Prudence Sekgodiso equalled the South African women’s indoor 800m record that she’d set a week earlier when finishing second in the event at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Lievin, France on Thursday.
The rising South African star clocked an identical 1min 59.88sec that she had achieved at the INIT Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe – a World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Germany, last Friday.
In France she followed World indoor champion Tsige Duguma home, the Ethiopian taking victory in 1:59.02.
Sekgodiso has been in scintiullating early season form. She has twice broken the South African indoor national record again, and last week clocked that 1:59.88 to win only her second-ever indoor 800m race, after debuting at the World Indoor Tour Gold event in Belgrade, the Olympic finalist achieved a sub-two-minute time, just 0.01 seconds shy of the world-leading time. In doing so she became the first South African woman to dip under two minutes indoors.
Dogma has now raised the world-leading time for 2025 to 1:59.02.
Two world records – from Norway’s Jakob Ingebritsen – fell at the meeting and eight other world-leading marks were set throughout a high-quality evening of athletics.
South Africa’s other athlete on Thursday night in Lievin was Tshepo Tshite. He competed in the men’s mile – where Ingebrigtsen won on 3:45.14 – and came home in fifth spot, timing 3:54.10.
