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Published on 2026-01-24 22:19:17
American Josh Hoey clocked 1min 42.50sec to break the 800m indoor world record at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix meeting in Boston on Saturday.
Hoey, the 2025 indoor world champion at 800m, broke the previous mark of 1:42.67 set by Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer in Paris almost 30 years ago, on March 9, 1997.
The 26-year-old American had been closing in on Kipketer’s mark, coming close last year when he clocked 1:43.24, then the second-fastest time in history, in New York.
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