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Olympics 2024: Keely Hodgkinson targets breaking 41-year-old 800m world report after Paris gold
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Olympics 2024: Keely Hodgkinson targets breaking 41-year-old 800m world report after Paris gold

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Keely Hodgkinson has set her sights on breaking the long-standing girls’s 800m report following her gold medal on the Olympics.

The 22-year-old took gold in Paris on Monday night in a time of 1min 56.72sec after silver medals on the Video games in Tokyo three years in the past, and the World finals in 2022 and 2023.

The world report for the ladies’s 800m of 1:53.28 has stood because the 1983 World Championship when it was set by Czechoslovakia’s Jarmila Kratochvilova, and Hodgkinson admits it’s a mark she is aiming to beat.

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Olympics 2024: Keely Hodgkinson targets breaking 41-year-old 800m world report after Paris gold

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson says she at all times backed herself to win gold going into the ultimate.

“That would be incredible,” Hodgkinson, whose private finest is at present a 1:54.61 set on the London Diamond League in June, advised Sky Sports activities Information.

“It is undoubtedly an purpose we have spoken about within the final couple of years, and may anybody get close to to it?

“What now we have occurring in observe and area now with how we’re coaching, the science now we have now with the tracks and footwear, I welcome it and I believe it is such an incredible factor.

“If I can get close to it, why not give it a go? It would be an incredible achievement.”

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Miriam Walker-Khan reports from Paris after Keely Hodgkinson stormed to a stunning women's 800m gold.

Miriam Walker-Khan studies from Paris after Keely Hodgkinson stormed to a shocking girls’s 800m gold.

Hodgkinson’s victory on the Stade de France noticed her turn into the primary British feminine competitor to win a gold in athletics since Jessica Ennis-Hill’s heptathlon triumph in 2012.

It was Ennis-Hill who proved a childhood inspiration for Hodgkinson as nicely, and she or he was delighted to deliver it full circle along with her 800m triumph.

“It does mean everything to me,” Hodgkinson stated. “I have so many people behind me; it is an individual sport, but there is such a team behind it.

“I owe lots of people, and that is our second to have fun. I am simply super-happy it got here collectively.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what comes of that and I guess I’ve cemented myself in a bit of history, so that’s good.”

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Favorite Olympics reminiscence? Largest inspiration? Get to know Olympic and World silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson as she prepares for the Paris Video games this summer time.

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