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Aug
BIRMINGHAM – Regardless of the outcome of the women's 800-meter final at the European Championships in Birmingham, for which she qualified by finishing second in her heat, Eloisa Coiro wrote a chapter in Italian athletics history by breaking a 46-year-old record held by Gabriella Dorio. Coiro's time was 1:57.56, one-tenth off Gabriella Dorio's best of 1:57.66, set in Pisa on July 5, 1980. The 25-year-old Roman ran a tactically intelligent race, making up two places on the straight to finish second, hot on the heels of…
