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Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002)
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is an English athlete specialising in the
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. At the age of 19, she won a silver medal at the
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, breaking the British record set by
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in 1995 and a
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to become the fourth fastest under-20 woman of all time.
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Hodgkinson is the youngest ever 800m indoor champion, having won the race at the
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Hodgkinson was in her specialist event European under-18 champion in
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, and under-20 bronze medallist in
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At the age of 10, Hodgkinson preferred swimming to running, and competed in the former for her school. Her ******, however, advised her to run.
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In 2020, she became
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after winning the
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at the
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with a time of 2m 3.24s.
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On 30 January, Hodgkinson became the first British woman to set a world under-20 record for 36 years, breaking the 800m indoor mark in a time of 1:59.03 in
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Her record, however, stood for less than a month before being improved upon by
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with her time of 1:58.40, making Hodgkinson's record a
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On 7 March, she became the youngest ever
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champion in
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, Poland, clocking 2:03.88. She was younger at that time than fellow Briton
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, who took a gold medal at the
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in Spain.
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On 19 May, the 19-year-old broke by almost a second the UK's long-standing U20 outdoor record, winning the event in a time of 1:58.89 at the
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meet in
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, Czech Republic.
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On 4 July, Hodgkinson further lowered her PB to 1:57.51, finishing fourth at the
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in
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. She set her consecutive UK U20 record, country's U23 record, and became the second fastest European under-20 woman of all time.
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At the delayed
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in August, she took almost two seconds off her PB and almost six seconds off her 2020's PB with a time of 1m 55.88s to take a silver medal behind only Athing Mu. Hodgkinson broke the 1995
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' British senior record and a
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, becoming the fourth fastest under-20 woman of all time.
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