Keely Hodgkinson is an English middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. She won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics, leading the final from near the start and pulling away in the last 100 metres, after taking silver at the delayed 2020 Games at the age of 19, when she broke the British record Kelly Holmes had held since 1995. She has also won silver medals at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships and the 2022 Commonwealth Games, is a two-time European outdoor champion, and holds the world indoor record for 800 metres. She was born in Atherton in Greater Manchester, joined Leigh Harriers at nine, and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2024.
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Hodgkinson is the world record holder over 800 m indoors and the British record holder over 800 m outdoors.
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Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002) is an English middle-distance runner
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Hodgkinson is the world record holder over 800 m indoors and the British record holder over 800 m outdoors.
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is an English middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres
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At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Hodgkinson led the final from near the start
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