Sebastian Coe says Jake Wightman has the chance to become Britain’s most successful ever middle-distance runner.
He believes he can also pave the way for the greatest generation of British track talent since the 1980s.
Coe, president of World Athletics, won back-to-back Olympic titles at 1500 metres and set a dozen world records. But so impressed was he by the way Wightman crowned himself world champion over the same distance that he declared the 28-year old had an opportunity to tread new ground.
