Athletics
Coe chronicles: 1976 to 1979 – early senior strides to first world record
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Athletics
Sunday, 27 December 2020 13:30
In part three of a six-part series on Seb Coe’s career, Steve Smythe looks at his races in the late 1970s After a promising but not earth-shattering junior career Seb Coe moved on to the senior ranks as there was no under-23 competition back then. He was still a teenager for the whole of the 1976 track season but he…
Sebastian Coe: Britain’s greatest ever athlete?
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Athletics
Saturday, 26 December 2020 07:36
In the first of a six-part series we look at the competitive highlights of the World Athletics president Sebastian Coe with details of more than 200 of his races in a near 20-year career Just short of 50 years ago, Sebastian Coe started his running career and 10 years later he was probably the most famous runner in the world…
Coe chronicles – the junior years
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Athletics
Saturday, 26 December 2020 07:41
In part two of a six-part series looking at Seb Coe’s racing history, we list his competitions from 1971-75 Sebastian Newbold Coe was born on September 29, 1956, just less than a year after a certain Steve Ovett. His first appearance in AW was in 1971 but he had competed before that but none of his results appeared in the…
Amy Hunt looks forward to delayed Olympics
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Athletics
Saturday, 26 December 2020 04:34
Teenage sprinter began studying at Cambridge University this winter but has stepped up her training with Tokyo in her sights For many, the postponement of the Olympics in Tokyo was a huge blow. Fans were looking forward to the action. Older established athletes were keen to compete while they were still at the peak of their careers. Yet mention the…
My greatest race – Ian Stewart
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Athletics
Thursday, 24 December 2020 02:54
Stewart recounts his march to global glory on the Soussi Racecourse in Morocco when he followed European Indoor gold with a World Cross title a mere seven days later World Cross Country Championships, Rabat, March 16, 1975 Coming into that winter of 1974, I’d had about 18 months out of athletics when I’d stopped and been doing cyclo-cross. After the…
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