1. Residential Customers
  2. Business Customers
  3. About Swisscom
  4. blue News
  1. My Swisscom
  3. myAI
  4. myCloud
  5. TV
  6. Phone book
EN
Weather
  1. blue News
  1. Entertainment
  1. Sport
Swisscom Services
  1. Phone Book
  3. Web TV
  4. My Swisscom
Swisscom Apps
  1. Swisscom blue News & E-Mail
  2. Swisscom blue TV
  3. Swisscom blue Cinema
  4. Swisscom myAI
  5. Swisscom myCloud
Language
  1. English
  2. Deutsch
  3. Français
  4. Italiano

1:42.50 minutes Josh Hoey takes 800 m world record as satisfaction

SDA

24.1.2026 - 22:55

Josh Hoey triumphed in the rain at the Athletissima in Lausanne in the summer of 2025. Now he is the world indoor record holder in the 800 m
Josh Hoey triumphed in the rain at the Athletissima in Lausanne in the summer of 2025. Now he is the world indoor record holder in the 800 m
Keystone

The American Josh Hoey broke the world record in the 800 m indoor race with a time of 1:42.50 minutes in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday.

Keystone-SDA

24.01.2026, 22:55

24.01.2026, 23:00

The 26-year-old, winner of last summer's Athletissima, beat the historic record of 1:42.67 set by Wilson Kipketer of Denmark in Paris in 1997. Perfectly guided by a pacemaker and supported by the light signal of the "Wavelight" at the edge of the track, Hoey never gave in and obliterated the 29-year-old record.

The 2025 world indoor 800m champion is thus relaunching his career after missing the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo because he failed the trials.

More from the department

Last preliminary round match. Swiss women lose 3:1 to Finland

Last preliminary round matchSwiss women lose 3:1 to Finland

Tears instead of medals. How bitter the Olympic day was for Switzerland

Tears instead of medalsHow bitter the Olympic day was for Switzerland

After Olympic bronze. Biathlete Laegreid confesses in tears: I cheated on my girlfriend

After Olympic bronzeBiathlete Laegreid confesses in tears: I cheated on my girlfriend