{"id":228748,"date":"2026-02-15T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/u-s-teen-lutkenhaus-breaks-world-junior-indoor-800m-record\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:44:16","slug":"u-s-teen-lutkenhaus-breaks-world-junior-indoor-800m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/u-s-teen-lutkenhaus-breaks-world-junior-indoor-800m-record\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. teen Lutkenhaus breaks world junior indoor 800m record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American athletics prodigy Cooper Lutkenhaus broke the world junior indoor 800-meters record on Saturday (February 15, 2026) with a victory in 1min 44.03secs at the Sound Running meet in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old Texan won the invitational event by 0.70 of a second over Penn State\u2019s Handal Roban to become the sixth-fastest athlete indoors in 800m history.<\/p>\n

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Lutkenhaus erased the under-20 world record of 1:44.35 set in January 2000 by Russian Yuriy Borzakovskiy, who won 800m Olympic gold in 2004 at Athens.<\/p>\n

Lutkenhaus was a stunning runner-up at last year\u2019s American championships at Eugene, Oregon, to earn a berth in the 2025 World Championships at Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Also in the Winston-Salem meet, Paris Olympic 1,500m champion Cole Hocker won the mile in 3:45.94 with fellow American Cooper Teare second in 3:50.49.<\/p>\n

Hocker clocked the second-fastest world indoor mile time in history behind the world record of 3:45.14 set by Norway\u2019s Jakob Ingebrigtsen last February in France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Published – February 16, 2026 05:14 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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