Last Thursday marked the 31st birthday of Russia’s 2004 Olympic Games 800m champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy and he used the occasion to announce that he will be bidding to win over two laps of the track at this summer’s European Athletics Championships. [Read more…]
The 800m event 2003
December 28, 2003 By Leave a Comment
2003 saw the World Championships in Paris as the ‘premiere’ event of the season. This event in itself produced a massive shock when the much unheralded Saïd-Guerni Djabir of Algeria, blasted past Yuriy Borzakovskiy, the highly fancied Russian, to take top spot. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi of South Africa grabbed 3rd ahead of the World Record Holder, Wilson Kipketer of Denmark. [Read more…]