Rudisha Breaks World Record - Men's 800m Final | London 2012 Olympics

Full highlights as Kenya's David Rudisha wins Gold in the Men's 800m Final and breaks the World Record with a time of 1.40.91 at London's Olympic Stadium.

Since 1896, athletics has been on the programme of each edition of the Games of the Olympiad. Its presence on the Games programme has allowed its popularity to increase across the world. This popularity was also strengthened by the creation of the IAAF in 1912. Women's events appeared for the first time at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, while the men's programme was standardised as of the 1932 Games in Los Angeles. Although at the beginning women were authorised to participate in only some events, today their programme is almost identical to that of the men.

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[papillonvu]

This might be the greatest race ever run, when you look at the individual performances of each runner:
There was a World Record, a World Junior Record, 3 National Records, 7 Personal Bests, and 1 Season Best set in this race!!

Now in Nov 2019, the World Record and Junior World Record still stand, and 7 of the 8 men who ran that final, never ran faster again! Historic!

[Reubenwelsh]

A small note on just how fast everyone was in this race.

8th postion in this race was a whole second faster than the gold medal time in the tokyo 2020 olympics!

[dragomck]

Imagine running 1:43.77 and getting last...the depth of the field in this race as well as Rudisha pulling everyone along to extremely fast times... crazy

[daviduzo]

To note how insane this race was, last position time of 1:43:77 would have won gold at Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2008, Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000.

[davidfernandez]

This man has the most beautiful running style Ive ever seen.

[brendanleone]

Am I the only one who comes back like once a week to watch this?

[bryantcullen]

Just my opinion…the greatest race in history. Every single athlete went out at 100% for the full 800. This is what an Olympic race should look like.

[bruitdefond]

Not only did he break the 800m WR he was 1.3 seconds away from breaking the 600m world record. Just a mind boggling performance

[aarontewelde]

Not only is Rudisha a beast but he also has such a poetic stride

[johnboyle]

Nick Symmonds threw in 10-15 sticks of run gum for that last 100m

[milcahmisoi]

2024 still watching how rudisha run ❤ 🇰🇪 🇰🇪

[OfentseMwaseFilms]

If that isn’t the Best Running form in Athletics then I don’t know! 🙌🏽

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

His running style is so technically perfect and smooth that he doesn't look like he's running, he looks like he's floating.

[BrooklynTre]

If I ever run a 1:43 in the 800m, and come last, I'm killing everybody!

[theunknown]

He looks like he is chilling while running 49sec 400m. What a beast of a stride. Absolutely insane.

[tywonellington]

His stride should be on display in every museum. He looks just as smooth in the last three steps as the first three.

[snehalnayan]

The fact that the top 3 broke the previous Olympic Record makes this race even more historic

[muham]

The fact that the last place finisher was under 1:44 showed how fast this race really was. Amazing.

[LennieNelson]

There aren't enough superlatives to describe this race. I saw it live at age 15 and i've come back to watch it every year since. Simply put, there will never be a human better designed to race two laps around the track than Rudisha. It's an event where most of the records have had pacemakers, and the second lap usually a second or two slower. But he ran it wire to wire without anyone in sight and with nearly identical laps. Partially because of this race I became an 800 runner, and although I never broke 2 minutes, I loved it. It truly is an event for the masochists. You run just about as hard as you can...and then you still have to do another lap. You tie up in the last 150m and your legs feel like they're being crushed 5 miles beneath sea level and simultaneously being roasted inside the sun. If you're doing it correctly, you see double and your lungs feel like they're bleeding. When you get it wrong, you can barely move in the finishing straight and everyone passes you. Rudisha ran the absolute perfect half mile race anyone will ever do and he looked completely effortless. I'm not religious but watching this makes me believe in something!

[kelvinotieno]

10 years on and I still keep coming back to this race.