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[1]
Atherton, Greater Manchester, England[2]
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)[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
2024 Paris 800 m
2020 Tokyo 800 m
World Championships
2022 Eugene 800 m
2023 Budapest 800 m
2025 Tokyo 800 m
Diamond League Finals
2021 Zurich 800 m
European Championships
2022 Munich 800 m
2024 Rome 800 m
European Indoor Championships
2021 Toruń 800 m
2023 Istanbul 800 m
European U23 Championships
2023 Espoo 400 m
European U20 Championships
2019 Borås 800 m
European U18 Championships
2018 Győr 800 m
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2022 Birmingham 800 m
Updated on 10 October 2025

Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002) is an English middle-distance runner. She is the reigning Olympic champion at 800 m after winning the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In total, she has won two Olympic medals having also won silver at the same distance in the 2020 Games. She is also a two-time European champion in the 800 m and has won two silver medals and a bronze in the same event at World Championship level. Hodgkinson is the world record holder over the 800 m indoors, and she also holds the world indoor best for the 600 metres. She is both the British record holder and the sixth fastest woman ever over 800 m outdoors.

At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, 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. Hodgkinson became a European champion in 2022 and 2024 and a European indoor champion in 2021 and 2023. She was also the 2021 Diamond League finals 800 m champion.

At the 2024 Summer 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 was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2024, and was awarded an MBE for contribution to athletics in the 2025 New Year Honours list.

Early life and background

Hodgkinson was born on 3 March 2002 in Atherton, Greater Manchester, and brought up there.[4][5] She attended Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley, where she was friends with fellow pupil and future England footballer Ella Toone.[6][7] Hodgkinson also attended Loughborough College in Leicestershire.[8] In 2021, she began a degee in criminology at Leeds Beckett University, but later dropped out to focus on her athletics career.[9][10]

Athletics career

2011‍–‍17: Early career

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

Hodgkinson joined Leigh Harriers at the age of nine and won county championships in 800 m, 1200 m, 1500 m, and cross-country races.[11] She initially swam with Howe Bridge Aces Swimming Club before devoting herself fully to running.[12][13]

In 2012, aged ten, she competed at the British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships in London. Hodgkinson finished second in the 500 m run and after the 50 m swim she ended in eighth place overall.[12] Her father encouraged her to focus on athletics rather than swimming, and she was also inspired by British heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill winning the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[14][15]

In 2013, she became the first Leigh Harrier to claim the individual U11 girls' title in both the South East Lancashire League and the Red Rose League.[16] She ran her 16th consecutive undefeated race two weeks later in the Mid-Lancashire Cross Country League at U11 level.[17] At U13 level, she became Cheshire and Manchester champion in both the 800 and 1200 m.[4] In 2014, Hodgkinson won all 13 of her track races (across 800–1500 m events) as well as several cross country competitions.[4] In the U13 category, she took her third Greater Manchester title on a cross country course.[18]

At the age of 13, Hodgkinson had to limit training and starts due to a Mastoidectomy to remove a tumour on her ear, which left her 95% deaf in that ear, followed by knee issues.[19][20] The following year she finished third in the U15 800 m events at both the ESAA English Schools' Championships and England Athletics Championships.[4] In 2017, she raced the 800 m in the U17 age category, and won her first gold medal at the England Championships, setting a new lifetime best,[4] before adding the 1500 m UK School Games title.[21]

2018–2020

In June 2018, aged 16, Hodgkinson became the England U20 800 m champion.[22] 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.[23] 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][24] At the Believe Sports Awards in Wigan, she was named as the Sports Achiever of the Year.[25] In June 2019, Hodgkinson competed at the England U20 Championships, placing second, and she earned bronze at the European U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden.[26][27] During 2019, Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows began coaching her in Manchester.[28]

In February 2020, 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.[29][30] Later that month, she went on to take the national senior 800 m title at the British Indoor Championships.[31] At the end of August, she competed at the Göteborg GP in Sweden, recording a new personal best of 2:01.78.[32] The 2020 season was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the 2020 Summer Olympics postponed until the following year.[33] In September, Hodgkinson claimed the British outdoor title to become the youngest winner in the competition over 800 m since 1974.[31][34] 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.[35]

