Earl Fee, the Canadian hurdle/middle-distances legend, put another notch in his belt at Budapest — an M85 world indoor record for 800 meters. His time of 3:11.09 Friday crushed the listed WR of 3:30.95 by Sweden’s Holger Joseffson in 2004. Earl turned 85 only days before the meet, and basically ran alone in his age group, beating silver-medalist Marcos Bermejo of Spain by nearly 32 seconds. Alice Cole, moving up from the 400, ran 3:39.51 in W80 — beating the listed WR of 3:47.53 by Germany’s Melitta Czerwenka-Nagel in 2011. Alice also turned back fellow Canadian Helly Visser (four WRs this season). And in W50, both Clare Elms (2:21.27) and Zofia Wieciorkowska (2:23.56) dipped under the listed WR of 2:24.49 by Spain’s Aurora Perez in 2009. Perhaps the most gutsy performance in the 800s may have been by American Sid Howard, running with a brace. He broke his wrist six weeks before worlds, and still took second in M75. Robert Jerome, who again supplied these great shots, wrote: “Sid Howard led the pack all the way in M75 but was edged out in the last couple of meters to win silver.” Sid’s time of 2:53.29 was less than 10 seconds off the listed American record (2:44.24). On Feb. 15, Sid posted on Facebook: “What a bad break!! I’m scheduled to run at the Nationals .. and World Championship in Budapest next month. This morning walking in Central Park heading to the NYRR to coach the Team for Kids runners who are training for the NYC half marathon I slip on ice & broke my wrist. I don’t know how but with God will I’ll compete.”

Other amazing marks were posted by Britain’s Anthony Whiteman (1:52.60 in M40) and American Nick Berra (1:59.36 in M45). Riet Jonkers-Slegers of Netherlands missed the W70 WR by two-tenths with her 3:02.02.

Ireland’s WR-holder Joe Gough upset Nolan Shaheed in the M60 race: 2:15.08 to 2:16.18. But Nolan turns 65 in mid-July, so what an effort against the 61-year-old kid!

Here are selected 800 results from Budapest:

2014 WMA World Indoor Championships – 2014.03.25. to 2014.03.30
Budapest, Hungary

Event 258 M85 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Fee, Earl M85 Canada 3:11,09
2 Bermejo, Marcos M85 Spain 3:42,92
3 Leovic, Rad M86 Australia 4:00,62
4 Canelo, Jose M89 Portugal 4:04,44
5 Chatziemmanouil, Konstan M85 Greece 4:08,05
6 Maas, Eckart M85 Germany 4:17,89
7 Radu, Dumitru M87 Romania 6:06,24

Event 39 W50 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Elms, Clare W50 Great Britai 2:21,27
2 Wieciorkowska, Zofia W51 Poland 2:23,56
3 Jasper, Lorraine W52 United State 2:25,95
4 Hillewaere, Nele W50 Belgium 2:27,67
5 Wahlstedt, Karin W53 Sweden 2:29,45
6 Brooks, Karen W54 Great Britai 2:31,23
7 Dixon, Donna W51 Canada 2:33,07
8 Jerosch, Maria Katharina W52 Germany 2:49,14

Event 256 M75 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Newcombe, John Raymond M75 Great Britai 2:52,60
2 Howard, Sidney M75 United State 2:53,29
3 Alonso, Manuel M78 Spain 2:54,71
4 Stewart, Mack M76 United State 2:57,40
5 Cano, Angel M78 Spain 2:58,62
6 Vantours, Bernard M75 France 3:02,21
7 Ivan, Skvortsov M76 Russia 3:04,71
8 Pace, Maurizio M75 Italy 3:06,14
— Savenkov, Yury M75 Russia DNF

Event 249 M40 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Whiteman, Anthony M42 Great Britai 1:52,60
2 Aragon, Raul M40 Spain 1:56,22
3 Toal, Mike M42 Great Britai 1:57,19
4 Scott, Richard M40 Great Britai 1:57,92
5 Williams, Mark M41 United State 1:58,05
6 Paiutto, Paulo M41 Brazil 1:58,63
7 Mircea Mihael, Alexandre M41 Romania 2:00,68
8 Seiringer, August M43 Austria 2:01,04
9 Rosengren, Jonas M41 Sweden 2:06,45

Event 45 W80 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Cole, Alice W80 Canada 3:39,51
2 Visser, Helly W80 Canada 3:51,11
3 Czerwenka-Nagel, Melitta W83 Germany 3:54,45
4 Crippa, Claudine W82 France 4:19,36
5 Helfenstein, Ruth W82 Switzerland 4:30,90

Event 45 W85 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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1 Angelis, Ruth W86 Germany 7:14,48

Event 250 M45 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Berra, Nicholas M45 United State 1:59,36
2 Rosello, Joaquin M45 Spain 2:01,70
3 Haines, Adrian M46 Great Britai 2:02,44
4 Carayon, Frederic M45 France 2:03,84
5 Bodenmuller, Klaus M45 Germany 2:04,14
6 van Gils, Marc M46 Netherlands 2:05,50
7 Ronald, Andrew M46 Great Britai 2:06,89
8 D’Agostino, Francesco M48 Italy 2:08,17
9 Pohl, Ulrich M47 Germany 2:08,54

Event 253 M60 800 Meter Run
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Name Age Team Finals
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Finals
1 Gough, Joe M61 Ireland 2:15,08
2 Shaheed, Nolan M64 United State 2:16,18
3 Martel, Francois M60 Canada 2:18,98
4 Rentsch, Walter M60 Germany 2:19,79
5 Dunlop, Alastair M60 Great Britai 2:21,15
6 Herinckx, Josse M61 Belgium 2:21,24
7 Finielli, Giovanni M63 Italy 2:21,37
8 Sato, Ryuichi M60 Japan 2:22,49
9 Schmidt, Franz Josef M62 Germany 2:22,58

Have I missed any other world records at Budapest? Please post a comment.