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American athletics prodigy Cooper Lutkenhaus broke the satellite inferior indoor 800-meters grounds connected Saturday (February 15, 2026) with a triumph successful 1min 44.03secs astatine the Sound Running conscionable successful Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The 17-year-old Texan won the invitational lawsuit by 0.70 of a 2nd implicit Penn State’s Handal Roban to go the sixth-fastest jock indoors successful 800m history.
Lutkenhaus erased the under-20 satellite grounds of 1:44.35 acceptable successful January 2000 by Russian Yuriy Borzakovskiy, who won 800m Olympic golden successful 2004 astatine Athens.
Lutkenhaus was a stunning runner-up astatine past year’s American championships astatine Eugene, Oregon, to gain a berth successful the 2025 World Championships astatine Tokyo.
Also successful the Winston-Salem meet, Paris Olympic 1,500m champion Cole Hocker won the mile successful 3:45.94 with chap American Cooper Teare 2nd successful 3:50.49.
Hocker clocked the second-fastest satellite indoor mile clip successful past down the satellite grounds of 3:45.14 acceptable by Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen past February successful France.
