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Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, CH KBE (born 29 September 1956), often referred to as Seb Coe or Lord Coe, is a British politician and former track and field athlete. As a middle-distance runner, Coe won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984. He set eight outdoor and three indoor world records in middle-distance track events – including, in 1979, setting three world records in the space of 41 days – and the world record he set in the 800 metres in 1981 remained unbroken until 1997. Coe's rivalries with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram dominated middle-distance racing for much of the 1980s.
Following Coe's retirement from athletics, he was a member of parliament for the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1997 for Falmouth in Cornwall, and became a Life Peer on 16 May 2000. He headed the successful London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and became chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and re-elected for another four-year term in 2011. In August 2015 he was elected president of the IAAF.
Zurich Weltklasse track and field meeting 22 August 1984. Sebastian Coe in sparkling form, shortly after retaining his Olympic title in Los Angeles. Although intended as an attempt on Steve Ovett's then-world record, the pacemaking in the middle part of this race wasn't good enough to allow Coe to challenge the record. Despite this, it was a very impressive performance, and was one of the top 20 times ever recorded at that time. Video recorded from original broadcast. No copyright infringement intended.
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Coe, showing good form on the way into the 1980 Olympics, took a half a second off of Rick Wohlhuter's 1000m world record to become the only man in history to concurrently hold the 800/1000/1500 and mile WR's.This distinction lasted for just an hour when his great rival and compatriot Steve Ovett took the mile record at the same meet!
Jon Snow questions International Association of Athletics Federations President Lord Coe. The London 2012 boss was Vice President of the IAAF during the period when allegations of doping took place.
From the pre race interviews it seemed that the other established milers assumed that Coe,who had walloped the 800 metres WR by over a second on this same track just ten days earlier,wouldn't like the pace over the longer distance if it was too fast.They were wrong.Coe just breezed it,taking nearly half a second off of Walker's mile WR in the process.
Another superb demonstration by the then world record holder, Seb Coe, in his greatest season, 1981. The European Cup used to be held at the end of every other season, and represented a much more important competition that the current European Team competition held at the beginning of each season. In July 1981 Coe ran in the Europa Cup semi final competition in Helsinki over 800m to help guarantee the British team a place in the final, held in August in Zagreb. Both races were relatively slow and tactical, but in each Coe displayed finishing kicks of unrivaled power. In Helsinki he won in 1:47.57 with a last 200m of 24.5 and the fastest last 100m ever recorded in an international 800m race, 11.3! The final here was won in 1:47.02, with a last 200m of 24.6 and a last 100m of 11.9. The ma...
Four days after front running and winning the 800m at Crystal Palace in a World Leading 1:44.06, and then anchoring the English relay to victory against the USA with a 45.6 split, Coe was again to test out his speed for the English relay team. This time it was in a 3-way match between England, Scotland and Italy in Gateshead. Coe did not run an individual event here, choosing instead to sharpen his speed before an 800m outing in Florence, Italy, 3 days later. From the video, it can be seen that Coe went off fairly leisurely, while the Italian 400m runner latched onto his shoulder, expecting no doubt, that he would get past Coe in the home straight. Although this split was not one of Coe's fastest, at 46.5, it was nonetheless, an impressive "kick" in the last 80m to pull away from the s...
I conducted this interview with Sebastian Coe back in 1990, soon after he retired, while I was working as a producer for Eurosport. 10 years earlier, I had sat in the Lenin Stadium on that quite literally golden afternoon of Friday August 1, 1980, when he raced away below me to Olympic immortality.I cut this using my VHS recording of the race, hence the less than HD quality!
One second in time may separate the great athlete from the merely good. Seb Coe has made every second count. From an early age he has been driven to be the best at everything he does. Since the moment Coe stood alongside a 'scrubby' municipal running track in Sheffield, he knew that sport could change his life. It did. Breaking an incredible twelve world records and three of them in just forty-one days, Seb became the only athlete to take gold at 1500 metres in two successive Olympic Games (Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984). The same passion galvanised Coe in 2005, when he led Britain's bid to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games to London. He knew that if we won it would regenerate an East London landscape and change the lives of thousands of young people. It has. Born in Hammersmi...
2012 Olympics boss Lord Seb Coe chats with Absolute Radio's Tumshie Smillie at the Olympic Park on the one year countdown to the London Games. Watch more great Olympic videos right now at absoluteradio.co.uk!
Video about the forthcoming London Youth Games which was part of the London 2012 Olympic preparations, featuring interviews with multiple Olympic medal winner Dean Macey and legendary British athlete and head of the London 2012 Committe, Sebastian Coe. Edited and Directed by Nick Swinglehurst. Produced by Martina Johnson for StyleJunkies.
41 days after shattering the world record for 800 metres,followed by the mile record ,Coe went after Bayi's 5 year old 1500m. WR.He made it,just,after some erratic pacing. He thus became the only person ever to concurrently hold the WR's for all three distances.
Joe Mason interviews Chair of LOCOG, Lord Sebastian Coe at the Official opening of the Olympic Stadium, the BUCS 2012 Championships in London, 2012 hours before the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Camera: Andrew Seddon and Joe Foley Producers: Joe Mason