Steve Ovett - World Record - 1 Mile Run - 1980

[@playthatgeetar]

Steve - my idol. The greatest ever. Ever.

[@mathematics5573]

Ovett is the most prolific 1500m and mile WR holder since WW2. So he literally is the greatest since 1945.

[@mathematics5573]

@Rob he is just current world record holder. It took HeG 3 olympics to win gold. Ovett did it at 1st serious attempt. Ovett set 5 world record at 1500m and mile outdoors. HeG set 2. so who is better?

[@simonedwards5564]

@Rob Hicham el gl 1=1500m WORLD RECORD 1=MILE WORLD RECORD/OVETT 3=1500m WORLD RECORDS 2,=1 MILE WORLDS there were times when OVETT should have buried the mile world RECORD LIKE the dream MILE 1981when he literally cruised....CRUISED A 3:49'25 mile in oslo !!!!!!!!!! He just wanted the win but he could have run 3:46/3:47 that night in Oslo....he did that a few times ESPECIALLY in 1981!!!!!!! COE was the same...look how easy he looks in the Brussels golden MILE cruising through 1500m in 3:32,93_ and sure enough the last 109 metres in 14.4 seconds 13.1 last 100m !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OVETT and COE SHOULD HAVE REWRITTEN HISTORY A WHOLE HEAP OF TIMES!!!!!!!!!! OVETT WAS THE MOST PROLIFIC!!!!!!!!!

[@djangorheinhardt]

​@@mathematics5573 Yeah Steve is one of my heros but greatest since 1945 ?? I always look to the great Herb Elliot as the greatest since 1945 but there is little between them.There is also the spectre of Seb Coe ,he must be in the mix .But what a great,fabulous time for British milers .For the opponents you could say,including Cram, If seb or Cramy don't get ya,Steve will, if Steve don't get ya Seb will,and so on .I miss all three of them cos those terrific days are only a memory q .

[@elainekerslake6865]

Ron Pickering said ....Enjoy this era...it won't come again. He was right!

[@user-ro7ee7]

Forever... Super Steve The Best Ovett My favorite...

[@damienabbott9805]

Steve Ovett was a natural born runner

[@jeffallinson8089]

Incredible meeting and a tremendous race.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

2 worlds records from Coe and Ovett in 1 meet - Kathy Smallwood Alan Wells British Record - legendary days.

[@jeffallinson8089]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[@rodolfopuente6334]

Magnífico triunfo

[@peteralainszpiriev4750]

Coe, Ovett,Cram only the music of Vangelis? This is heroic any way. Fantastic. The feel when nobody catch You from behind is timeless.

[@motormouthalmighty]

aw 1980 was mind blowing!talk about miss it!we're getting further away from it,every day eh,towards the void itself.oh 1980!what a memory that is eh!

[@MrGranfield]

Disgraceful that they had to wait so long for the official time.

[@deano27671]

That only emerged in the mid 90's when it was undetectable until a test late in 2000. Even then it was considered an unreliable test until a new one was introduced around 2005. It was in the late 90's don't forget when all the current WR's from 800m to 2 Miles were set by 4 different athletes, whose times no one cam get near over a decade later. They're the ones to be suspicious of.

[@JoshMcRay]

@CoDCaliforniaPro I think I might understand the confusion. A mile is 1609 meters, a 1600 is just a 1600 race thats only run in the united States, a 1500 is a metric mile.

[@walterchambers9842]

Steve Ovett the greatest

[@eifersucht2]

I really do not understand the logic of the 1500 and the 3000. Honestly, why not just make it 1600 and 3200? Here we have the 100, 200, 400, 800 corresponding to .25, .5, 1 & 2 laps, respectively, then we randomly break the pattern and run 1500 and 3000 corresponding to 3.75 & 7.5 laps?? This is where the metric system takes a dive. we should either have a 500 meter track with 125, 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 3000 races (which would be stupid) or a 400m track with 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200.

[@MrFlash215]

ok when track season starts ill film it, or when schools starts.

[@simonedwards5564]

IT is true that OVETT ran the mile in 3:59 chasing nick 🌹 rose 🌹 1974 aged 16/17 but officials were outraged and gave him 4:00 instead !!!!!!!!!!!!! Nick rose (who smashed the barrier that day) was less than a second in front of OVETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@joemcm1]

yes!

[@nfelvis68]

Why didn't anybody take selfies at the end?

[@francishooton3933]

mobiles didn't exist then

[@nfelvis68]

Francis Hooton correct!

[@TheGlassman63]

Jeez, how come it took so long to clarify the time ?

[@Ignore14]

@zippo7224 he would take 100 meter stride

[@Perucamuchita]

i wonder how the guy at the end feels =P

[@MrFlash215]

Promise! Wait is that good that i ran 4.05 it was really 4.16 but my fastest was a 4.05... so is that fast?

[@KeithGreenan-e7d]

Very fast

[@MrFlash215]

Im turning 14 next month...

[@CoDCaliforniaPro]

Yeah... I'm in track in highschool as well as cross country, and I'm pretty sure a mile is 1600 meters. So aren't they stopping 100 meters short? Whats that another 12-14 seconds?

[@IndigoGamingl337]

Yeah sure there buddy. Sure....

[@MrFlash215]

So in this case yeah ill see you at the olympics in the near future.... what is your name?

[@TheSagittarian4e]

their mile pace would be my 100m pace....MAYBE.

[@SiickMiiles]

Get someone to film you doing it. thats what im going to do.

[@SiickMiiles]

Dude people don't believe me either i ran it in 3:59 mins I just turned 16

[@elainekerslake6865]

I broke 5 mins without using my legs.

[@KeithGreenan-e7d]

​@@elainekerslake6865we know you used a car

[@MrFlash215]

i ran 1 mile in 4 minutes and 5 seconds... and im 13.

[@djangorheinhardt]

Eh?

[@KeithGreenan-e7d]

You should run about 342 as an adult

[@MrFlash215]

no really... i did...well im off by a few seconds but still i did...

[@estifanico]

@PONYBOY430 hhhhhhh you are soooooooooooooo mistaken..that was the time when they abused drugs cos most of them could NOT be detected..and that's why the British dominated..steve ovett,steve cram,sebastian coe,dave morecroft..etc..then right after them you would never hear of a british middle distance runner again who would even qualify to the final.

[@jamescarpenter6585]

Sparta Frenchie…ignorant scumbag comment

[@richybatty234]

Bullshit .

[@barnyardian22]

Yeah sure there buddy. Sure...