Steve Ovett

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 was expected to win, before taking bronze in the 1500 m.