800 metres
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The 800 metres is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event, run over two laps of an outdoor track and has been an Olympic event since the first moder
Men's 800 metres final in Daegu 2011.
Women's 800 m final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships
Keely Hodgkinson
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Keely Nicole Hodgkinson is an English middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. Over this distance, she won gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2026 World Indoor Championships
800 metres
…David Rudisha (KEN) 1:40.91 (2012) Women Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) 1:53.28 (1983) Short track world records Men Josh Hoey (USA) 1:42.50 (2026) Women Keely Hodgkinson (GBR) 1:54.87 (2026) Olympic records Men David Rudisha (KEN) 1:40.91 (2012) Women Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS) 1:53.43 (1980) World Championship records…
Hodgkinson at the 2023 European Indoor Championships
Hodgkinson won her first Diamond Trophy (800 m) in 2021. Pictured (L) at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels.
In February 2022, Keely Hodgkinson recorded the fastest indoor 800 m time by a woman in 20 years.
Only 0.08 s separated the winner (C) and the runner-up (R) at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the US.