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The Independent
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Independent
Keely Hodgkinson makes stunning return to action ahead of World Athletics Championships
Keely Hodgkinson made a winning return to action at the Diamond League in Poland in her first race since the Paris Olympics. The 23-year-old Olympic champion was back in action following a 376-day absence and showed she has put her hamstring issues behind her by setting a new 800m meeting record of one minute and 54.74 seconds. Hodgkinson sustained a hamstring injury in February before the Keely Klassic and her return was delayed by a number of setbacks. But the Great Britain athlete made a statement ahead of next month's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Hodgkinson finished clear of Lilian Odira from Kenya and Botswana's Oratile Nowe in Silesia with the second fastest time of her career, just 0.13 seconds off her personal best. Hodgkinson told the BBC: 'That was so much fun. It's amazing, I really wanted to have this opportunity. 'I don't have much time to get ready for the Worlds, so I have to put something down.' Elsewhere, Kishane Thompson laid down a marker when the Jamaican came out on top in the highly-anticipated 100 metres against Olympic champion Noah Lyles. Thompson blasted out of the blocks and never looked like being beaten, while Lyles, with his typically slow start, ran strongly at the end but the Jamaican won in 9.87 seconds, with Lyles clocking 9.90, his season's best. Kenny Bednarek was third. Kenya's Faith Kipyegon produced an outstanding run in searing heat to fall just under a second shy of the women's 3,000m world record of 8:06.11, set in 1993 by China's Wang Junxia PA
The Independent
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Independent
Keely Hodgkinson makes stunning return ahead of World Athletics Championships
Keely Hodgkinson made a winning return to action at the Diamond League in Poland in her first race since the Paris Olympics. The 23-year-old Olympic champion was back in action following a 376-day absence and showed she has put her hamstring issues behind her by setting a new 800 metres meeting record of one minute and 54.74 seconds. Hodgkinson sustained a hamstring injury in February before the Keely Klassic and her return was delayed by a number of setbacks. But the Great Britain athlete made a statement ahead of next month's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Hodgkinson finished clear of Lilian Odira from Kenya and Botswana's Oratile Nowe in Silesia with the second fastest time of her career, just 0.13 seconds off her personal best. Hodgkinson told the BBC: 'That was so much fun. It's amazing, I really wanted to have this opportunity. 'I don't have much time to get ready for the Worlds, so I have to put something down.'
BBC News
3 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Hodgkinson runs world lead in first race since Olympics
Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson set an 800m world lead in her first race since winning gold at the Paris 23-year-old had been sidelined for 376 days with a hamstring injury, but returned to action in Silesia on Saturday in emphatic set a new meeting record of 1:54.74 to finish well clear of Kenya's Lilian Odira and Botswana's Oratile Briton's time was her second-fastest ever - and the fastest by any runner since her victory in the 800m final at Paris 2024."That was so much fun," she said. "It's amazing, I really wanted to have this opportunity. "I don't have much time to get ready for the Worlds, so I have to put something down."The World Championships in Tokyo get under way on 13 September and run until 21 September.
Telegraph
3 days ago
- Sport
- Telegraph
Keely Hodgkinson with new world lead time in stunning return to athletics
Keely Hodgkinson returned to athletics in sensational style on Saturday, with a new world-leading time of 1.54.74 to win the women's 800m race at the Diamond League event in Poland. Hodgkinson, in her first race since landing 800m gold at the Olympics in Paris, clocked her second quickest-ever run behind her national record of 1:54.61, and the ninth fastest time in history. After a 376-day hiatus, Hodgkinson won by almost two seconds to beat Kenya's Lilian Odira.
