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Keely Hodgkinson: Olympic 800m champion to miss rest of 2024 season with injury

Keely Hodgkinson: Olympic 800m champion to miss rest of 2024 season with injury


Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will miss the rest of the 2024 athletics season as a result of of injury.

The 22-year-old had been set to compete within the Diamond League finals in Brussels in September.

Britain’s Hodgkinson gained all 9 of her 800m races in 2024, capped by successful gold on the Paris Games earlier this month.

“No extra races for me,” she posted on Instagram.

“Unfortunately I picked up a small injury, however we achieved all the things I had hoped to do that 12 months, thanks for all of the love and assist.

“See you on the monitor subsequent 12 months.”

Hodgkinson defended her European 800m title in 2024 and broke her personal nationwide file by operating one minute 54.61 seconds on the London Diamond League in July.

She has set her sights on breaking the 800m ladies’s world file of 1:53.28, which has stood for greater than 4 many years.

Hodgkinson can even goal a primary World Championship title in Tokyo in September 2025, having gained silver in every of the previous two years.

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