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Keely Hodgkinson

Keely Hodgkinson
MBE
Hodgkinson at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey
Personal information
Full nameKeely Nicole Hodgkinson
Born (2002-03-03) 3 March 2002 (age 23)[1]
Atherton, Greater Manchester, England[2]
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[3]
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
England
SportAthletics
Event(s)800 metres, 400 m
ClubLeigh Harriers
Coached by
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
World finals
Highest world ranking1st (800 m, 09.2021)
Personal bests
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 800 m
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 800 m
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Eugene 800 m
Silver medal – second place 2023 Budapest 800 m
Diamond League
First place 2021 800 m
First place 2023 800 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich 800 m
Gold medal – first place 2024 Rome 800 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2021 Toruń 800 m
Gold medal – first place 2023 Istanbul 800 m
European U23 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Espoo 400 m
European U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Borås 800 m
European U18 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Győr 800 m
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 800 m
Updated on 5 August 2024

Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002)[5] is an English middle-distance runner. She is the reigning Olympic champion at 800 m after winning the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In total, she has won two Olympic medals having won silver at the same distance in 2021. She is also a two-time European champion in the 800 m and has won two silver medals in the same event at World Championship level. She is both the British record holder and the sixth fastest woman ever over 800 m.

At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, while simultaneously breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. Hodgkinson proceeded to win silver medals at several championships; the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games. At European level, Hodgkinson went one step higher, becoming a two-time European champion in 2022 and 2024 and a two-time European indoor champion from 2021 and 2023. She also holds the world indoor best for the 600 metres and was the 2021 and 2023 Diamond League 800 m champion.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Hodgkinson won the gold medal in the Women’s 800 m. In the final, she led the race from early on, and then broke away in the last 100 metres to cross the line ahead of Tsige Duguma and reigning world champion Mary Moraa. Hodgkinson is also a four-time British national senior champion. She was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2024, and she was awarded an MBE for contribution to athletics in the 2025 New Year Honours list.

Early life and background

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Hodgkinson was born on 3 March 2002 in Atherton, Greater Manchester, and brought up there.[6] Her mother Rachel[7][8][9] trained for a time with Leigh Harriers.[10] Hodgkinson attended Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley and Loughborough College in Leicestershire.[11][12] In 2021, she completed the first year of a criminology degree course at Leeds Beckett University, but later dropped out to become a full-time athlete.[4][13][14]

Hodgkinson is friends with football player Ella Toone with whom she was at school.[15]

Early and youth career

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External images
image icon (Hodgkinson, left) – Leigh Sports Village - twitter
image icon 2021 Tokyo Olympics - Leigh Journal

Hodgkinson joined Leigh Harriers at the age of nine, "winning county championships in 800 m, 1200 m, 1500 m, and cross-country races",[16] but initially swam with Howe Bridge Aces Swimming Club[17] before devoting herself fully to running.[18][19]

She first made an impression aged barely 10, in 2012. Competing among 70 finalists at the British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships in London, Hodgkinson finished second in the 500 metres run with a personal best (1:34.28) and also swam 50 m with a new best as well for an overall eighth place.[20] Her father encouraged her to focus on athletics, and she was inspired by British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill winning the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.[21][22]

From that point, Hodgkinson won many age-group titles and minor medals, culminating in her winning at age 16 European Under-18 and England U20 titles, and, after an injury-affected winter, European U20 bronze a year later. In 2013, still aged 10, she already had an unbeaten streak of 14 running events. In winning a one-mile cross country course she became the first Leigh Harriers girl to claim the individual U11 girls' title in both the South East Lancashire League and the Red Rose League.[23] About two weeks later, she ran her 16th undefeated race, winning a 2 km course with the lead of 45 seconds.[24] On the track, as a first-year U13, she became double Greater Manchester champion at the 800 and 1200 metres.[5]

In 2014, the then 12-year-old won all her 13 track races (across 800–1500 metres events, with a 4:47 best at the latter) as well as many cross country competitions.[5] She took her third Greater Manchester title on a 2.75 km cross country course and later defended both her track titles, breaking championship records – the latter of which had stood since 1985.[25][26] Her U13 1200 m best was bettered only in 2019, remaining, as of 2023, the third-fastest on the respective British girl's all-time list.[5]

In 2015, she had to limit training and starts due to a mastoidectomy surgery to remove a tumour on her ear, which has left her 95% deaf in this ear, followed by problems with knees.[27] The following year she finished third in the U15 800 metres events at both the ESAA English Schools' Championships and England Athletics Championships. Around that period she began to specialise in this distance while still running cross country.[5][28][4]

