Central University at 1975 Pan Am Games. Winning time was 44.45

Volker Beck !

One can hear the bias of the announcer against the "Cuban".

Brute strength won Juantorena this race.

@gakaface ...To say Coe had great speed-endurance compared to Juantarena is not true. Juantarena ran just as fast as Coe ever did on the second lap of an 800m race, even in his short career, but he never had the races that Coe had. If he had, he might have been even better. Same applies for Steve Ovett. And what about the world beaters that followed? Wilson Kipketer and David Rudisha? How do their second laps compare? At present, not very favourably...

アルベルト・ファントレナ　キューバ

wan torrina inspired to win as he received x-tra food rations and gas stamps from cuba gov.

Adesso con quel tempo farebbe ridere

@Trackreator

10 ай бұрын

ma lui non è tipo lo zio del giocatore di pallavolo italiano? anche lui si chiama Juantoreña (o come cavolo si scrive!)

Volker Beck

@TheBaptisia thats because it's not effective.

Juantorena isla also AMERICAN!!!HE FROM CUBA WICHT IS AN AMERICA COUNTRY!!!!!!

and the gave him lane 8, the worst one

terrible commentator

@archiewoosung5062

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, Ron Pickeing...once said he didn't understand why anybody who wasn't world class bothered with athletics