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John Salvado

FOUND: Peyton craig runs personal best in olympic 800m semi - What They Never Told You

Peyton Craig (2nd right) looked right at home on the world stage. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Teenage middle-distance star Peyton Craig has taken enormous self-belief from going within a whisker of becoming just the second Australian man in more than half a century to contest an Olympic 800m final.

Craig, 19, ran a tactically-astute race on Friday in Paris that belied his inexperience on the world stage, stopping the clock in a personal best time of one minute 44.11 seconds in sixth place.

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