" Keely almost quit athletics aged 15 but was cajoled back on to the track by her dad Dean, and the promise of a new pair of snazzy shoes."[29]

Hodgkinson rebounded the following year, in 2017, when the then 15-year-old raced the 800 metres already in the U17 age category. Although initially fourth at the ESAA Championships, she went on to take her first gold medal at the England Championships, setting a lifetime best (2:06.85),[1] before adding the 1500 m (UK) School Games title.[30]

2018–2019

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In June 2018, at age 16, Hodgkinson became the England U20 800 m champion.[31] The following month, she won the gold medal at the European Athletics U18 Championships held in Győr, Hungary, breaking the championship record in the process with a time of 2:04.84.[32][4] In August, she won the England U17 title before setting a competition record time of 2:04.89 on way to victory at the (UK) School Games.[1][33] Named by Wigan Borough Council as Sports Achiever of the Year, her season's best ranked her, at the time, fifth on the British U17 female all-time list (2:04.26).[5][34]

At the beginning of 2019, her athletics particpation was affected by shin problems. She was able to compete at the England U20 Championships in June, placing second, and she earned bronze at the European U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden.[35][36]

Senior career

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2020

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On 1 February, aged 17, Hodgkinson set the second-fastest female U20 performance ever in the indoor 800 m at the Vienna Indoor Classic. She set a European U20 record of 2:01.16 to triumph on her international debut at senior level, just 0.13 s off the world U20 record. She broke Kirsty Wade's long-standing British U20 record of 2:02.88 set in 1981, and Aníta Hinriksdóttir's European record for the age group set in 2015 by 0.4 seconds.[37][38] Later that month, she went on to take her first national senior title at the British Indoor Championships. At the end of August, she debuted outdoors at international senior level in Gothenburg, Sweden, recording a new personal best as she fibnished behind the 2019 world silver medallist Raevyn Rogers.[39] The 2020 season was heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the 2020 Summer Olympics postponed until the following year.[40] In September, Hodgkinson claimed the British outdoor title to become the youngest winner over 800 m since 1974.[41][42] She improved her personal best again with a time 2:01.73, when ending her season with a fifth place finish in Rovereto, Italy three days later.[43]

2021: Tokyo Olympic silver medallist

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2021 proved to be a breakthrough year for Hodgkinson, and it began in Vienna with her becoming the first British women to set a world U20 record since Zola Budd 36 years previously.[44] Having arrived in Vienna after Covid-induced travel complications, she won for the second consecutive year with a time of 1:59.03 – her first result under 2 minutes, making her the first junior woman in history to break this mark in the indoor 800 m. She shaved two seconds off the previous best set by Ethiopia's Meskerem Legesse in 2004.[45] Her record did not last for long, as Hodgkinson's contemporary, Athing Mu, improved the new record the following month to 1:58.40.[46]

Hodgkinson made her debut in a senior major championship at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, four days after her 19th birthday. She became the youngest British winner at the event for more than half a century and the youngest ever women's 800 m European indoor champion after a win in Toruń, Poland. Only Marilyn Neufville has been a younger UK gold medallist when winning the 400 metres in 1970 at age 17, while Hodgkinson was younger than fellow Briton Jane Colebrook, who became the then-youngest European 800 m champion in 1977.[47][48]

In May, Hodgkinson secured her first major international outdoor victory at the Golden Spike in Ostrava, Czechia, recording a sub-two minute mark outdoors for the first time after clocking 1:58.89. She broke by almost a second the UK junior record which had been held by Charlotte Moore. Her time was also the European junior record, beating Birte Bruhns' mark of 1:59.17 set in 1988.[49][50] At the end of June, she sealed a place in the British team for the Tokyo Olympics by defending her title at the 2021 British Athletics Championships. The competition also doubled as the Olympic trials, and she overcame Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie on the final straight to seal victory.[51][52][53] A week later, she set a British U23 record by lowering her personal best to 1:57.51 when finishing fourth at the Stockholm Diamond League meet.[54]

"If the Olympics had been last year I wouldn't have been here, but suddenly it's given me a year to grow and compete with these girls."

