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A 19-year-old student has set a new record for the race immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire - Trinity College's Great Court run - the Cambridge University college says.
Second-year economics undergraduate Sam Dobin finished the sprint in 42.77 seconds last week, inside the previous record of 43.1 seconds set by Olympic athlete Lord Burghley 80 years ago.
The race requires participants to run round the 367-metre perimeter of the Great Court's narrow flagstone path before all 24 chimes of the Cambridge college's clock have rung at Midday.
