Keely Hodgkinson

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Hodgkinson at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey
Personal information
Full nameKeely Nicole Hodgkinson
Born (2002-03-03) 3 March 2002 (age 22)
Atherton, Greater Manchester, England [1]
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [2]
Sport
Country Great Britain
England
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 800 metres, 400 m
Club Leigh Harriers
Coached by
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
World finals
Highest world ranking1st (800 m, 09.2021)
Personal bests
Updated on 5 August 2024

Keely Nicole Hodgkinson OLY [ citation needed ] (born 3 March 2002) [4] [5] is an English middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [6]

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At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. [7] Hodgkinson proceeded to win silver medals at several championships; the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Continentally, Hodgkinson went one step higher, becoming a two-time European champion from 2022 and 2024 and a two-time European indoor champion from 2021 and 2023. She also holds the world indoor best for the 600 metres and was the 2021 and 2023 Diamond League 800 m champion, her first 'global' titles.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won the gold medal in the Women’s 800m. Defending champion Athing Mu of the United States failed to qualify for the Games. In the final, Hodgkinson led the race from early on, breaking away in the final 100 metres, and beating Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Kenya’s reigning World and Commonwealth Games champion, Mary Moraa.

She is a four-time British national senior champion.

Early life and background

Hodgkinson was born on 3 March 2002 in Atherton, Greater Manchester, and brought up there. [8] Her mother Rachel trained for a time with Leigh Harriers while her father Dean had run in the London Marathon in the past. [9] [3]

Hodgkinson graduated from Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley and Loughborough College in Leicestershire. [10] [11] In 2020, she became a student of criminology at Leeds Beckett University, and took a gap year in 2021. [3] [12]

Early and youth career

External images
Searchtool.svg How it started (K.H. on the left) – Leigh Sports Village
Searchtool.svg and how it's going – 2021 Tokyo Olympics

Hodgkinson joined Leigh Harriers at the age of nine, but initially swam with Howe Bridge Aces before devoting herself fully to running. [13] [14]

She first made an impression aged barely 10, in 2012. Competing among 70 finalists at the British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships in London, Hodgkinson finished second in the 500 metres run with a personal best (1:34.28) and also swam 50 m with a new best as well for an overall eighth place. [15] Her father advised her to run, and she was inspired by British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. [16] [17]

From that point, Keely won many age-group titles and minor medals, culminating in her winning at age 16 European Under-18 and England U20 titles, and, after an injury-affected winter, European U20 bronze a year later. In 2013, still aged 10, 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 individual U11 girls' title in both the South East Lancashire League and the Red Rose League. [18] About two weeks later, she ran her 16th undefeated race, winning a 2 km course with the lead of 45 seconds. [19] On the track, as a first-year U13, she became double Greater Manchester champion at the 800 and 1200 metres. [4]

In 2014, the then 12-year-old won all her 13 track races (across 800–1500 metres events, with a 4:47 best at the latter) as well as many cross country competitions. [4] 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. [20] [21] Her U13 1200 m best was bettered only in 2019, remaining, as of 2023, the third-fastest on the respective British girl's all-time list. [4]

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. [22] The following year the youngster finished third in the U15 800 metres events at both the ESAA English Schools' Championships and England Athletics Championships. Around that period she began to specialise in this distance while still running cross country. [4] [23] [3]

Hodgkinson rebounded the following year, in 2017, when the then 15-year-old raced the 800 metres already in the U17 age category. Although initially fourth at the ESAA Championships, she went on to take her first gold medal at the England Championships, setting a lifetime best (2:06.85), [5] before adding the 1500 m (UK) School Games title. [24]

2018–2019

In June 2018, at 16, Hodgkinson became the England U20 800 m champion. [25] The next month, she won the gold medal at the European Athletics U18 Championships held in Győr, Hungary, breaking the championship record in the process with a time of 2:04.84. [26] [3] In August, she added titles at the England U17s and at the (UK) School Games with a competition record. [5] [27] Named by Wigan Borough Council Sports Achiever of the Year, her season's best ranked her, at the time, fifth on the British U17 female all-time list (2:04.26). [4] [28]

Her 2019 athletics year was affected by shin problems for most of the winter. Despite this and competing against athletes up to two years her senior, she placed second at the England U20s and earned bronze at the European U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden, setting a new personal best. [29] [30] [5]

