Sunday, 29 August 2010

David Rudisha 800m world record

Kenyan David Rudisha tonight in Italy broke the 800m world record he set on August 22nd 2010 in Berlin.
Here's a link to the Berlin record....aus Deutsch! ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_of87fPA6fg&feature=player_embedded#at=42

And well lets see if this embeddeed HTML works :

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Posted by mcgrath at 21:04
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3 comments:

board tc said...

Did it all on his own, awesome, he must have been going for a nice bonus!

The 21 year old ran 1.41.01 beating his week old mark of 1.41.09.

The previous best of 1:41.11, set by Kenyan Wilson Kipketer's had stood since 1997.

Monday, August 30, 2010 10:59:00 am
mcdaid said...

You cant comment on 800m racing without going back to the man who revolutionised the event, seb coe, who set the previous world mark of 1.41.73 back in 1981. He's still the third fastest man ever over the distance.

And we wont talk about Jarmila Kratochvílová's women's world mark which dates from the good old days of the iron curtain.

Monday, August 30, 2010 4:22:00 pm
board tc said...

Excellent point, Kipketer's record latest 13 years, Seb Coe's 16 years.

Coe was so unlucky never to win Olympic gold at 800m but amazingly did so back to back in the 1500m. Phenomenally, when beating Steve Cram in LA in '84 to win his second gold, he finished the last 100m in 12.7 seconds.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:32:00 pm

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