Brilliant video.

Steve Ovett is my all time favourite athlete and it was a joy to watch him In that race over Rono at Crystal Palace all those years ago.

Ovett..an all time great.

Where was this race held ..?

Great lineup

Ovett the greatest.

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this.

He was different class .Waving down the home straight and still breaking the world record.

Foster tripped over his own feet!

one nice loop is just right for a 5K😏one too many laps

When 13 minutes for the 5K seemed unobtainable....Rono was king....but Ovett could win almost any distance he chose on the right day. This was the right day.

The start of that 5000 metres was like the start to the Grand National. At least thirty runners. What a strange tactician Henry Rono was. How many times did he give up the inside lane then come running on the outside to regain the lead? Did he always run like this?

Ovett was a great runner, but I hated the way he ridiculed his opponents by his wave and showed no respect to Henry Rono who went on to an amazing year with 4 world records. But at the end and i am glad Irishman john Tracey handed him his ass when he tried that crap on him (kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHWmiqWig5iIm7M). But Ovett was a great runner, he had one olympic gold medal, lost in the 83 world championships, lost in the 84 Olympics, yes he had world records but he was never better than Coe and by 82 he wasn't better than Cram, in 82 he was no where near Dave Moorcroft (kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYK8knekqLGYd7M) and his opponents from 83 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIXYeHaCebqai7s) on could have easily ridiculed him but they had more class than that.

Crispin will be 47 now !

i love Keegan

Brilliant....well done

Great race with some real quality in the field.

Has anybody got Ovett's win in Oxford in 8k 1986?

Love watching these old videos. Great race. Thanks for uploading.

Great race! Both my dads and my step-dad were all in this race. Brings back memories!

ALL WHITE UK

Great race

This is wear Steve was better than Coe his range of distance 800 to 5,000 and beat world class athletes at that time

The sheer size of the crowds what an occasion

0:37 this guy is a legend

This is history. Absolutely brilliant to watch

Классный бегун на десятке был жалко что не стал олимпийским чемпионом

Crazy fast race. The golden years of British distance running.

13'30" road 5km is never really going to get old, is it?

Làbb

Did they let some lucky spectators to run with them? 😂

theres never been a runner like that ever-ovett stalking rono(who was world class) at a jog and then bang and it was all so effortless

Eamonn says enough of this shyte

30 mins! Where does announcer get that nonsense?

Gripping stuff, Mark. I know it's a few years since you posted all these clips of Mike's races, but I'm pleased to have stumbled across them :)

Brilliant, the runners, the event, the course and the commentary.

Don't suppose you've got any results from the race?

coghlan was v good,ovett was simply amazing

Bad idea for cram running hard like this on the road with his delicate calf muscle. Did he get injured here ?

Still exciting to watch 31 years down the track!

2 fantastic races.How about putting Eamon Coghlan in the title?. He did win. Great 2 mile race. Overt was amazing

class men

Moorecroft is such an amazingly massively awsome endurance runner!

This was a great race! Thanks for sharing! Greetings from Mexico!

I could have kicked all of your asses if I knew the value of 200 mile weeks!

My dad is Dave Lewis in this video we’re sat watching loving it! Thanks so much for sharing x

Great race!! I enjoyed the running, especially seeing Mick McLeod show them a clean pair of heels...and my wife was marvelling at all the old shops in Newcastle city centre that have now gone into the history books.

Just loved Steve ovett , pace power and a bit of arrogance

Thanks for posting this...these are great races.

only ever one winner mike mcleod was the best runner i ever seen they came from all over to try and beat him and failed