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2: Romania, Cuba 1: Britain, Belarus, Portugal, Uganda, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, South Africa, Qatar, Ecuador, Japan, Australia, Turkey, Bahrain, Ukraine, Germany The first thing to note is the sheer globalisation of the sport in recent decades. Where the same few nations tend to dominate at the top of medal tables, there are a greater number of nations producing global medal-standard athletes than ever before. Two of the most recent indoor world records (both from triple jump) came from Venezuela and Burkina Faso - two countries with almost no athletics heritage whatsoever. Greater competiti...

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 time in the event’s history. Only  Wilson Kipketer, who set the world record of 1:42.67 to win the 1...

For an athlete pursuing glory over 800m in Tokyo this summer, the Olympic Park in London would seem a perfect place to prepare. “It’s where David Rudisha set the world record for my event,” says