The 2021 Diamond 800m winner Keely Hodgkinson will return to the London Stadium on July 23. Since her last appearance there, she has won an Olympic, World, and European medal, as well as a Commonwealth Games honor. She will start again in the 800m at the Diamond League.
“I am very excited to compete in London. I have no doubt it will be an amazing experience to run in front of a big home crowd, so I can’t wait to get the chance to perform on that stage in the summer”, said Keely Hodgkinson. The Diamond League tournaments are always contested and this will be one of the last important competitions before Budapest”, added she ahead of the Diamond League race.
Keely Hodgkinson is an English athlete specializing in the 800m. At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. She is the 2022 World Championships and 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medallist, 2022 European champion, and a two-time European indoor champion from 2021 and 2023, with her 2021 title secured as the youngest-ever European women’s indoor 800m winner.
Both Keely Hodgkinson’s Tokyo result and her junior 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 800m indoor record (improved in 2023), placing her sixth on the respective world all-time list. She also holds world indoor best in the 600 metres.