– Hodgkinson on her silver medal at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.[55]
External images
2020 Tokyo Olympics
image icon Surprised Hodgkinson after final race with Athing Mu (left, 1st) and Alexandra Bell (right, 7th)

Before the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in August, she ranked eighth on the season's list and fifth among women entered.[56][57] At the games, she placed second in her heat and then won her semi-final with the fourth-fastest time of the semi-finals. In the final, Hodgkinson won the silver medal, taking almost two seconds off her personal best and almost six seconds off her pre-2021 best with a time of one minute 55.88 seconds. She was beaten by Athing Mu who clocked 1:55.21. Hodgkinson broke Kelly Holmes' 26-year-old British record of 1:56.21 in the race, and also beat the European U20 best (1:57.45) which had been set in 1978.[58][59][60] She also set a continental U23 record.[61]

Hodgkinson won her first Diamond Trophy (800 m) in 2021. Pictured (L) at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels.

On her return to the Diamond League circuit, Hodgkinson came fifth in Eugene, then second in Brussels,[62] and ended the season with a 1:57.98 victory at the Zürich final in September, winning her first Diamond League race and first Diamond Trophy.[63][64][65]

Hodgkinson's early athletics career had been funded by her parents, and in 2020, she was not named by British Athletics as a recipient of £15,000 of lottery funding. Businessman, Barrie Wells, who had previously helped fund 18 athletes to the 2012 London Olympics, stepped in and matched the £15,000 a year that she had missed out on. This allowed Hodgkinson to attend warm-weather training in Florida, and she is now one of Wells Trust's athlete ambassadors.[66][67] In October 2021, British Athletics announced that Hodgkinson would receive lottery funding.[68]

2022: World silver medallist

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In February 2022, Keely Hodgkinson recorded the fastest indoor 800 m time by a woman in 20 years.

At the beginning of the season, Hodgkinson revealed that she was targeting medals at the World Indoor Championships in March as well as three major outdoor championships in the summer: the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and the European Championships. Stating her aims, Hodgkinson said "I’d love four major medals. It’s definitely physically possible to do all four. Mentally, we’ll see. The world outdoors is No 1 and I really want to do the Commonwealths, as it is a home Games. With the Europeans we’ll see how the body and mind are coping."[69]

Hodgkinson opened her athletics year on 19 February with the fastest indoor 800 m performance by a woman in 20 years with 1:57.20, at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. It was the quickest mark since the precise day she was born, when the world record was set. Her time set a new British indoor record, the fastest ever mark by a teenager, and the sixth-fastest indoor mark of all time.[70][71] In March, Hodgkinson headed to the World Indoors in Belgrade. She suffered a quad injury during her warm-up for the event and was forced to withdraw.[72]

Only 0.08 s separated the winner (C) and the runner-up (R) at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the US.

On 21 May, Hodgkinson competed at the Diamond League event in Birmingham, claiming victory in the 800 m.[73] She then had further sucess in the Diamond League, claiming victories in Eugene (with a world leading time of 1:57.72),[74] Oslo (beating international teammate Muir into second),[75] as well as finishing runner-up behind Mary Moraa in Stockholm.[1]

In the 800 m at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Mu became world champion, finishing 0.08 s ahead of Hodgkinson, who claimed silver, with a season's best time of 1:56.38. Moraa finished third. Hodgkinson reflected, "I'm definitely a little bit annoyed but being on another world podium in my second year of being in the professional world of athletics is something I should be proud of."[76][77] Less than two weeks later, at the Commonwealth Games, she claimed another silver medal, this time finishing behind Moraa.[78] Later in August, she secured her first major senior outdoor gold, winning the 800 m at the European Championships held in Munich in a time of 1:59.04. She finished half a second clear of Rénelle Lamote and remarked afterwards "I’m just happy to finally be on top of the podium."[79][80]

In September, she finished in fifth place at the Zürich Diamond League final.[81] Hodgkinson's time at the Birmingham indoor event earlier in the year, made her the world leader for the season with a nearly 1.3-second advantage, while her result from the World Championships final ranked second outdoors that year.[82][83]

2023

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Hodgkinson won her third European title at Istanbul 2023 to extend her streak of sub-two-minute races to 19.[84]

"This one is definitely for him. He had a lot of belief in little 10-year-old me [...]. I hope to make him really proud and I know he will be up there watching [...]."

