Crew GB’s Keely Hodgkinson set a brand new nationwide girls’s 800m document of 1:54.61 in London; Hodgkinson: “It was a little bit of bravery and fearlessness with a great atmosphere like this, I didn’t want to waste the opportunity. The Brits know how to put on an athletics meet”
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Nice Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson set a brand new nationwide 800m document in London on Saturday
Keely Hodgkinson known as for extra athletics meets within the UK after laying down a brand new nationwide girls’s 800m document of 1:54.61 on the London Diamond League meet.
In breaking her personal nationwide document of 1:55.19, set final September in Eugene, the Tokyo Olympic and world silver medallist turned the sixth-fastest girl in historical past at her signature distance.
The world-leading time was a transparent message from the 22-year-old to her Paris competitors, six days earlier than the Olympic opening ceremony, and impressed British team-mates Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell to non-public bests for an all-GB prime three.
Hodgkinson mentioned: “It was a little bit of bravery and fearlessness with a great atmosphere like this, I didn’t want to waste the opportunity.
“The Brits know tips on how to placed on an athletics meet, I want there have been extra on this nation as a result of it is one of the best crowd I’ve ever run in entrance of.
“I’m feeling really good and confident ahead of Paris. Obviously the main aim is just to get to the final first and then once we’re there we can discuss getting medals.”
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British world silver medallist Matthew Hudson-Smith issued an announcement of his personal, beating his personal European document of 44.07sec in 43.74, whereas Colchester’s European Championships runner-up Charlie Dobson posted a private finest 44.23 in his fourth-place end.
Reigning world 100m and 200m champion Noah Lyles set a brand new private finest 9.81 within the males’s 100m curtain-closer, the place a trio of Britons missed out on a prime three rounded out by South Africa’s Akani Simbine and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo.
The Carl Lewis-coached Louie Hinchliffe got here closest with 9.97 seconds for fourth, 0.03 seconds faster than world bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes, marking his return to aggressive motion after sitting out the European championships and British championships with a hamstring drawback.
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Hughes completed sixth in precisely 10 seconds, one place above Welshman and soon-to-be Olympic debutant Jeremiah Azu.
Dina Asher-Smith was main late in a much-anticipated girls’s 200m earlier than she was overtaken by St Lucian sprinter Julien Alfred and American Gabby Thomas, who crossed first in 21.82, 0.04 seconds quicker than Alfred. Asher-Smith’s 22.07 was nonetheless ok for third with Daryll Neita fourth in 22.20.
The British quartet of Asher-Smith, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Neita got here out on prime of their girls’s 4x100m relay, matching the nationwide workforce document in a dominant, world-leading 41.55 seconds to beat second-placed France, whereas the second GB entry of Bianca Williams, Desiree Henry, Pleasure Eze and Success Eduan completed third.
It was a special story for his or her males’s counterparts Azu, Hinchliffe, Richard Kilty and Reece Prescod, who had been disqualified after miscommunication between Kilty and Prescod resulted within the latter lacking the ultimate handover.
GB’s second entry of CJ Ujah, Jeriel Quainoo, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Eugene Amo-Dadzie had higher luck, coming third in a race gained by Japan.
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World indoor champion Molly Caudery shared third place within the pole vault with a finest effort of 4.65m, and it was fifth for reigning world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who took half within the lengthy soar with a better of 6.54.
It was in the end a straightforward victory for Dutch 400m hurdler Femke Bol, absent her foremost Olympic rival Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who crossed the end line in 51.30 seconds six days after clocking 50.95, the third-fastest time in historical past.
Briton Amber Anning was fourth in her girls’s 400m, one place above compatriot Laviai Nielsen.
The afternoon featured six para occasions alongside the Diamond League programme, with a trio of nationwide 100m information set by Britons Zak Skinner (T13), Thomas Younger (T38) and Kyle Keyworth (T35).
Tokyo and Rio T38 100m champion Sophie Hahn got here out on prime of the ladies’s ambulant 100m with a season’s finest 12.55, whereas Scottish wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn cruised to victory in a girls’s 800m that noticed GB’s Mel Woods end third and seven-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft fifth.
