![](https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/295034/david-rudisha.jpg)
London Olympics 2012 Rudisha Smashes World Record to Win 800m Gold
Records; Send Competition Results; World Rankings; Personal Best; Be Active . Personal Best; Lifestyle; Performance;. World Rankings Men's 800m (600m-1000m) Share Tweet Email Filter World Rankings. 800m 2 Marco AROP.
![](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/CAfuM4fdpUHWuTvr1_C2EWdkLzU=/0x0:4159x2773/1820x1213/filters:focal(1706x168:2370x832)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69671594/GettyImages_1332133738.0.jpg)
Athing Mu wins historic gold in women’s 800meter race at Tokyo Olympics REVOLT
Rank Mark WIND Competitor DOB
![](https://media.aws.iaaf.org/media/BannerNews/8bc7682e-d4bb-43a8-9ea7-b962c00cc803.jpg?v=-2003946236)
Rudisha’s 800m world record in London voted athletics moment of the decade News
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.
![](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02306/rudisha_2306835k.jpg)
David Rudisha's 800m world record was the standout performance of the London 2012 Olympics
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.
![](https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/sports/files/2021/08/1Emmanuel4.jpg)
Emmanuel Korir now sets sight King Rudisha's 800m World record Capital Sports
Donavan Brazier dominates the field in the 800m world championship final, breaking the American and world championship records in the process at 1:42.34 #NBC.
![](https://cdn.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/1427431.jpg)
Kenyan David Rudisha breaks men's 800m world record
Rudisha Breaks World Record - Men's 800m Final | London 2012 Olympics Olympics 10.8M subscribers Subscribe Subscribed Like Share 12M views 11 years ago #Beijing2022 #Tokyo2020 📲 Want to.
![](https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/PD3rfwDaBW879Kg8T-ZXSj_VMPE=/3639x2493/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-81685121-5b2958833418c6003658aebe.jpg)
Women's 800Meter World Records
Greatest 800m Olympic final ever? David Rudisha takes aim at the world record in 2012 | NBC Sports - YouTube © 2023 Google LLC Kenya's David Rudisha was already the 800m world record.
![](https://fthmb.tqn.com/uD6-UrNHQRapHhv4iUKZeeZfQYA=/2620x3456/filters:fill(auto,1)/davidrudisha-IanMacNicol-5658d4115f9b5835e458ee7c.jpg)
David Rudisha Profile of 800Meter Runner
F orty years ago this week, on a chaotic June night in Florence, Sebastian Coe set an 800m world record so breathtakingly supreme it stood for 16 years. His time, 1:41:73, remains instant.
![](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/11/22/300B77A900000578-0-image-m-27_1452549996865.jpg)
As UK athletics propose wiping all world records, here are five that deserve to go Daily Mail
800 metres world record progression The following table shows the world record progression in the men's and women's 800 metres, officially ratified by the IAAF . Men The first world record in the men's 800 metres was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. [1]
![](https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/yjpc6NMWo_CGaE5hRRJu6hSzCRI=/4000x2552/filters:fill(auto,1)/athletics---olympics--day-10-590676336-5b219ade3128340036033277.jpg)
Men's 800Meter World Records, Recognized by the IAAF
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.
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Gik85qKTyh8/maxresdefault.jpg)
David Rudisha Breaks 800m World Record London 2012 Olympics YouTube
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.
![](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/09/article-0-1477511F000005DC-772_1024x615_large.jpg)
London 2012 Olympics David Rudisha wins 800m gold with world record time Daily Mail Online
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.
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UvixVAh09sk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Women’s 800m World Record History 230 to 153 YouTube
Records; Send Competition Results; World Rankings; Personal Best; Be Active . Personal Best; Lifestyle; Performance; Culture; Better World; Inside World Athletics; Library;. World Athletics Suppliers; Countdown World Athletics Championships Budapest23 19 Aug - 27 Aug 2023 Home of World Athletics senior 800 Metres men.
![](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2019/08/26/12/gettyimages-589934674.jpg)
David Rudisha Olympic champion and 800m world record…
Great Britain's Sebastian Coe owned the 800-meter world record for the longest time, from July 5, 1979, through Aug. 13, 1997.
PHOTO 800m World Record Holder David Rudisha Gives Us a Glimpse of His Beautiful Family. Chezaspin
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.
![](https://fthmb.tqn.com/Q2ny8GAQskhQ5Fx7nC1f5eul8Hs=/1992x3072/filters:fill(auto,1)/jarmilakratochvilova1987WC-800-BobMartin-Allsport-56a6d9595f9b58b7d0e51ae9.jpg)
Women's 800Meter World Records
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.