{"id":314845,"date":"2023-07-09T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314845"},"modified":"2023-07-09T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T16:58:57","slug":"beautiful-moment-follows-aussies-phenomenal-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314845","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful moment follows Aussie's phenomenal feat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian middle-distance star Joseph Deng broke a national record with a sizzling run in France on Saturday night \u2014 and a heartmelting moment with training buddy and dear friend Peter Bol<\/a> followed.<\/p>\n

Five years after taking hold of the Australian men's 800-metre record when he posted 1:44.21 in Monaco, Deng unleashed a 1:43.99 to again become the national record-holder.<\/p>\n

He pinched the record from Bol, who had held it since capturing the unbridled love of Australia in three mesmerising runs at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In Lyon on Saturday night, Bol was warming up for a 1500-metre race at the top of the home straight as Deng whizzed past him, blitzed the closing stages and stopped the clock 0.01 of a second inside his great mate's benchmark.<\/p>\n

When Bol found out that Deng had eclipsed his record, he could not have been more ecstatic.<\/p>\n

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There's probably no person better placed to describe the beautiful moment shared by Deng and Bol than the man who manages the two athletes, leading Australian athletics agent James Templeton.\ufeff<\/p>\n

He was watching the race with Bol and was in the thick of the euphoria.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Pete was thrilled that Joe beat his record, Pete was absolutely beside himself," Templeton told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"We were at the 100-metre mark screaming at him with about 100 metres to go.<\/p>\n

"The funny thing was when Joe went across the line it was 1:44.02, and Pete and I were jumping up and down, Pete was jumping up and down, and then within 10 seconds they adjusted it to 1:43.99, and Pete was jumping up and down even more. He was absolutely rapt, he was beside himself."<\/p>\n

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Bol dashed to the other end of the track to embrace his mate.<\/p>\n

Some 20 minutes later, he put his game face on and ran a 1500-metre personal best, punching out a 3:34.52.<\/p>\n

Deng's phenomenal run nailed the Paris Olympics entry standard just over a week after the qualifying window opened.<\/p>\n

In the French city of Strasbourg almost a month earlier, he'd chalked up a 1:44.48 to run a world championships qualifier.<\/p>\n

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In Lyon on Saturday night, Deng hammered along behind a pacemaker for 600 metres.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the run made for\ufeff one helluva sight \u2014 Deng, a day after turning 25, tilting back his head, pumping his arms and driving his long, lean legs as a pack of seven other flat-out runners trailed some 15 metres behind.<\/p>\n

"It was a fantastic race," Templeton said.<\/p>\n

"You could tell from the very first 100 metres that he was on it, that he was out after a time.<\/p>\n

"There was daylight behind him after \ufeff200 metres, by 400 metres he's all over the pacemaker, he wasn't drifting on the second lap up the back straight.<\/p>\n

"He was just on it.<\/p>\n

"It was a great race, a great effort.<\/p>\n

"He battled away up the straight to hold onto a time and he was rewarded with the national record.<\/p>\n

"It was just awesome."<\/p>\n

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Australian middle-distance star Joseph Deng broke a national record with a sizzling run in France on Saturday night \u2014 and a heartmelting moment with training […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314857,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314845\/revisions\/314857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/314850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}