1979 Mens 800m European Cup TURIN - Seb Coe

Seb Coe beating the 1978 European Champion from GDR.

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• 1979
• European
• Cup
• Seb
• Coe
• Olympics
• 800m
• 1980

[athlete5399]

A agree, athletics was different back then, it had personalities. Today there's too much money involved and it's lost it's heart.

[deano27671]

Greatest 800m runner ever! At his best there has been no one since that could beat him.

[deano27671]

Actually the field in Moscow wasn't any tougher, Ovett apart. The difference here was that the 3rd 200m didn't speed up as much as in Moscow, when Warren went really hard at the bell & Coe ran all the penultimate bend in lane 2 & 3 to stay in touch. Here he kept in touch with the leaders & was still fresh when the Yugoslav athlete kicked at about 250m. Coe knew he was much faster over the closing 200m. I agree he probably had the same idea in the Moscow final, but he didn't execute it the same.

[cuffy68]

wrong sport i was looking for and id forgot how good he was !

[AAVista]

@athlete5399 Definitely no heart! In fact, I would rather race with a woman and even wear her uniforms! Beyond taken literally. I want each and every athlete to have a personality, just like back in the day. I don't really want to be THE fastest man on Earth. I just want to show that I can be as good as anything and yet have a personality. Meanwhile, I am exploring a still-alive but declining triathlon trend. See my Prototype 2-piece Tri-Style Sprint Race Suit video.

[gracko14]

@KingLiopleurodon Do explain!

[deano27671]

10 days after this Coe broke the 1500m WR, running solo over the last 800m. His speed (shown in 4x400)faster than it had been 7 weeks earlier in Oslo, he intended to have a crack at his own 800m WR in Brussels a week after Zurich. Fate intervened, however, as a few days before, while running in Hyde Park alongside a car for pace, he was stopped by the police wanting to know what he was up to. By the time they left, Coe' s muscles had cooled down & he got an injury as soon as he started running!

[deano27671]

About an hour after this (in what was the pre cursor to this Wkends' European Team Cup, only it had a far higher relevance in those days,..all the top names ran) Coe ran the anchor leg for the UK in the 4 x 400m relay, recording the fastest leg (45.5) on the team, even faster than Harold Schmid's (the fastest in the world over 400m that year at 44.92) 45.7 anchor. Even more impressive, none of the UK squad that ran in yesterday's competition ran faster, the quickest being 45.7 from C. Williams!

[KingLiopleurodon]

This is one of the fastest finishes of all time in any 800, yes. Coe was simply amazing coming off his 45.5 400meter relay leg in this same competition. Ovett was disturbed enough by this run to have mentally ceded the 800 in Moscow before he even ran.

But as is often the case here, Deano is out of hand with his claim. Peter Snell is the greatest 800m runner ever, not Coe. We all know why.

[deano27671]

There is no one today that can run a last 200m (wide in lane 2) in 24.1 in a 1:47 race, or the last 100m (waving) in 11.9. If he had run the bend in lane 1 rather than lane 2, it would have been a last 200m of 23.6!! Meaning he ran the curve in approx 11.7. He could have run 1:41.0 late in 81, so now, with advances in training and faster tracks (not to mention competitors capable of running 1:43.0) he would be knocking on the door of 1:40 flat.

[bombay55100]

Imagine how fast Coe would be if he ran today...*faints*

[deano27671]

He was playing with the rest of the field here. Rare to see an athlete with such blatant confidence, knowing he would win whatever the pace was.

[MrM0j0Risin666]

Little arm waving fucking faggot.