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Realising he was operating at record pace, Giles cranked up the tempo for the final circuit – covered in 26.35 – and crossed the line a clear winner in 1:43.63. Fellow Briton Jamie Webb finished second in a huge PB of 1:44.54 – also inside Coe’s previous national indoor record – to move up to ninth on the world indoor all-time list. Andreas Kramer was third in a Swedish indoor record of 1:45.09, while world indoor champion Adam Kszczot was fourth in 1:45.22 – his fastest indoor perf...

Great Britain’s Elliot Giles Runs 1:43.63 for 800 (#2 All-Time) at Copernicus Cup in Torun February 17, 2021 The wild winter that is the 2021 indoor track season continued on Wednesday at the Copernicus Cup World Indoor Tour Gold meet in Torun, Poland. Scarcely a week after a meet in Lievin, France, that saw the world record tumble in the women’s 1500 meters (and near-WRs in three other events), Great Britain’s  Elliot Giles ran 1:43.63 to win the men’s 800 in Torun and log the #2 tim...

Wednesday, 17 February 2021 Britain’s Elliot Giles produced one of the outstanding performances of the 2021 indoor athletics season in winning the 800 metres at Polish venue Torun in 1min 43.63sec, putting him second on the all-time list. Only Wilson Kipketer, who clocked 1:42.67 in winning the world indoor title in Paris in 1997, has ever run faster indoors, and the 26-year-old from Birmingham has now bettered the British record of 1:44.91 set back in 1983 at Cosford by Sebastian Coe. Giles...