Behind The Numbers: Why Brodey Hasty's 3K Is So Special

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Brentwood Track Club's (TN) Brodey Hasty became the second-fastest outdoor high school boys 3K athlete in US history on Saturday night in Nashville, Tennessee. He now sits behind only Drew Hunter from
Purcellville, Virginia, who ran 7:59.33 indoors in 2016 and German Fernandez from Riverbank, California, who ran 7:59.83 outdoors in 2008. 

Looking at only outdoor 3Ks, Hasty joins an exclusive list of athletes. Looking back to as far as 2001* there have been only two other athletes to run sub-8:10 in the 3K. Those athletes are Fernandez (7:59.83) and Galen Rupp (8:03.67). Matt Centrowitz came close to running sub-8:10 when he ran 8:10.30 in 2007 at Nike Outdoor Nationals

The number of guys to run sub-8:20 since 2001 is only 28. Take a look at the table below to get an idea of how the numbers break down over the last six years. The table shows the number of athletes under 9:00 minutes in the 300m all the way down to the number of athletes who've run sub-eight minutes.  

Year Sub 8:00Sub 8:15Sub 8:30Sub 8:45Sub 9:00
201802857113
201700642112
2016003263136
2015001354136
2014003682

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