Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE

Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE, often known as Seb Coe, is an English former athlete and politician.

Seb Coe is considered one of the greatest middle-distance runners of all time. He won the British 1,500 metres title at both Youth and Junior level. His first major international championship success came when he won the 1977 European indoor 800 metres title at Dortmund with a new British indoor record of 1:47.6 seconds.

He twice improved the record and later in 1977 headed the British outdoor record, clocking 1:44.95 at Crystal Palace in September. In 1978, Coe brought the British 800 metres record down to 1:44.25 seconds in August before making a further improvement the following month with a run of 1:43.97.

Over 42 days in July and August 1979, Coe posted new world records for the 800 metres, 1,500 metres and 1 mile. In 1980 he took over as the world record holder at 1,000 metres and in 1981 he improved his own world records at 800 metres and 1,000 metres before twice improving his own record for the mile.

His only world record in 1982 came when he contributed a 1:44.01 second leg on Britain's 4×800 metre relay team; the following year he posted world indoor records at 800 metres and 1,000 metres. In all, Seb Coe set nine world records outdoors and three indoors, enough to ensure his place as one of the legends in the sport.

He is also the only man in modern times to have won the Olympic 1,500 metres title twice and his victory in 1980 when he came back from losing the 800 metres, for which he was an overwhelming favorite, was testament to his moral fortitude. In addition to all his Olympic gold medals at 1,500 metres in 1980 and 1984, he finished second in the 800 metres at both of these Games. He also won over 800 metres at the European and World Cup in 1981 and the European Championships in 1986.

Personal Bests: Outdoor

• 400 – 46.87 (1979); 01/01/1979
• 800 – 1:41.73 (1981); Firenze - 10/06/1981
• 1000 – 2:12.18 (1981); Oslo - 11/07/1981
• 1500 – 3:29.77 (1986); Rieti 07/09/1986
• Mile – 3:47.33 (1981); Bruxelles 28/08/1981
• 2000 – 4:58.84 (1982);
• 3000 – 7:54.32 (1979); 01/01/1980
• 5000 – 14:06.2 (1980). 01/01/1980

Personal Bests: Indoor

• 800 Metres - 1:44.91 - Cosford, 12/03/1983
• 3000 Metres - 7:54.32, 01/01/1986
• 50 stunning Olympic moments No23: Coe v Ovett, Moscow 1980

"On 25 March 1972 a boy called Kirk Dumpleton emerged from the pack to win the Intermediate Boys' Race at the English Schools Cross-Country Championships in Hillingdon. Twenty seconds later a tall Brightonian with an unkempt mop of hair crossed the line in second place, a 16-year-old by the name of Stephen Michael James Ovett. Farther back, in 10th, was a 15-year-old from Sheffield called Sebastian Newbold Coe. For two of these three boys, though they barely knew each other's names at the time, this was the start of one of sport's great rivalries. Dumpleton, now assistant head of a secondary school in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, was not one of them".

Sebastian Coe - Race Career Highlights 1976 - 1989

You Tube - Some of Sebastian Coe's race career highlights from Gateshead in 1976 to Barcelona in 1989. Action highlights of a BBC interview first broadcasted during the Commonwealth Games in Auckland NZ in 1990. Narrator - Brendan Foster. Commentators - David Coleman & Ron Pickering.

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Coe.
• http://www.answers.com/topic/coe-sebastian
• http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/sebastian-coe-...

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Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, CH, KBE, FRIBA (born 29 September 1956), often referred to as Seb Coe or Lord Coe, is a British politician and former track and field athlete. As a middle-distance runner, Lord Coe won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984. He set eight outdoor and three indoor world records in middle-distance track events – including, in 1979, setting three world records in the space of 41 days – and the world record he set in the 800 metres in 1981 remained unbroken until 1997. Coe's rivalries with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram dominated middle-distance racing for much of the 1980s. Following Coe's retirement from athletics, he was a member of parliament for the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1997 for Falmouth and Camborne in Cornwall, and became a Life Peer on 16 May 2000. He headed the successful London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and became chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), and re-elected for another four-year term in 2011. In August 2015 he was elected president of the IAAF. In 2012, Coe was appointed Pro-Chancellor at Loughborough University where he had been an undergraduate, and is also a member of the University's governing body. In November 2012 he was appointed chair of the British Olympic Association. In 2012 he was one of 24 athletes inducted as inaugural members of the IAAF Hall of Fame. Coe was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in December 2012. In March 2017, Coe was named Chancellor at Loughborough University, replacing Nigel Rudd and becoming the University's sixth Chancellor.

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