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A men's 800m has been held at every Olympic Games since 1896. Women first contested it at the 1928 Games, but it was dropped from the roster and reinstated in 1960. Athletes from five different continents - North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Oceania - have won gold in the 800m at the Olympic Games.

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The longest-standing track world record is the women's 800m set by Jarmila Kratochvilova, competing then for Czechoslovakia in 1983. Today, only one athlete in Kenya's Pamela Jelimo has come within a second of that 1:53.28 world record from Munich.

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Great Britain's Sebastian Coe owned the 800-meter world record for the longest time, from July 5, 1979, through Aug. 13, 1997.

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On a sunny summer evening in 2012, eight runners elevated the 800 meters into high art. One set a world record. Several others were never the same. Kenya's David Rudisha won the men's 800 in.

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Men's 800Meter World Records, Recognized by the IAAF

World Record Progression of 800 Metres male - SENIOR Legend * Pending ratification. Mx: mixed gender race. Wo: women only race. (i): set indoor.

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The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the first modern games in 1896. During the winter track season the event is usually run by completing four laps of an indoor 200-metre track.

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Before the final, Kenya's double Olympic champion and world record-holder David Rudisha, present in the Hungarian capital as an event ambassador, advised Wanyonyi on tactics. Rudisha, who set his world record of 1:40.91 in winning the 2012 Olympic title by running from the front, told his young compatriot on no account to do the same thing.

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The 800m world record that she broke in 1983 was held by Nadezhda Olizarenko, who ran 1:53.43 to win gold for the host nation at the 1980 Olympics. While our eyes are drawn to Kratochvílová's.

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The 800 m world record has never been broken at the competition by either men or women. [2] Maria Mutola is the most successful athlete of the event: from a period spanning 1993 to 2003, she won three gold medals, one silver and one bronze in the World Championships 800 m.

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Sebastian Coe broke the 800m world record in Firenze. 10th June 2020 00:54. Back in 1954, there had been a famous UFO sighting above Firenze's Stadio Comunale and 27 years later it looked like the aliens might have landed locally and taken over the body of Sebastian Coe. Certainly, Coe's performance on 10 June 1981, with the 24-year-old.