{"id":122044,"date":"2026-08-11T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=122044"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:33:53","slug":"eloisa-coiro-abbatte-dopo-46-anni-il-record-degli-800-di-gabriella-dorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/eloisa-coiro-abbatte-dopo-46-anni-il-record-degli-800-di-gabriella-dorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloisa Coiro breaks Gabriella Dorio&#039;s 800m record after 46 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">BIRMINGHAM \u2013 Whatever the outcome of the women&#039;s 800m final at the <\/span><span class=\"s2\">European Championships in Birmingham<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Eloisa Coiro, who qualified for the event by finishing second in her heat, wrote a historic page in Italian athletics by beating a record that had stood for 46 years and belonged to Gabriella Dorio. The time result of <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Coiro <\/span><span class=\"s1\">It was 1:57.56, a tenth less than Gabriella Dorio&#039;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 in second place, hot on the heels of British Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, who preceded her in 1:57.28. It was the longest-standing Italian women&#039;s record, and so in the space of just over a month, both 800-meter records were broken, following Francesco Pernici&#039;s men&#039;s record (1:43.60 to surpass Marcello Fiasconaro&#039;s after 53 years).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Eloisa <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Coiro <\/span><span class=\"s1\">She had already improved this year with 1:58.42, becoming the second fastest Italian ever. In Birmingham, she excelled with a powerful finish, surpassing Germany&#039;s Smilla Kolbe (1:57.80) and Switzerland&#039;s Veronica Vancardo (1:58.20). August 11th also marked Gabriella Dorio&#039;s Olympic triumph in the 1500m at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Dorio congratulated the new record holder on social media, sharing the image posted on the Atletica Italiana Instagram page: &quot;Well done Eloisa, today, August 11th, is an important day for me! Here&#039;s to the Olympic gold and the 800m record!&quot;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c&quot;Gabriella Dorio has always been an inspiration to me, a great athlete and a fantastic woman. My heart goes out to her,&quot; said the Fiamme Azzurre representative. &quot;She means a lot to me, and I&#039;ve been looking for it for a long time, but today I didn&#039;t watch the pace, so I was completely surprised at the end of the race. I felt great, and now I don&#039;t set any limits. The level is incredibly high in Europe, we need to exploit it. We&#039;re competitive, but we&#039;re very united.&quot;. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM &#8211; Quale che sia l\u2019esito della finale degli 800 metri femminile agli Europei di Birmingham a cui si \u00e8 qualificata giungendo secondo in batteria, Eloisa Coiro ha scritto una pagina storica dell\u2019atletica azzurra battendo un record che resisteva da 46 anni e apparteneva a Gabriella Dorio. Il risultato cronometrico di Coiro \u00e8 stato di [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[2246,1418,1621,2247,2248,1420],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-122044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atletica-leggera","tag-eloisa-coiro","tag-francesco-pernici","tag-g-s-fiamme-azzurre","tag-gabriella-dorio","tag-keely-hodgkinson","tag-marcello-fiasconaro"],"relative_dates":{"created":"2 months ago","modified":"2 months ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"paolopicone","display_name":"Redazione Centrale","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/54de8379a15a6539d41f5cd43c1b6fc220d10161ae5fefcd739b4111632a6a1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Redazione","last_name":"Centrale","user_url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122053,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122044\/revisions\/122053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122044"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=122044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}