Swiss runner beats Olympic champion as she runs the third-fastest girls’s 800m in historical past; in one other shock Armand Duplantis fails to win the pole vault for the primary time in 40 occasions
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Keely Hodgkinson was surprised on the Diamond League occasion in Stockholm
Keely Hodgkinson ran her fastest-ever 800m time on Sunday – however astonishingly nonetheless completed second on the Diamond League in Stockholm.
After Hodgkinson completed seventh within the 400m in Rome on Thursday, the Olympic champion was again in her favoured occasion however was surprised into second place by Audrey Werro.
The Swiss runner completed first with a time of 1 minute 53.98 seconds – the third-fastest girls’s 800m in historical past and the quickest in 2026.
Hodgkinson and Werro raced away from the sphere in Stockholm, however the British athlete was unable to maintain the tempo along with her rival regardless of a British document time of 1:54.33.
“It was a quick one, a really interesting race,” Hodgkinson mentioned.
“When Audrey went off I was like ‘just chill’, but massive respect to her. That was a great race and it will motivate me more in training to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”
She added: “I can build on this great start. It’s still very early. It’s good to have a run in your legs because you can learn what you can do better but overall I am quite happy with that race because I made the right decisions, but Audrey was just better on the day.”
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There have been different surprises in Stockholm with pole vault star Armand Duplantis struggling a shock loss to Kurtis Marschall after he didn’t clear 6.05m.
It was the primary time in 40 occasions that the Swede had not been victorious.
Earlier within the day there was a private greatest for British runner Amy Hunt within the 200m, however she completed second behind world champion Melissa Jefferson-Picket.
