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

With 1:57.43 in Boston the 25-year-old offers 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 greatest outdoor was 1:59.30. But she stormed to 1:57.43 on the John Thomas Terrier Traditional at Boston College on Friday (Jan 30) to provide the British breakthrough efficiency of 2026 thus far.

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

Boffey received 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 instances additionally noticed British runner Katie Snowden excel as she received 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 received the European under-18 crown adopted by the under-20 title in Boras in 2019. Then, in 2021, she received the European under-23 gold in Tallinn.

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

„Issues have been going so nicely 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 instances I have been hitting then it isn’t as a lot of a shock.

„I used to be actually hoping this yr can be an enormous 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 obtained extra confidence occurring to the world stage and need to go to some Diamond Leagues this yr and become involved with the very best of the very best and show to myself and everybody that I could 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 dwelling turf of Birmingham.