Talk:Steve Ovett

Better winner Sebastian Coe?
tba — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.212.205 (talk) 17:40, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No idea what this means. d a n n o  18:16, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

number of world records
the claim that Steve Ovett "set more world records at 1500m or the mile than any other athlete in history," is not true. Steve Ovett set two world records at the mile (3:48.8 on 1 July 1980, 3:48.4 on 26 Aug 1981) and three world records at 1500m (3:32.1 on 15 Jul 1980, 3:31.36 on 27 Aug 1980, 3:30.77 on 4 Sep 1983). but Gunder Hägg (SWE) set six, three at 1500m (3:47.6 on 10 Aug 1941, 3:45.8 on 17 Jul 1942, 3:43.0 on 7 Jul 1944) and three at the mile (4:06.2 on 1 Jul 1942, 4:04.6 on 4 Sep 1942, 4:01.4 on 17 Jul 1945). Cottonshirt  τ   11:15, 10 November 2019 (UTC)