David Rudisha has broken the 800m world record for the second time in eight days at a meeting in Rieti, Italy.
The 21-year-old Kenyan ran one minutes 41.01 seconds to better the time he recorded in Berlin last Sunday by eight hundredths of a second.
The previous best of 1:41.11, set by Denmark's Kenyan-born Wilson Kipketer's had stood for 13 years.
At the same meeting, Jamaican Nesta Carter equalled Tyson Gay's fastest time of the year over 100m - 9.78sec.
Assisted by a tail wind of +0.9, Carter won ahead of second-placed American Ryan Bailey, who ran 9.88, with another Jamaican Mario Forsythe third in 9.95.
Rudisha is the African champion over the distance but only reached the semi-finals of the 2009 World Championships.
However, he ran Kipketer's mark close at a meet in the Belgian city of Heusden-Zolder in July with a time of 1:41.51 - the closest anyone had got to Kipketer's record.
And he returned to the scene of his disappointing Worlds showing, the German capital's Olympic Stadium, to beat Kipketer's 1997 time.
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And his prediction in the immediate aftermath of that feat that he would go even faster proved correct as he again set a fresh marker in central Italy on Sunday.
Rudisha was taken through the bell by compatriot pace-setter Sammy Tangui in 48.20sec before taking off on his own to win by almost two seconds from Boaz Kiplagat Lalang, also from Kenya.
American Nick Symmonds was third in 1:43.76, while Briton Michael Rimmer took fourth in a personal best 1:43.89.
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