Marita Koch’s 47.60: The Cold War Time-Capsule Nobody Can Outrun
Marita Koch, the Human Stopwatch from the Wrong Side of the Wall, Still Haunts the Track It’s 1985, the planet is busy stockpiling nuclear warheads like limited-edition sneakers, and in Canberra a 28-year-old East German with a perm sharp enough to slice bread glides through the 400 metres in 47.60 seconds. The stadium gasps, the…