– Hodgkinson dedicated her third European title to her first coach in athletics, who had died before the championships.[85][86]

Hodgkinson got her 2023 campaign off to a good start on 28 January at the Manchester Regional Arena of Manchester. She set a new world indoor record time in the less frequently run distance of 600 metres with a time of 1:23.41, beating Olga Kotlyarova's record set in 2004 by 0.03 s.[87][88] Hodgkinson then won for the first time on the World Indoor Tour in the 800 m category, prevailing in all her races. She took victories in Toruń (meet record of 1:57.87), Liévin in France and the Tour Final in Birmingham, where she improved her own UK indoor record with 1:57.18.[89][90][91] She rounded off her indoor season with a successful defence of her European title at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul. She dedicated the win to her first coach in athletics, Joe Galvin, who had died a few days earlier.[92][86]

Outdoors, the 21-year-old clinched victory at the Paris Diamond League on 9 June, breaking her British record by 0.11 s in a time of 1:55.77.[93][94] Working on her speed, she competed in and won the 400 metres at the England U23s with a new personal best time of 52.24. The time was also a championship record, eclipsing the mark of 52.43 set by Christine Ohuruogu in 2005.[95] She then lost in the 800 m to Moraa at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting in Switzerland.[96] Having been appointed UK team co-captain at the European U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland, she competed in the 400 m. Hodgkinson went on to secure bronze, clocking a new personal best of 51.76.[97][1] Later she missed the Anniversary Games Diamond League meeting in London, in what would have been her debut at the Olympic Stadium, due to an illness.[98]

At the World Championships in Budapest, the "Big Three" claimed all the medals. Hodgkinson managed to pass Mu in the final straight to defeat her for the first time, but could not overhaul Moraa at the finish, finishing second in 1:56.34 with around 0.3 s separating her from both Moraa (1:56.03) and Mu (1:56.61). Afterwards, Hodgkinson said "Another podium, another medal, that’s definitely a positive.”[99] Hodgkinson was victorious at the Eugene Diamond League final, front-running for almost the entire distance to claim her second Diamond Trophy and improve on her own UK record with a time of 1:55.19, an almost 0.6 s progress. Her rival Mu, who competed as an ineligible national wild card, set a new US record time of 1:54.97.[100][101]

2024

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Hodgkinson opened her 2024 season on 15 May, running a 400 m personal best time of 51.61 at a meeting in Savona, Italy. She finished second behind Ireland's Sharlene Mawdsley.[102] On 25 May, she competed in her first 800 m event of the season at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon. Hodgkinson overtook world champion Mary Moraa with 150 metres remaining and she claimed victory in a world-leading time for the year of 1:55.78.[103]

In June, Hodgkinson competed while suffering from illness at the European Championships in Rome. She held off Gabriela Gajanová to retain the title she had won two years previously. Speaking about the upcoming Summer Olympics after her European win, Hodkinson said "I’m super excited for Paris...The Olympic Games are so special, it's a huge opportunity to change your life and I’m just ready to go for it."[104] At the Diamond League meeting in London on 20 July, Hodgkinson set a new British 800 m record of 1:54:61 to become the sixth fastest woman in history over the distance.[105][106] On 7 July, Hodgkinson triumphed at the FBK Games in Hengelo, pulling away from Prudence Sekgodiso on the final bend to secure the victory in a time of 1:57.36.[107]

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Hodgkinson clinched the gold medal in the women's 800 m final with a time of 1:56.72. Tsige Duguma finished second in 1:57.15. Hodgkinson became the third British woman to have won Olympic gold at the distance, and the tenth British woman to win an athletics gold in the history of the games. Afterwards, Hodgkinson stated "I have worked really hard for the last year and I think you can see how much it meant to me when I crossed the line. I can't believe I have finally done it!"[108][109] On 21 August, she announced she would miss the rest of the season due to injury.[110][111] At the end of the year, Hodgkinson stated her ambition to break the women's 800 m world record held by Jarmila Kratochvilova who ran 1:52.28 in 1983.[112]

2025

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On 13 February, Hodgkinson intended to make an attempt to break Jolanda Ceplak's 23-year-old indoor 800 m world record at the Keely Klassic, a new competition named after her.[113] However, she was forced to withdraw two days prior to the meet, due to a hamstring tear.[114][115]

Hodgkinson took part in her first race since the Olympics at the Diamond League event in Silesia on 16 August. She won in a new 800 m world leading time for the year of 1:54.74, which was also her second fastest time ever.[116][117] Hodgkinson then secured back-to-back victories in the Diamond League with another victory on 20 August in Lausanne. Her time of 1:55.69 was a meeting record. After the race, Hodgkinson speaking about her comeback from long-term injury, stated "I couldn't have asked for a better start, I'm a bit in shock myself."[118]

Achievements

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Information taken from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[1] Last updated on 15 May 2024.

