{"id":38123,"date":"2026-01-25T02:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/josh-hoey-breaks-wilson-kipketers-mens-800m-indoor-world-record-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:05:04","slug":"josh-hoey-breaks-wilson-kipketers-mens-800m-indoor-world-record-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/josh-hoey-breaks-wilson-kipketers-mens-800m-indoor-world-record-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hoey breaks Wilson Kipketer&#8217;s men&#8217;s 800m indoor world record in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">American middle-distance runner Josh Hoey has broken the long-standing men&#8217;s 800m indoor world record by running a blistering time at Saturday&#8217;s Indoor Grand Prix in Boston.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old finished in one minute 42.5 seconds to beat the previous record of 1:42.67 set nearly 29 years ago in March 1997 by Denmark&#8217;s Wilson Kipketer in Paris.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hoey, who won gold in the same event at the World Indoor Championships in 2025, had been closing in on 53-year-old Kipketer&#8217;s record, clocking a 1:43.24, then the second-fastest time in history, in New York last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the race, Hoey said he just tried to stay calm and let his brother Jaxson, who was pace-setter, lead him to victory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/clyzx8xl5qvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American middle-distance runner Josh Hoey has broken the long-standing men&#8217;s 800m indoor world record by running a blistering time at Saturday&#8217;s Indoor Grand Prix in Boston. The 26-year-old finished in one minute 42.5 seconds to beat the previous record of 1:42.67 set nearly 29 years ago in March 1997 by Denmark&#8217;s Wilson Kipketer in Paris. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38125,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38123\/revisions\/38125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}