A new record of Kratochvilova jarmile was shot down »Lilian Odira corrected a 42 -year -old terminal in 800 m.
Article by Roxana Fleşeru, Luminița Paul – published Sunday, September 21, 2025, 15:17 / Updated Sunday, September 21, 2025:41
Lilian Odira (26 years old) was imposed in the 800 m test at the Tokyo World Championships with a time of 1: 54.62, correcting the competition record (1: 54.68) held since 1983 by Jarmila Kratochvilova, an athlete suspected of dopaj and which still holds the world record in this test (53.28).
Lilian Odira, from Kenya, won the gold medal in the 800 m female, with a time of 1: 54.62, lowering the oldest record of the World Championships.
He belonged to the Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova and had been established at the 1983 edition in Helsinki, being 1: 54.68. She also holds the world record of the sample (1: 53,28), established in another competition, also in 1983.
Lilian Odira in action photo Imago Images
It is the second record of the Kratochvilova jarm, which is corrected in Tokyo, after the American Sydney McLauglin-Levrone ran in 47.78, rectifying the competition record belonged to the Czech in 1983 and was 47.99.
Kratochvilova jarmile, suspected of doping
Many world landmarks of female athletics have been fixed in already distant periods, while anti -doping policy almost did not exist. On Czechoslovacea, on the use of forbidden substances or methods were planned.
Kratochvilova in 1983, at 32, at the World Cup Helsinki PHOTO IMAGO
Kratochvilova, an athlete who achieved important results in her career, over 30, has supported her innocence, saying that the hard workouts and high doses of vitamin B12 are the secret behind her performances-arguments viewed by skepticism of a clean sport.
Czechoica did not have any anti -doping control in career, but its physical appearance, visibly modified from 30 years, has attracted attention.
In 1984, seeing her in a Indoor competition in the US, Dr. Leroy Perry, a chiropractor who worked with important American athletes, said for Los Angeles Times that “I have never seen such a body! It seems chemically different in its physiological transformation of the last five years. And I am sure it is not behind the job.”
Lilian Odira attacked at the end of the race
How was the 800 -meter race from Tokyo? The world champion in Titre, Mary Moraa, drove the first round, closely followed by the Keely Hodgkinson Olympic champion. The two began to accelerate 300 meters before the end, but so did Odira, which was behind the platoon.
Moraa began to get tired at the beginning of the straight line. Hodgkinson has fought in the last 100 meters, but Odira has attacked the outside and passed the first line.
Lilian Odira at the end of the Imago Images photo race
Georgia Hunter Bell reached her British teammate just before the finish line, winning the silver with 1: 54.90, in front of Hodgkinson, who finished with 1: 54.91.
