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Wednesday, 3 March 2021
European Athletics will stage the first multi-discipline championships in the sport since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic when the 36
th edition of its Indoor Championships start at the Torun Arena in Poland tomorrow.
Among the world-class athletes who will be taking advantage of this landmark opportunity will be Norway’s 20-year-old European 1500 and 5,000 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who will seek to earn the 1500-3,000m double that just eluded him at these Championships in Glasgow two years ago.
On that occasion, having won the 3,000m title, Ingebrigtsen was tracked and outsprinted to 1,500m gold by Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski, who will contest both events for a host country seeking to top the medal table at the Indoor Championships for a third successive time.
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.
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, whose outdoor best, set in September last year, is 1:44.68, had indicated his ability to achieve such a time by winning the 800m at the opening World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Karlsruhe in January, and at the Gold meeting in Liévin on February 9, when he clocked
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Grant Holloway, the world 110 metres hurdles champion, will have a world record in his sights again as he competes tomorrow in the Polish venue of Torun in the fifth of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.
The 23-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia came within 0.02sec of the world 60m hurdles record set in 1994 by Britain’s Colin Jackson when he clocked 7.32sec in winning at the third Gold meeting in the French city of Liévin last Tuesday (February 9).
Unlike many of his United States colleagues who shone at the fourth Gold meeting in New York City on Saturday (February 13), Holloway - who equalled his US record of 7.35 earlier this season - has shifted his field of operation to Europe, and the move is paying off, as he now owns the five fastest times in the world this year.