Junior career

2020

On 1 February, still only 17, Hodgkinson set the second-fastest female U20 performance ever in the indoor 800 m at the Vienna Indoor Classic in Austria. Clocking a European U20 record of 2:01.16 for a win in her international debut at senior level, just 0.13 s off the world U20 standard, she broke Kirsty Wade's long-standing 1981 British U20 record (2:02.88), and Aníta Hinriksdóttir's continental best for the age group set in 2015 by 0.4 seconds. [31] [32] The same month, she went on to take her first national senior title at the British Indoor Championships. At the end of August, she debuted outdoors at international senior level in Gothenburg, Sweden, finishing with a new PB behind only the 2019 world silver medallist Raevyn Rogers. [33] In this Covid-affected season, in September, the 18-year-old claimed also the British outdoor title to become the youngest winner over 800 m since 1974. [34] [35] She improved her PB further with a time of 2:01.73, when ending her season in Rovereto, Italy (5th) three days later. [36]

2021: Tokyo Olympic silver medallist

Hodgkinson's breakthrough year began with the first British women's world U20 record for 36 years. [37] Hodgkinson returned to Vienna on 30 January, after Covid-induced travel complications, and that same day, she won for the second consecutive year with a time of 1:59.03 – her first result under 2 minutes, making her the first junior woman in history to break this mark in the indoor 800 m. She obliterated by exactly two seconds previous best set by Ethiopia's Meskerem Legesse in 2004. [38] However, Hodgkinson's contemporary Athing Mu, USA's rising talent, improved the new record the following month (1:58.40). [39]

On Hodgkinson's senior major championship debut, four days after her 19th birthday, she became the youngest British winner at the European Athletics Indoor Championships 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 Toruń, Poland. Only Marilyn Neufville has been a younger UK gold medallist when winning the 400 metres in 1970 at age 17, while Hodgkinson was younger than fellow Briton Jane Colebrook, who became the then-youngest European 800 m champion in 1977. [40] [41]

In May, Keely secured her first major international outdoor victory at the Golden Spike in Ostrava, Czechia posting for the first 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 Birte Bruhns' standard of 1:59.17 set in 1988. [42] [43] At the end of June, she sealed a place in the British team for the Tokyo Olympics by defending her title at the Nationals which doubled as the Olympic trials, outsprinting experienced Scottish duo Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie on the final straight. [44] [45] [46] A week later, she set a British U23 record by lowering her PB to 1:57.51 when finishing fourth at the Stockholm Diamond League meet. [47]

"If the Olympics had been last year I wouldn't have been here, but suddenly it's given me a year to grow and compete with these girls."

– Hodgkinson on her silver medal at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. [48]

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2020 Tokyo Olympics
Searchtool.svg Surprised Hodgkinson after final race with Athing Mu (left, 1st) and Alexandra Bell (right, 7th)

Before the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in August she ranked eighth on the season's top list and fifth among women entered. [49] [50] She placed second in her heat and then won her semi-final with the fourth-fastest time of the semis. In the final, Hodgkinson blitzed to the silver medal, taking almost two seconds off her fresh personal best and almost six seconds off her pre-2021 best with a time of one minute 55.88 seconds, finishing behind only Athing Mu who clocked 1:55.21. Hodgkinson broke Kelly Holmes' 26-year-old British record of 1:56.21, beating the European U20 best (1:57.45) dating back to 1978. [51] [52] [48] She also set a continental U23 record. [53]

Hodgkinson won her first Diamond Trophy (800 m) in 2021. Pictured (L) at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels. Women's 800m at Brussels DL 2021.jpg
Hodgkinson won her first Diamond Trophy (800 m) in 2021. Pictured (L) at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels.

On her return to the Diamond circuit, the Briton came fifth in USA's Eugene in Oregon, then second in Brussels, and ended the season with a 1:57.98 victory at the Zürich final in September, winning her first Diamond League race and first Diamond Trophy. [5] [54] [55]

Funded before 2021 by her parents who have also three other children, until October she had no support from UK Athletics which, possibly due to the pandemic, did not make any changes to its funding list the previous year. [56] She was backed by businessman Barrie Wells, who had previously helped fund 18 athletes to the 2012 London Olympics; he matched her £15,000 a year Lottery funding, allowing for spring warm-weather training in Florida. Hodgkinson is one of Wells Trust's athlete ambassadors. [57] [58]

Senior career

2022: World silver medallist

In February 2022, Keely Hodgkinson recorded the fastest indoor 800 m time by a woman in 20 years. Keely Hodgkinson at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix in 2022 (cropped).jpg
In February 2022, Keely Hodgkinson recorded the fastest indoor 800 m time by a woman in 20 years.

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. [59]

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 Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. 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 of all time. [60] [61] Heading to the World Indoors in Belgrade Hodgkinson was a red-hot favourite. However, she had to withdraw from the competition after warm-up on site due to a quad injury. [62]

Only 0.08 s separated the winner (C) and the runner-up (R) at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the US. Mu and Hodgkinson at 2022 World Athletics Championships.jpg
Only 0.08 s separated the winner (C) and the runner-up (R) at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the US.

