Issy Boffey goes No.2 on UK indoor all-time 800m rankings

With 1:57.43 in Boston the 25-year-old provides Keely Hodgkinson’s file a scare and goes No.8 on world all-time rankings.

Till this weekend Issy Boffey hadn’t damaged two minutes indoors for 800m and her finest open air was 1:59.30. But she stormed to 1:57.43 on the John Thomas Terrier Basic at Boston College on Friday (Jan 30) to supply the British breakthrough efficiency of 2026 to this point.

Boffey’s time was solely 1 / 4 of a second outdoors Keely Hodgkinson’s British indoor file of 1:57.18. Her time additionally locations her No.8 on the world all-time rankings.

Boffey gained the race, too, whereas scorching on her heels was Roisin Willis, who set an American indoor file of 1:57.97.

An evening of quick occasions additionally noticed British runner Katie Snowden excel as she gained the ladies’s 3000m in a PB of 8:39.89.

As a younger runner, Boffey accomplished a sweep of European age-group titles at 800m. In Tbilisi in 2018 she gained the European under-18 crown adopted by the under-20 title in Boras in 2019. Then, in 2021, she gained the European under-23 gold in Tallinn.

The Enfield & Haringey athlete went to review biomedical science at Birmingham College and remains to be coached by Birmingham Uni-based Luke Gunn.

“Issues have been going so effectively with my coach and I am in such a cheerful and wholesome place,” she stated.

“I am a bit in shock but when I take a look at the coaching and occasions I have been hitting then it isn’t as a lot of a shock.

“I used to be actually hoping this 12 months could be a giant bounce for me. I have been gunning for a brand new PB for the final couple of years and I knew it was attainable but it surely was a case of going into the race and executing it.

“With this time now I’ve received extra confidence occurring to the world stage and need to go to some Diamond Leagues this 12 months and get entangled with one of the best of one of the best and show to myself and everybody that I may be aggressive.

“The sky is the restrict now. I can take a lot confidence away from this.”

Boffey will now return to the UK to coach forward of the Novuna UK Athletics Indoor Championships the place she’s going to face Hodgkinson on her house turf of Birmingham.