Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002) is an English athlete specialising in the

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. At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the

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, breaking the British record set by

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in 1995. She is the 2022 World Championships and

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silver medallist, 2022 European champion, and a two-time European indoor champion from

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and

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, with her 2021 title secured as the youngest ever European women's indoor 800 m winner. Both Hodgkinson's Tokyo result and her

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indoor mark are European U20 records, making her at 800 m the fourth-fastest and the second-fastest under-20 woman of all time respectively. In 2021, she became the Diamond League champion. In February 2022, she set a British 800 m indoor record (improved in 2023), placing her sixth on the respective world all-time list. She also holds world indoor best in the

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. At age 16, Hodgkinson became the 800 m European U18 champion and won England's U20 title. A year later, she took bronze at the European U20 Championships. She was the first junior woman in history to break the two-minute barrier in the indoor event. Hodgkinson is a three-time British national champion.

Early life and background

Keely Hodgkinson was raised in Atherton near

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in Greater Manchester; she has three younger siblings. Her mother Rachel trained for a time with Leigh Harriers while her father Dean had run the

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in the past. She attended Fred Longworth High School in

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. In 2020, she became a student of

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at the

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, and took a gap year in 2021.

Early and youth career

Hodgkinson joined Leigh Harriers at the age of nine, but initially swam with Howe Bridge Aces before devoting herself fully to running. She first made an impression aged 10, in 2012. Competing among 70 finalists at the British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships in London, she finished second in the 500 metres run with a personal best of 1:34.28 and also swam 50 m with a new best as well for an overall eighth place. Her father advised her to run, and she was inspired by British

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winning the gold medal at the

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. From that point, age-group medals kept piling up for Keely, culminating in her winning at age 16 European U18 and England U20 titles, and European U20 bronze a year later. In 2013, she already had an unbeaten streak of 14 running events. In winning a one-mile cross country course she became the first Leigh Harriers girl to claim the under-11 title in both the South East Lancashire League and the Red Rose League. About two weeks later, she ran her 16th undefeated race, winning a 2 km course with the lead of 45 seconds. On the

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, as a first-year U13, she became double

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champion at the

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and 1200 metres. In 2014, the then 12-year-old won all her 13 track races (across 800–

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events) as well as many cross country competitions. She took her third Greater Manchester title on a 2.75 km cross country course and later defended both her track titles, breaking championship records – the latter of which had stood since 1985. Her 1200 m best was bettered only in 2019, remaining, as of 2023, the third-fastest on the British U13 girl's all-time list. In 2015, she had to limit training and starts due to a mastoidectomy surgery to remove a tumour on her ear (which has left her 95% deaf in this ear) followed by problems with knees. Aged 14, the youngster finished third in the U15 800 m events at the ESAA English Schools' Championships and at the England Championships. Around that period Hodgkinson began to specialise at this distance while still running cross country. The following year, in 2017, running in the U17 800 m races, she came fourth at the ESAA Championships and took her first gold medal at the England Championships, setting a lifetime best of 2:06.85. She added the 1500 m UK

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title.

2018–2019

In June 2018, at 16, Hodgkinson became the England U20 800 m champion. The next month, she won a gold medal at the European U18 Championships held in

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, Hungary, finishing in 2:04.84 and breaking the championship record in the process. In August, she added titles at the England under-17s and at the UK School Games with a competition record. In October,

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named Hodgkinson Sports Achiever of the Year, selecting her for its Believe Talent Fund. Her season's and lifetime best was 2:04.26. Her 2019 athletics year was affected by shin problems for most of the winter. Despite this, competing against athletes up to two years her senior, she placed second at the England under-20s and took bronze at the U20 Europeans held in

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, Sweden, setting a new personal best of 2:03.40.

Junior career

2020

On 1 February, still only 17, Hodgkinson won the 800 m event at the Vienna Indoor Track & Field competition in a European U20 record time of 2:01.16. She broke

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's long-standing 1981 British U20 record of 2:02.88, and

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's European U20 mark set in 2015 by 0.4 seconds. The same month, she went on to take her first national senior title at the British Indoor Championships. Outdoors in August, she won two BMC gold standard races in

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with a new best in the first of them, and then improved it to 2:01.78 to finish second at a meeting in

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, Sweden. In what was her international outdoor debut at senior level, Hodgkinson lost only to the 2019 world silver medallist, Raevyn Rogers. In September, the 18-year-old claimed also the British outdoor title to become the youngest winner over 800 m since 1974. She clocked even better lifetime best with 2:01.73, when ending her season in

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(5th), Italy three days later.

2021: Tokyo Olympic silver medallist

2021 began with the first British women's world U20 record for 36 years. Hodgkinson returned and won in Vienna for the second consecutive year in 1:59.03 – her first result under 2 minutes, making her the first junior woman in history to break this mark in the

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800 m. She obliterated by exactly two seconds previous best set by Ethiopia's

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in 2004. Her record stood for less than a month, however, before being improved by her chief rival and age-mate, USA's

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, who ran a time of 1:58.40. On Hodgkinson's senior major championship debut, four days after her 19th birthday, she became the youngest British winner at the

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for more than half a century and the youngest ever women's 800 m European indoor champion after a tactical win over a quality field in

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, Poland. Only Marilyn Neufville has been a younger UK gold medallist when winning the

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at age 17, and Hodgkinson was younger than fellow Briton

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, who became the then-youngest European 800 m champion in

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. In May, Keely secured her first major international outdoor victory at the

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, posting for the first ever time sub-2 minute mark outdoors with 1:58.89 as she broke by almost a second long-standing UK junior record of Charlotte Moore. While not the fastest European U20 women's result, officially it was also the European junior record, beating

