One of the most famous 800 metre finals in  history took place in 1980 where three British runners were meeting, two of them with an excellent chance of winning. The athletes were Steve Ovett and Seb Coe and Dave Warren. Coe was the favourite as he already held the World Record for the 800 metres. Ovett was favourite for the 1500 metres to be run a few days later. The final was a tense affair, with Ovett only in sixth place after one lap. But he managed to force himself through the field to reach second place with about 100 metres left. He then raced into the lead and held off Coe over the last few metres to win the Gold Medal. Coe came second and Dave Warren came 8th. This maths worksheet looks at the final places and times with some tricky questions to follow. Probably the hardest question looks at the average time that Ovett took to run each 100 metres of the race. This requires converting the minutes and seconds into seconds, then dividing by 8. Interestingly the average time he took to run each 100 metres of the race was 13.2 seconds - a time that not many people could achieve over just one 100m race, let alone doing this for 8! Go to 1980 800m worksheet