Keely Hodgkinson won the gold in the 800m run at Mueller Indoor Grand Prix with a new British indoor record

The English athlete Keely Hodgkinson made a great performance in the 800m run at Mueller Indoor Grand Prix and won the gold, improving the British indoor and tournament records with 1:57.20 min. This is the sixth world’s best of all time.

Keely Hodgkinson ran the first 400m in 58.58 sec, then took the 600m in 1:28.35 min and ended the race with 1:57.20 min.

Second in this run was Catriona Bisset, who set a new record for Australia in her indoor debut – 1:59.46 min, and third finished Jamaican Natoya Goule with 1:59.85 minutes.

Keely Hodgkinson is an English athlete specializing in 800m. At the age of 19, she won a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. In 2021, she became the Diamond League champion, and the youngest ever women’s 800m European indoor champion as well as the second-youngest British holder of the European Athletics Indoor Championships title.