Athletics Gallery

Coe, Cram and Ovett race for Great Britain in the 1980 Olympic 1500m Final

Athletics - 1980 Moscow Olympics - Men's 1500 metres Final
Jurgen Straub (338) of East Germany leads from Great Britain's Steve Ovett (279), Sebastian Coe (254), and Steve Cram, with East Germany's Andreas Busse (296) far left, in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow, USSR.
Coe would win the gold, with Straub second and Ovett third. Busse finished fourth and Cram eighth

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Sebastian Coe - 1984 1500m Olympic Champion

Athletics - 1984 Los Angeles Olympics - Men's 1500m Final
Sebastian Coe points to the press, who had expressed doubts about his ability leading into the games, after winning the race in a new Olympic record in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Coe was the first man to defend the Olympic 1500m title

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The mens 100m final at the 1972 Munich Olympics

Athletics - 1972 Munich Olympics - Men's 100m Final
The race in progress in the Olympiastadion, Munich, West Germany. From right to left: Poland's Zenon Nowosz, the USSR's Valeriy Borzov, Trinidad and Tobago's Hasely Crawford, the USA's Robert Taylor, Jamaica's Lennox Miller, and the USSR's Aleksandr Kornelyuk.
Borzov won the gold, Taylor the silver and Miller the bronze.
Three days later Borzov won gold in the 200m final, his favoured event, and became the first non-American since 1928 to complete the sprint double

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