The 20-year-old kickstarted her summer season on 21 May on the Diamond League circuit, with a victory in her specialist event in Birmingham. [63] She then continued competition in the Diamond Race, winning in Eugene behind the pond, Oslo, and coming home second behind Kenya's Mary Moraa in Stockholm. [5] Ahead of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, first year seniors Mu and Hodgkinson looked favourites, though the latter was fourth on the season's outdoor top list. Third place was occupied by Moraa, two years older, who had exited in the semis at the Tokyo Olympics the previous year. [64]

It was a very tense battle for the line against Mu this time, in the final straight, at the World Championships 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 (1:56.71). [65] [66] 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. [67] The same August, she responded to the setbacks and secured her first major senior outdoor gold, winning convincingly her two-lap event at the European Championships held in Munich. [68] [69]

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. [70] However, Hodgkinson's Birmingham indoor mark made her the world leader for the season with a nearly 1.3-second advantage, while her result from the Worlds final ranked second outdoors that year. [71] [72]

2023

Hodgkinson won her third European title, dominating at Istanbul 2023 to extend her streak of sub-two-minute races to 19. Keely Hodgkinson at 2023 European Indoor Championships.jpg
Hodgkinson won her third European title, dominating at Istanbul 2023 to extend her streak of sub-two-minute races to 19.

"This one is definitely for him. He had a lot of belief in little 10-year-old me [...]. I hope to make him really proud and I know he will be up there watching [...]."

– Hodgkinson dedicated her third European title to her first coach in athletics, who had died before the championships. [74] [75]

2022 saw the emergence of new rival for Hodgkinson as Moraa, defeated by the Briton at the World Championships, entered Mu–Hodgkinson equation. Keely got her 2023 campaign off to strong start on 28 January on the home turf of Manchester. She set a world indoor best in the less frequently run distance of 600 metres with a time of 1:23.41, beating Olga Kotlyarova's record set in 2004 by 0.03 s. [76] [77] Hodgkinson then won for the first time and decisively the World Indoor Tour in her 800 m category, prevailing in all her races. She took victories in Toruń again (meet record of 1:57.87), Liévin in France (competing against Moraa and dominating over her in those two) and Tour Final in Birmingham, where she slightly improved her own UK indoor record with 1:57.18. [78] [79] [80] The Mancunian rounded off her indoor season with a successful, commanding defence of her European title at Istanbul 2023. She dedicated the win to her first coach in athletics, Joe Galvin, who had died a few days earlier. [81] [75]

Outdoors, the 21-year-old began with an emphatic victory at the Paris Diamond League on 9 June, breaking her British record by 0.11 s in a time of 1:55.77. [82] [83] Working on her speed, she competed in and won the 400 metres at the England U23s with a new PB. She then lost800 to often unpredictable Moraa at the Lausanne Diamond League in Switzerland, and took800 her fourth British title. Having been appointed UK team co-captain at the European U23 Championships held in Espoo, Finland, where she competed in the 400 m, Hodgkinson went on to secure bronze, clocking a new PB again (51.76). [84] [5] Later she missed the sold-out, with over 50,000 native crowd, London Diamond League, would be her debut at the Olympic Stadium, due to an illness. [85]

At the World Championships held that year in Budapest, the "Big Three" grabbed all the medals again in one of the event's most highly anticipated showdowns. The Briton snuck through inside in the final straight to defeat Mu for the first time, but could not overhaul Moraa in the last metres, finishing second in 1:56.34 with almost exactly 0.3 s separating her from both Moraa (1:56.03) and Mu (1:56.61). [86] Hodgkinson rebounded at the Eugene Diamond League final, front-running for almost the entire distance to claim her second Diamond Trophy and improve massively her own UK record with a time of 1:55.19, an almost 0.6 s progress. Though she beat Moraa, the race was narrowly won, however, in turn by Mu who competed as an ineligible national wild card and set a US record (1:54.97). [87] [88] Thus, as in the previous year, Hodgkinson definitely led the season's indoor top list and was second on the outdoor one.

