Peter Bol, the previous Australian record holder, is said to be 'thrilled' his training partner Joseph Deng has set a new benchmark.
Joseph Deng clocked one minute 43.99 seconds, beating Peter Bol's benchmark.Joseph Deng has broken the Australian record for the 800 metres.
Deng has clocked one minute 43.99 seconds at a meet in Lyon, France, overnight, shaving 0.01s from Peter Bol's benchmark. The 25-year-old Deng is a training partner of Bol, who was thrilled to watch the bettering of his record.The 25-year-old Joseph Deng is a training partner of Peter Bol , who was thrilled to watch the bettering of his benchmark."Pete was thrilled that Joe beat his record, Pete was absolutely beside himself," Templeton told the Nine Network."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.
Bol then raced the 1,500m and recorded a personal best time of 3:34.52, with rising Australian Cameron Myers finishing third in 3:35.01, a national under-18 and under-20 record. Joseph Deng and Peter Bol of Australia running in the men's 800m race at the 2018 Diamond League athletics meet in Monaco. It was here that Deng set a new Australian 800m record that would later be beaten by Bol.Deng was born in a Kenyan refugee camp in 1998 after his mother fled the brutal civil war in Sudan.at the Diamond League athletics meet in Monaco, finishing seventh in one minute 44.21 seconds.when he finished a qualifying heat in one minute 44.
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