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 1997 World Indoor title in Paris, has gone faster indoors. Giles’ time today was a big shock as coming in his outright pb was just 1:44.56 and his indoor pb was just 1:45.46. Giles, the 4th placer at World Indoors in 2018 and two-time World Championships semifinalist outdoors, is just the third man to break 1:44 undercover.