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Aug 17, 2023 · Aug 17 (Reuters) - Sebastian Coe was re-elected president of World Athletics for a third term, the governing body said in a statement after its 54th Congress in Budapest on Thursday. Raul Chapado ...
Oct 14, 2022 · Sebastian COE Athletics. (2022 Getty Images) World Athletics is exploring ways to breathe new life into its flagship track and field meetings, including introducing a repechage round to all individual track events from 200m to 1500m, including the hurdles events, for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Coe is one of the finest middle distance runners the world has ever seen; the only man to have won 1500m Olympic gold twice. Intense rivalry. Seb Coe reached his peak at the same time as two other world class British middle-distance runners: Steve Cram and Steve Ovett. His career was defined by a series of epic duels with this pair.
On 15 August 1979, Sebastian Coe set a world record over 1500m at Zurich’s fabled Weltklasse meeting. It was hardly unexpected. The British athlete had set world records for 800m and the mile at separate meetings in Oslo a month earlier and it was known he was looking for a fast run in Zurich.
Sebastian Coe was born on September 29, 1956 in London, England, as the oldest of four children born to Peter Coe, an engineer, and Angela Coe, an actress. His father was an athletic man and a cyclist, who encouraged Sebastian to play sports from a young age.
Jun 10, 2021 · 10 June 1981 remains a red-letter day in the long history of 800m running, for it was in Florence late that night that Sebastian Coe lowered his own world record from 1:42.33 to 1:41.73. Every world record is special, marking as it does an advance on anything previously achieved, but Coe's run was extra-special.
