British 800m Eyes World Championship champion Success in Tokyo after a strong and consistent season.
Max Burgin has spent most of the 2025 season running the best in the world and overcoming many of them. The 23 -year -old goes to the World Championship in Tokyo on Tuesday (September 16) as one of the main 800m runners in the circuit, with a better of 1: 42.36 and a growing sense of trust.
Much of that trust, says Burgin, comes from how the event itself has changed in the last two years, particularly because the Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi has changed the way the 800m is run.
“I think you have to prove Wanyonyi for creating thesis races,” says Burgin. “Having a person in that race, who will drag and establish that career, makes those times and drags other times.
“In our event, how Wanyonyi often addresses the championships means that the races go quite eighth. Now that could obviously change. I could change the change and if it is not Toysyyyyyyyyte.
It is a racing style that Burgin has received and adapted. He was right in the mixture in the final of the Diamond League in Zurich, ending only Beind Wanyonyi in second place and prepares for himself that belongs at the top of the event.
“Zurich was the first time this season that I really felt I had an adequate chance to win,” he says. “If things had gone a bit different, I think there could be [won]”
Zurich was one of this year’s strong performances for Burgin, which has finally been able to unite a full year of healthy and consistent careers, something that has long been possible.
“A great season is a bone, in terms of consistency,” he says. “My first since the probable 2018 that I really managed to have a full season and hit almost all the races I wanted.”
This progress comes from any important change in the training approach, he says, but more than the management of long -term injury problems that have interrupted their last years. The Olympic finalist was forced to retire from the 2022 world championship in Eugene due to TVP (deep vein thrombosis) and has more recently fought with a southern nerve problem that has now treated the leg.
“That has been handled mainly this year and is classified through some nude injections series that I have during the winter. I also have more knowledge or how to avoid activating it. It is a case of those torn trains and me.
“That winter after Eugene was probably the lowest point I’ve had in athletics,” he says. “I had some years of lesions in the hamstrings before that, but then that DVT and during that winter, I began to develop the problem of Achilles as well. That combined with the second year of UNI seemed Sext at the closest moment and that Tay and I did not occur to me, and I did not do it and I did not do it. I arrived at.
But only in that dark period, continued. He said: “One of these days you will have a season in which you don’t have a problem like that and you can afford to overcome these seasons, you just need to endure there and still treat it as a career. I am a lieutenant to have.
“I think I have known for years that if I could chain more training together that I have to administer my legs and more races, as well as getting that experience, which could show a much better level of performance,” he says. “So I would say for me 1:42 This year it has been a surprise. It was a great goal, to a large extent something we expected and expected to do.”
Burgin has also used this season to refine its racing tactics. Known at the beginning of his career as a brave favorite, he discovered that sitting sometimes is his best option.
“In a global stage, I have had to change the front race, it is simply not necessarily feasible or the best when these races are or running at 1:42 casualties and some: 41s,” he explains.
“At the beginning of the season I was trying to run more in the herd. I was trying to execute a more uniform first round. But that was really a job for me. I was hitting in the middle of the pack in fifth and sixth.”
After Monaco, where the last one ended, Burgin made a tactical adjustment.
“I decided to leave and execute the first 200m [in Zurich] Much faster and really fight for that second place, “he says.” I am not running yet, but I don’t have trapped where I don’t want to be. I think that has emerged as my number one tactical option at this time. “
Burgin’s training configuration remains in the place where he began, with his father, Ian, who has trained him since Burgin was 14 years old.
“Having my father in that training role is some who will have patience to overcome all setbacks, some who are forced to stay there and hit me. I can’t think of a better way.
Ian has never trained another athlete and, according to Max, will probably never do it.
“Sufficiently stress about me. I would like to enjoy working with other people. But that does not mean that you do not have the request for knowledge or experience to make more coaching.”
Inevitably, comparisons with another famous father-son training duo arise: Seb and Peter Coe. Burgin is now within reach of the British Registry of COE or 1: 41.73.
“It feels a lot at a moving distance,” he says. “Whether it’s something I can run in this championship, I don’t know. The championship is not always the best place to pursue times, but it is something that feels very possible for me now.”
Now, as the World Championship has arrived, Burgin is where he always believes he could be.
“He feels as if he had gone through a difficult patch and I have returned to where he was.”
Burgin will compete in the 800 m male heats on September 16 at 11:35 am
