Description
This is a high quality DVD which contains many historic Sebastian Coe races. Each race is divided into chapters for easy navigation.
See Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett go on a world record spree setting the mile world record back and forth.
You'll also see Sebastian Coe's awesome movie "Born to Run" which highlights his career and focuses on the training that he did during his stay as one of the world's greatest milers.
Here is a list of what you'll get:
1979 Oslo - 800m: Sebastian Coe 1:42.33 setting new WR and is the first man under 1:43...50.6-51.8 splits (quality litte scratchy/shaky)
1979 Bislett Games - Mile: Coe and Scott go after it together. Sebastian Coe powers away again (he's sooo smooth) for a 3:48.95 WR with American Steve Scott running 3:51.11 for 2nd (Good quality)
1979 Zurich - 1500m: Coe goes after the 1500 WR and gets it running 3:32.03. That breaks Bayi's mark and gives Coe the mile, 1500, and 800 WR's in just 41 days!!!! (Excellent quality)
1980 Moscow Olympic Games – 800m: Coe and Ovett go after it again in this tactical race. Coe gets boxed in and can’t make a move until about 200 to go and it’s a big move but Ovett holds him off for the Gold, Coe gets Silver. (Excellent quality)
1980 Moscow Olympic Games – 1500m: Coe and Ovett battle for the second time and this time Coe powers away for the Gold in 3:38.6. Ovett gets silver. (Good quality)
1981 Florence - 800m: Sebastian Coe blasts another huge move and runs 1:41.73 setting a new WR. (Good quality)
1981 Zurich - Mile: Sebastian Coe finishes with a 3:48.53 WR with a huge kick last 300m. (Great quality)
1981 Koblenz - Mile: Steve Ovett challenges Coe's WR and runs 3:48.40 beating it just 7 days after Coe ran his 3:48.53. (Great quality)
1981 Brussels - Mile: Sebastian Coe comes back and runs 3:47.33 setting a new WR less than 48 hrs after Ovett's 3:48.40...55.3 last 400. (Great quality)
1982 Oslo – Mile: Steve Scott runs the second fastest time ever and sets an American record that still stands today. Awesome race. Great interview at the end with Scott. (Good quality)
Born to Run - Sebastian Coe discusses his training and covers many of his races.
In 1979, Sebastian Coe set three World Records in the space of just 41 days. First he smashed 1976 double Olympic champion Alberto Juantorena's 800m. record by over one second. Next he lowered the 1976 Olympic 1500m. champion John Walker's one mile record by four tenths of a second and finally he shaved a tenth of a second off Filbert Bayi's 1974 1500m record with 3m 32.1 secs. He was 22 years of age and offically became the first man to hold all three of these World records at the same time, although in fairness, the American Jim Ryan held the half mile, 1500m. and one mile records simultaneously. It all took off at the famous Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, with the 800m. record of 1min. 42.33sec. where Seb won by 25 metres. He covered the opening 400m. in 50.6sec. followed by a 51.8sec. lap. Of his performance John Walker said, "The way he ran was just unbelievable". Twelve days later he was back at the Bislett Stadium for the IAAF Dubai "Golden Mile" up against a star-studded field, in which, on paper, he was the slowest competitor! He had not run a 1500m./mile since 1977. At the bell Coe was in the lead, a 58sec. third lap left his closest challenger Steve Scott (USA) floundering and the vociferous Bislett crowd were playing their part. Seb crossed the line in 3m 48.95sec but in accordance with the rules his time was rounded up to 3min. 49.00sec. "I was astonished when I was told I had broken the world record", he said afterwards. The third record, the 1500m. fell to him in Zurich, only on this occasion Coe, the supposed 800m. runner, was the favorite. The pace-maker was poor and Seb found himself in the lead by the 800m. mark (1min. 53.2sec.). Afterwards he said "It was a long run for home, it was tough but the deafening enthusiasm of the crowd was fantastic."
