iBorn 9 Oct 1955
Steve Ovett was the great tactical racer of British middle-distance running, comfortable in rough, physical races and lethal from 200 m out. He went 45 races unbeaten at 1500 m and the mile between 1977 and 1980, and at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 he won the 800 m, the event his rival Sebastian Coe…