Keely Hodgkinson

After silver medals at the Olympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games, Keely Hodgkinson had had enough of finishing second in major 800m finals. She ...

“I knew it was always going to be risky doing the Europeans which is three days of races in a row and I have been finding it tough some days to just come out and do one race. To do three in a row I have to take the positives and that I am nearly there.” There has been a lot of changes for myself as I’ve adapted to professional athlete life but I am living out my childhood dreams so I really cannot complain. The latter two athletes then burst to the head of affairs halfway round the final bend and it began to look like it might become a two-way British fight for the title. As the athletes were introduced to the crowd, a huge rainbow arced across the Olympic stadium as the sun set on a cool and rain-lashed evening in Munich. “I felt like the race could have gone a few different ways.

Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson wins her first major outdoor title as she claims gold in the women's 800m at the European Championships.

Haydock-Wilson said: "We're back and this is not it - this is the beginning of this team. The four-by-four boys are back and we're here to take over." She wants to be a legend of the sport. She is going to take every opportunity she can right now." Aged 20, she has the time to do that. This is honestly amazing." Asked how she has refocused after each championship, Hodgkinson said: "Trying to get that gold definitely helped. I've still got a long way to go." "There is a great team around me that has helped me all season. She wants to win everything multiple times. She knows how fickle sport can be. "I think you can tell I was very happy to come here and finally get on top of the podium," said Hodgkinson, who pointed to the sky with a beaming smile as she crossed the finish line.

Keely Hodgkinson finally struck gold as she cruised to victory in the 800 metres final at the European Championships. After claiming silver at the Tokyo ...

I have still got a long way to go.” It is just about trying to forget and move on from it. “Trying to get that gold definitely helped. “These guys next to me are the future, the 4×4 guys are back and are ready to take over.” “There is a great team around me, they have helped me all season. Hodgkinson added: “I still have a world indoor medal (to win) that I don’t have yet and I still have a lot of silvers, so we are going to try and get some golds.

By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2022 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved MÜNICH (20-Aug) -- Keely Hodgkinson of Great Britain and Luiza Gega of Albania.

By that point Bird was clearly tiring, and Meyer pulled away to win the silver medal in a personal best 9:15.35. That gave Meyer and Bird plenty of space to fight for silver, and the pair engaged in an exciting seesaw battle. With three laps to go, Bird was firmly in second place and Meyer seemed too far back to catch her. Bird responded, and passed Meyer with about 400 meters to go, but Meyer quickly came back on her to re-take second. “This part of the race I had the feeling that I’m starting to accelerate too late, because I really, really finished strong,” Hoffman told Race Results Weekly. For Hodgkinson, her gold medal was particularly sweet after taking silver to American star Athing Mu at both the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 World Athletics Championships, and silver again earlier this month to Kenya’s Mary Moraa at the Commonwealth Games. Wielgosz held off the hard-charging Hoffman by just 5/100ths of a second to get the bronze, 1:59.87 to 1:59.92. From the starter’s gun, she moved into the lead and never relinquished it. Coming around the final bend, Hodgkinson had the inside lane and started kicking. Hering, whose front-running drew massive cheers from the German crowd, started to fade and would finish seventh. “It would be quite obvious if I went to the front like I have been kind of doing all year. Down the backstretch, Hodgkinson asserted herself and took the lead at 600 meters.