According to the bookmakers Seb Coe would become the 1980 Olympic 800m. champion with Steve Ovett taking the 1500m. gold. Coe was the world's fastest man ever over two laps (he himself said he went "to win the 800m.") whereas Ovett had just equalled the world 1500m. record and smashed the world 1 mile record (3min. 48.8 sec). The odds of either doing the "double", however, were such that there were no safe predictions, as events proved. But for Coe to finish second to Ovett in a time just under 1min. 46sec. was a major surprise, Seb was after all the world's only sub-1min. 43sec. performer. Such a surprise that the question being asked was: is Coe a 'winner' at the ultimate level? It was a silly question in hindsight ! Unlike the 800m final, in which Seb got bumped and boxed, the 1500m. was just as he might have wished. The East German Jurgen Straub did all the hard work (rewarded with the silver medal) and Seb was able to run a race more to his liking - less physical. His reaction to victory is for ever recorded by photographs like the one above, although his winning time of 3min. 38.4 sec. was unremarkable (Ovett had run 3min. 36.8sec. in the first round). But the Olympics for the great athletes is about winning (for lesser mortals it is about taking part) and the victory confirmed he was now well on the way to becoming an all-time great of middle distance running. Even so it was six years before Seb finally won an 800m. title of importance (1986 European) and he never regained his 1500m. world record, though he broke the 3min. 30sec. barrier - also in 1986. He did, of course, achieve something of historic significance in Los Angeles in 1984 but that, as they say, is another story.
Now the Olympic 1500m. champion, he ran yet another stunning 800m, on this occasion in Florence, where he reduced the record by half a second to 1min 41.72sec. on June 10th. He thus became the first man to break the 1min. 42sec. barrier as well as the first to break 1min. 43sec. By the close of the 20th C. the 1min. 41sec. barrier was still intact. Two months later, on the 19th of August 1981, he was again in world record-breaking form but this time it was to be four laps of the track- the classic one mile. The place was Zurich, the venue of his sole 1500m. World record and it was Steve Ovett's record he was after. He duly broke the record, shaving three tenths of a second from his rival's time, only to lose it one week later again to Steve! Not to be outdone Seb travelled to Brussels on August 28th to compete in the "Golden Mile" determined to regain the record he had set only nine days earlier. He was not to be disappointed, destroying the high class field with a new time of 3min. 47.33sec. - the first ever sub 3min. 48sec. - and a time neither Steve nor Seb ever bettered. It was in fact another Steve (Cram) who beat it in 1985.
I'm always nervous about buying anything online from a faceless person... but you wouldn't happen to be in the SF Bay Area would you? That DVD sounds great.
how long is the DVD?
Relax...it's just a cheap DVD - not like it's a car or something. I bet you probably don't go out after dark either?
Not when there are big tough guys like you out there wandering the streets.
Nope... wrote:
Not when there are big tough guys like you out there wandering the streets.
Bahahaha.
You can read my previous feedback in the link, upper right corner.
He's been flawless in the last year.
This DVD contains the following seven (7) world records set by Seb Coe from 1979 - 1981 + the 1980 Moscow Olympics:
1)1:42.33 800m
2)3:48.95 Mile
3)3:32.03 1500m
4)1:41.73 800m
5)3:48.53 Mile
6)3:48.40 Mile
7)3:47.33 Mile
No 1,000 record? That's maybe the second-best record he ever set.
Although not world records, the 1980 Moscow Olympic races are quite incredible.
I never bought something from ebay before. Is there a set price for this DVD or are people actually bidding? Also, what other DVD's do you have?
That's real funny if the guy who made this DVD just ripped off the races that trackhead put together.
Cheap runners.
Out.
if you have never seen them, florence and oslo are worth the price in themselves.
Fixed price is $15, no bidding. You can check other items though a link in the upper right corner. They include 1972 Munich 5K/10K (Viren's first double gold, and defeat of Pre), Lasse Viren documentary "Running is Your Life," and 1997 Grand Prix where Paul Tergat, Daniel Komen and Haile Gebrsellassie lower the 5K and 10K world records significantly.
Do you have Seb Coe's 1000m record?
Or the 4x800m British A team world record?
Wow! Sounds like a great DVD! I just bought one!