2024

Hodgkinson opened her 2024 season by running a 400 metres personal best of 51.61 s at a meeting in Citta di Savona, Italy, on 15 May finishing second behind Ireland's Sharlene Mawdsley. [89]

In her first 800 metres of the season at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, USA, on 25 May, Hodgkinson surged past world champion Mary Moraa with 150 metres to go and stretched clear to win in a world lead time of 1:55.78. [90]

Hodgkinson won gold at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, retaining the title she won two years previously. [91]

At the Diamond League meeting in London on 20 July, Hodgkinson set a new British 800m record of 1:54:61 to become the sixth fastest woman in history over the distance. [92] [93] [94]

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Hodgkinson clinched the gold medal in the women's 800m final with a time of 1:56.72. [95] [96] [97] [98]

On 21 August, she announced she would miss the rest of the season due to injury. [99] [100]

Achievements

Information taken from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. [5] Last updated on 15 May 2024.

Personal bests

EventTimeVenueDateNotes
400 metres 51.61Citta di Savona, Italy15 May 2024
400 metres indoor52.42 i Birmingham, United Kingdom27 February 2022
600 metres indoor1:23.41 i Manchester, United Kingdom28 January 2023 World best
800 metres 1:54.61 London, England20 July 2024 British record, fastest European this century
800 metres indoor1:57.18 i Birmingham, United Kingdom25 February 2023 AU23R [note 1] British record, 6th woman all time, fastest since 2002 [101]
1500 metres 4:30.00 Loughborough, United Kingdom1 September 2017(age 15; also 4:29.05 in 2018 Mx [4] )
Junior achievements
800 metres1:55.88 Tokyo, Japan3 August 2021 AU20R , former AU23R & British record, 4th U20 woman all time [102]
800 metres indoor1:59.03 i Vienna, Austria30 January 2021 AU20R , [note 2] 2nd U20 female mark all time [103]

International competitions

Keely Hodgkinson interviewed at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. Keely Hodgkinson at 2023 European Indoor Championships1.jpg
Keely Hodgkinson interviewed at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeNotes
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain / Flag of England.svg  England
2018 European U18 Championships Győr, Hungary1st 800 m 2:04.84 CR
2019 European U20 Championships Borås, Sweden3rd 800 m 2:03.40 PB
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland1st 800 m i 2:03.88
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan2nd 800 m 1:55.88 AU20R AU23R NR
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States2nd 800 m 1:56.38 SB
Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom2nd 800 m 1:57.40
European Championships Munich, Germany1st 800 m 1:59.04
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey1st 800 m i1:58.66
European U23 Championships Espoo, Finland3rd 400 m 51.76 PB
World Championships Budapest, Hungary2nd 800 m 1:56.34
2024 European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 800 m 1:58.65
Olympic Games Paris, France1st 800 m 1:56.72

Circuit wins and titles

800 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses.

Progression

Key:  Lifetime best

Year800 m
indoor
NotesWorld rank800 mNotesWorld rank
2017(age 15)2:06.85211 – 632 – 472
20182:04.265th UK U17 woman all time71 – 212 – 225
20192:03.4031 – 92 – 167
20202:01.16 i AU20iR12 – 132:01.731 2 – 49
20211:59.03 iWU20iR22 – 41:55.88AU20R AU23R NR22 – 2
20221:57.20 iAU23iR [note 1] NiR11:56.382
20231:57.18 iAU23iR [note 1] NiR11:55.19AU23R NR2

– World rank from World Athletics' Season Top Lists. 1U18 ranking, 2U20 ranking.

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 also in 2018. [4]

Key:  National championships;   Other National level events

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
2016ESAA English Schools' Championships, U15 events Gateshead 3rd800 m2:13.08
England Championships, U15 events Bedford 3rd800 m2:12.53
2017ESAA English Schools' Championships, U17 events Birmingham 4th800 m2:08.82
England Championships, U17 events Bedford 1st800 m2:06.85
(UK) School Games, U17 events Loughborough 1st1500 m4:30.00
2018England Championships, U20 events Bedford 1st800 m2:04.41
England Championships, U17 events Bedford 1st800 m2:09.38
(UK) School Games, U17 events Loughborough 1st800 m2:04.89 GR
2019England Championships, U20 events Bedford 2nd800 m2:05.77
2020 British Indoor Championships Glasgow 1st800 m i 2:04.37
British Championships Manchester 1st800 m2:03.24
2021 British Indoor Championships Event cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic
British Championships Manchester 1st800 m1:59.61
2022 British Indoor Championships Birmingham 2nd400 m i52.42 PB
British Championships Manchester 5th400 m52.41 PB
2023 British Indoor Championships Birmingham
England Championships, U23 events Chelmsford 1st400 m52.24 PB CR
British Championships Manchester 1st800 m1:58.26 SR

Honours and awards

2018
2021
2023

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Although European Athletic Association recognises under-20 and U23 records outdoors, it, however, acknowledges only U20 age category in indoor competitions.
  2. World indoor under-20 record until 27 February 2021.

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