- Giles clocks 1min 43.63sec, second-fastest time in history
- Coe had held the British indoor 800m record since 1982
Sebastian Coe has insisted he was delighted to see Britain’s Elliot Giles shatter his British indoor 800m record in a performance so astonishing it reignited the debate over the new wave of super spikes.
Giles’s time of 1min 43.63sec in Torun, Poland on Wednesday, was so fast it not only shattered Coe’s previous British indoor record, set in 1982, by more than a second, but was the second-fastest time in history. Only the three-times world champion Wilson Kipketer, with a time of 1min 42.67sec in 1997, has gone faster indoors.
Written by Sean Ingle
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