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' mark of 1:59.17 set in 1988. At the end of June, she defended her British title at the Nationals which doubled up as Olympic trials, outsprinting experienced Scottish duo

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and

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on the final straight to secure a place on the plane to Tokyo. A week later, she lowered her PB to 1:57.51 when finishing fourth at the

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meet, setting a British U23 record. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games in August, Hodgkinson won the silver medal, taking almost two seconds off her previous personal best and almost six seconds off her pre-2021 best with a time of one minute 55.88 seconds, behind Athing Mu (1:55.21). She broke

' 26-year-old British record of 1:56.21 and the 1978 European U20 best of 1:57.45. All top five and the seventh woman set their lifetime bests. For the first time in history three women from Britain competed in the Olympic final, with Jemma Reekie narrowly missing out on bronze and Alexandra Bell placing seventh. Women's 800m at Brussels DL 2021

On her return to the Diamond circuit, the Briton came fifth in USA's Eugene, then second in

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, and ended the season with a 1:57.98 victory in the Zürich final in September, winning her first Diamond League race to claim her first 800 m Diamond Trophy. Until October she was not funded by

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as the organisation, possibly due to the

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, did not add anyone onto its World Class Performance Programme in 2020. She was backed by businessman

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, who had previously helped fund 20 athletes to the 2012 London Summer Games; he matched her £15,000 a year Lottery funding allowing for warm-weather training in Florida. Hodgkinson is one of Wells Trust's athlete ambassadors.

Senior career

2022: World silver medallist

That year was very packed and demanding for still very young athlete, including World Indoor Championships in March and three major outdoor championships in just a one-month span in the summer. On the heels of a successful 2021 season, Hodgkinson opened her athletics year on 19 February with the fastest indoor 800 m performance by a woman in 20 years of 1:57.20 at the

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. It was the quickest mark since the precise day she was born, when the world record was set. She established the British record, all-comers' record (best performance on country's soil), the fastest ever mark by a teenager, and the sixth-fastest indoor mark all time. Heading to the World Indoors Belgrade 2022 in March Hodgkinson was a red-hot favourite. However, she had to withdraw from the competition after warm-up in Belgrade due to a

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injury.

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The 20-year-old kickstarted her summer season on 21 May on the Diamond circuit, with a victory in her specialist event in

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. She then continued competition in the Diamond Race, winning in Eugene behind the pond,

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, and coming home second behind Kenya's

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in Stockholm. It was a very tense battle for the line against Mu this time in the final 100 m at the

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in July. After one of the most thrilling finishes of the Worlds, Hodgkinson came only 0.08 s behind her to claim the silver medal with a season's best of 1:56.38, comfortably ahead of Moraa. Less than two weeks later at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, she was unexpectedly defeated by fast-finishing Moraa earning also a silver, 1:57.40 to 1:57.07. The same August, she lived up to her status as a pre-race favourite and secured her first major senior outdoor championship title, winning convincingly her two-laps event at the European Championships Munich 2022. Concluding this busy athletics year she struggled to maintain her form, and had to settle for fifth at the Zürich Diamond League final in September; the race was won by Moraa. However, Hodgkinson's Birmingham indoor mark made her the world leader for the season with a nearly 1.3-second advantage, while her timing from the World Championship final ranked second outdoors that year.

2023–present

Keely Hodgkinson at 2023 European Indoor Championships

2022 saw the emergence of new rival for Hodgkinson as Moraa, defeated by Briton in the most important event during World finals, entered Mu–Hodgkinson equation. Keely got her 2023 campaign off to strong start. On 28 January, her Bryggen Sports' home indoor track facility in

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organised for its local star the less frequently run race of

as part of World Indoor Tour bronze meet. She scorched to a world indoor best of 1:23.41, beating by 0.03 s

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's record set in 2004. She clashed indoors with Moraa in

about two weeks later and then in

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, France, with Hodgkinson taking dominant victories, setting a meet record at the former (1:57.87). She triumphed also more than 2.50 s clear of the field at the World Indoor Tour Final in Birmingham, improving her own British indoor record by 0.02 s with a time of 1:57.18 and taking her first overall 800 m World Indoor Tour victory. The Briton rounded off her indoor campaign with a successful, overwhelming defense of her European title at Istanbul 2023. She dedicated the win to her first coach in athletics, Joe Galvin, who died a few days earlier.

Achievements

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Personal bests

International competitions

Keely Hodgkinson at 2023 European Indoor Championships1

Circuit wins and titles

800 metres wins, other events specified in parenthesis. *

champion:

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: Birmingham Diamond League, Eugene Prefontaine Classic (), Oslo Bislett Games *

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800 m overall winner: 2023 **

(WL ) **

: Manchester World Indoor Tour (Bronze level, 600m, ), Toruń Copernicus Cup (WL MR), Liévin Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais (WL), Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final (WL MR)

National championships and competitions

Track results only. Hodgkinson competed also at the ECCA English Championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) with best place being fifth on a 5 km course in 2018, and at the cross country ESAA Championships (2016, 2017, 2018) with best place being second on a 3.8 km course in 2018. Key: ;

Progression

Key: ¹U18 ranking, ²U20 ranking * World rank from World Athletics' Season Top Lists

Honours and awards

;2018 * British Athletics Supporters Club: Young Female Athlete of the Year ;2021 *

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: Cliff Temple Award for British Female Athlete of the Year * British Athletics Supporters Club: Athlete of the Year * ''

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'': British Rising Star and British Female Athlete of the Year

Notes

References

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