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Hodgkinson’s coaches targeting world record
Sports Personality of the Year winner aiming to make history in near future
Keely Hodgkinson receives the award for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 during the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards held at MediaCityUK, Salford, December 17, 2024
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KEELY HODGKINSON’S coaching team say they cannot rule out the newly crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year breaking athletics’ longest-standing world record as soon as next year.
The 22-year-old collected a surprise 800 metres silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, then claimed gold in Paris this summer with the weight of the world’s expectations on her shoulders.
Hodgkinson posted a personal best of 1:54.61 at the London Diamond League meet in July but will have to find another gear to beat Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova’s 1:53.28, which has stood for 41 years.
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