Wilson Kipketer - Men's 800m (WR) - 1997 Zurich Meet

Weltklasse Track and Field Meet
Zürich, Switzerland
August 13, 1997
Men’s 800m A Race:
1) Wilson Kipketer - 1:41.24 (WR)
2) Patrick Ndururi - 1:42.62
3) Rich Kenah - 1:43.38
4) Patrick Konchellah - 1:43.80
5) Marko Koers - 1:44.04
6) Vebjorn Rodal - 1:45.29
7) Andre Bucher - 1:46.02
8) Andrea Longo - 1:47.83
Joseph Tengelei - DNF
Norberto Tellez - DNF

[@GeoAce777]

when the Weltklasse was the Weltklasse

[@robinbauer1975]

Greatest 800m WR ever. One half secomd better than a 17 year old WR (from Coe) and this insane running form that is so much better and smoother than anyone in history

[@jasonstewart194]

This is easily the most miraculous 800m race in history. How he holds to run this time of basically 23.0/48.3 is mind-blowing. I can only wonder if they had got the pace right here (24.0/49.0) what he could have run here. 3 days later he ran 1.42.77 in Monaco closing in 24.6 - somewhere in the middle of all of this was a 1.40.7/8

[@newtonpeart8573]

Just imagine a race with Rudisha's crazy first lap of 48.0