Personal bests

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Event Time Venue Date Notes
400 metres 51.61 Citta di Savona, Italy 15 May 2024
400 metres indoor 52.42 i Birmingham, United Kingdom 27 February 2022
600 metres indoor 1:23.41 i Manchester, United Kingdom 28 January 2023 World best
800 metres 1:54.61 London, England 20 July 2024 British record, fastest European this century
800 metres indoor 1:57.18 i Birmingham, United Kingdom 25 February 2023 AU23R[note 1] British record, 6th woman all time, fastest since 2002[119]
1500 metres 4:30.00 Loughborough, United Kingdom 1 September 2017 (age 15; also 4:29.05 in 2018 Mx[5])
Junior achievements
800 metres 1:55.88 Tokyo, Japan 3 August 2021 AU20R, former AU23R & British record, 4th U20 woman all time[120]
800 metres indoor 1:59.03 i Vienna, Austria 30 January 2021 AU20R,[note 2] 2nd U20 female mark all time[121]

International competitions

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Keely Hodgkinson interviewed at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
Year Competition Venue Position Event Time Notes
Representing  Great Britain /  England
2018 European U18 Championships Győr, Hungary 1st 800 m 2:04.84 CR
2019 European U20 Championships Borås, Sweden 3rd 800 m 2:03.40 PB
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 1st 800 m i 2:03.88
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd 800 m 1:55.88 AU20R AU23R NR
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 2nd 800 m 1:56.38 SB
Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 2nd 800 m 1:57.40
European Championships Munich, Germany 1st 800 m 1:59.04
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 800 m i 1:58.66
European U23 Championships Espoo, Finland 3rd 400 m 51.76 PB
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 800 m 1:56.34
2024 European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 800 m 1:58.65
Olympic Games Paris, France 1st 800 m 1:56.72

Circuit wins and titles

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800 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses.

Progression

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Key:   Lifetime best

Year 800 m
indoor		 Notes World rank 800 m Notes World rank
2017 — (age 15) 2:06.85 211 – 632 – 472
2018 — 2:04.26 5th UK U17 woman all time 71 – 212 – 225
2019 — 2:03.40 31 – 92 – 167
2020 2:01.16 i AU20iR 12 – 13 2:01.73 1 2 – 49
2021 1:59.03 i WU20iR 22 – 4 1:55.88 AU20R AU23R NR 22 – 2
2022 1:57.20 i AU23iR[note 1] NiR 1 1:56.38 2
2023 1:57.18 i AU23iR[note 1] NiR 1 1:55.19 AU23R NR 2
2024 — 1:54.61 AU23R NR 1
2025 — 1:54.74 1*

– World rank from World Athletics' Season Top Lists. 1U18 ranking, 2U20 ranking.

National championships and competitions

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Track results only. Hodgkinson competed also at the ECCA English Championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) with best place being fifth on a 5 km course in 2018, and at the cross country ESAA Championships (2016, 2017, 2018) with best place being second on a 3.8 km course also in 2018.[5]

Key:   National championships;   Other National level events

Year Competition Venue Position Event Time
2016 ESAA English Schools' Championships, U15 events Gateshead 3rd 800 m 2:13.08
England Championships, U15 events Bedford 3rd 800 m 2:12.53
2017 ESAA English Schools' Championships, U17 events Birmingham 4th 800 m 2:08.82
England Championships, U17 events Bedford 1st 800 m 2:06.85
(UK) School Games, U17 events Loughborough 1st 1500 m 4:30.00
2018 England Championships, U20 events Bedford 1st 800 m 2:04.41
England Championships, U17 events Bedford 1st 800 m 2:09.38
(UK) School Games, U17 events Loughborough 1st 800 m 2:04.89 GR
2019 England Championships, U20 events Bedford 2nd 800 m 2:05.77
2020 British Indoor Championships Glasgow 1st 800 m i 2:04.37
British Championships Manchester 1st 800 m 2:03.24
2021 British Indoor Championships Event cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic
British Championships Manchester 1st 800 m 1:59.61
2022 British Indoor Championships Birmingham 2nd 400 m i 52.42 PB
British Championships Manchester 5th 400 m 52.41 PB
2023 British Indoor Championships Birmingham —
England Championships, U23 events Chelmsford 1st 400 m 52.24 PB CR
British Championships Manchester 1st 800 m 1:58.26 SR

Honours and awards

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2018
2021
2023
2024

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Although European Athletic Association recognises under-20 and U23 records outdoors, it, however, acknowledges only U20 age category in indoor competitions.
  2. ^ World indoor under-20 record until 27 February 2021.

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