Runner Josh Hoey breaks indoor 800-metre world record at New Balance Grand Prix

American ‍Josh Hoey shattered the men's 800-metre short-track world record at the New Balance Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday, clocking one minute 42.50 seconds to ​break a mark that stood for more than 28 years.

Hoey took 0.17 seconds off the previous record of 1:42.67, set by Denmark's Wilson Kipketer at the World Indoor Championships ​in Paris in 1997.

It’s another highlight to a breakout indoor season that included a ⁠world 600 short-track best set in ‍Boston seven weeks ⁠ago.

Already the second-fastest ​indoor 800 runner all-time after setting a North American mark of 1:43.24 at last year's U.S. Indoor Championships in New York, Hoey was ⁠paced by his brother Jaxson and surged clear late to win by more than two seconds.

Jaxson led him through ‍200 metres in 24.81 and 400 in 50.21 before stepping aside, with Hoey passing 600 in 1:16.19 and holding on until the line.

"We did a ⁠lot of pacing work," Hoey was quoted as saying by World ​Athletics. "Just kind of kept steadily improving, taking it week-by-week, ​block-by-block, and we were able to make this work."

Earlier ‍on the card, American Hobbs Kessler set a 2000m short-track world best of ‍4:48.79 to beat ⁠the previous mark of 4:49.99 set by Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele almost 19 years ago.

Calgary-born distance runner Grant Fisher, the world short-track 3,000 record-holder, finished second in 4:49.48.