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Kenya's 20-year-old Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi delivered a standout performance at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Thursday, where he clocked a blistering 1:41.11 in the men's 800m.
This remarkable time catapulted Wanyonyi to joint second on the world all-time list, just 0.20 seconds shy of the world record of 1:40.91 set by his fellow Kenyan and role model, David Rudisha, at the London 2012 Olympics.
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