Crew GB’s Olympic ladies’s 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson has ended her 2024 season early, saying on her Instagram account that she had picked up an harm, stopping her from competing in September’s Diamond League conferences.
By Ros Satar
Final Up to date: 22/08/24 8:12am
Keely Hodgkinson gained gold within the ladies’s 800m last on the Paris Olympics
Crew GB’s Olympic ladies’s 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson has ended her 2024 season early with harm.
Hodgkinson, who gained all 9 of her 800m races this yr, returned triumphant from France and had focused breaking the world file of 1 minute and 53.28 seconds, set by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983.
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Hodgkinson mirrored on her gold medal-winning efficiency and set the world file as her subsequent goal
The 22-year-old from Manchester made the announcement on Instagram, telling followers:
“No more races for me!! Unfortunately I picked up a small injury, but we achieved everything I had hoped to do this year, thank you for all the love and support!! See you on the track next year.”
Hodginkson efficiently defended her European Championship title earlier this yr in Rome, and broke her personal nationwide file on the Diamond League assembly in London, simply forward of the Paris Video games.
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Miriam Walker-Khan reported from Paris after Hodgkinson stormed to a surprising ladies’s 800m gold
She’s going to look to improve the 2 earlier silver medals she has gained on the World Championships, when Tokyo hosts the occasion in 2025.
