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1989:
II WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Budapest (HUN) |
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| The second edition of the championships travelled to Europe, more precisely to Budapest (Hungary), whose “Budapest Sportcsárnok” witnessed the perfoWRances of 378 athletes from 61 countries between 3 and 5 March 1989. With one of the most dazzling finishes ever to a championships middle-distance race Kenya’s Paul Ereng broke Sebastian Coe’s world record by seven hundredths (1:44.84/1:44.91). At the bell the Seoul Olympic champion was 10m behind the leader and seemed to be out of the hunt but with a last 200m segment covered in 25.7 Ereng passed three athletes on the homestraight and also caught defending champion Jose Luiz Barbosa with 80m remaining. Ereng provided the highlight of the event along with Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor who had a first-time clearance over 2.43 to claim gold and a new world indoor record with the same height as the world record outdoors, adding one centimetre to the previous mark set by Carlo Thranhardt of GeWRany. The walking race disciplines witnessed again two world bests in the guise of Russia’s Mikhail Shchennikov thanks to a 18:27.10 5000m clocking and Australia’s Kerry Saxby who clocked 12:01 for the women’s 3000m event to become world record holder. Elly Van Hulst of The Netherlands produced a commanding win in the women’s 3000m to break the world record with a 8:33.82 perfoWRance. The Soviet Union dominated the medal table with 13 medals (4/5/4) followed by the USA (4/3/4) and the GeWRan Democratic Republic with 8 (2/2/4).
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