2021: Olympic silver medallist and Diamond League title

In Vienna, Hodgkinson became the first British woman to set a world U20 record since Zola Budd 36 years previously.[36] She won the 800 m for the second consecutive year with a time of 1:59.03. This marked the first time that she had completed the event in under two minutes, and also broke the world indoor U20 record. She shaved two seconds off the previous best set by Ethiopia's Meskerem Legesse in 2004.[37] Hodgkinson competed at the 2021 European Indoor Championships, four days after her 19th birthday. She became the second youngest British winner in the competition's history (after 400 m runner Marilyn Neufville in 1970), and also the youngest ever women's 800 m European indoor champion after her success in Toruń, Poland.[38][39]

In May, Hodgkinson secured 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.[40][41] 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 to seal victory.[42][43] 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.[44]

External images
2020 Tokyo Olympics
Surprised Hodgkinson after final race with Athing Mu (left, 1st) and Alexandra Bell (right, 7th)

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Hodgkinson won the silver medal behind Athing Mu, taking almost two seconds off her personal best with a time of 1:55.88. Hodgkinson also broke Kelly Holmes' 26-year-old British record of 1:56.21 in the race,[45] as well as setting new European U20 and U23 records.[46] After the race, Hodgkinson acknowledged that the Olympics' postponement had benefitted her, explaining: "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."[47][48]

On the Diamond League circuit, Hodgkinson came second in Brussels,[49] and ended the season with victory at the Zürich final in September, winning the Diamond League 800 m title.[50][51]

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 roughly matched the £15,000 a year that she had missed out on. This allowed Hodgkinson to attend warm-weather training in Florida.[52][53] In October 2021, British Athletics announced that Hodgkinson would receive lottery funding.[54]

2022: European champion and world silver medallist

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."[55]

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 indoor world record was set by Jolanda Čeplak. Her time set a new British indoor record, the fastest ever mark by a teenager, and the sixth-fastest indoor mark of all time.[56][57] In March, Hodgkinson headed to the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. She suffered a quad injury during her warm-up for the event and was forced to withdraw.[58]

On 21 May, Hodgkinson competed at the Diamond League event in Birmingham, claiming victory in the 800 m.[59] She then had further success in the Diamond League, claiming victories in Eugene,[60] Oslo,[61] as well as finishing runner-up behind Mary Moraa in Stockholm.[62]

In the 800 m at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Hodgkinson claimed silver after finishing 0.08 s behind Mu. Hodgkinson recorded a season's best time of 1:56.38.[63][64] Less than two weeks later, at the Commonwealth Games, she claimed another silver medal, this time finishing behind Moraa.[65] 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.[66][67]

In September, she finished in fifth place at the Zürich Diamond League final.[68] 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 as the second quickest time for the year outdoors.[69][70]

2023: World silver medallist

In January, Hodgkinson set a new world indoor record time in the less frequently run distance of 600 metres with a time of 1:23.41 in Manchester. She eclipsed Olga Kotlyarova's record set in 2004 by 0.03 s.[72][73] She then won three events on the World Indoor Tour in the 800 m category. 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 British indoor record with 1:57.18.[74][75][76] She concluded her indoor season with a successful defence of her European 800 m 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, saying: "This one is definitely for him and everyone at home. He had a lot of belief in little 10-year-old me."[77][78]

In the 2023 Diamond League, Hodgkinson clinched victory at the Meeting de Paris in June, breaking her British record by 0.11 s in a time of 1:55.77.[79][80] She also won the 400 m 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.[81] She then finished second to Moraa in the 800 m at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting in Switzerland.[82] Having been appointed co-captain of the British team 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.[83] She later missed the Anniversary Games Diamond League meeting in London due to illness.[84]

At the World Championships in Budapest, Hodgkinson passed Mu in the final straight, but could not overhaul Moraa at the finish, ultimately finishing second in the 800 m with a time of 1:56.34, around 0.3 s separating her from both the champion Moraa (1:56.03) and third-placed Mu (1:56.61).[85] Hodgkinson finished runner-up to Mu in the Eugene Diamond League final, and improved on her own British record with a time of 1:55.19.[86]

2024: Olympic champion

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.[87] 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 Moraa with 150 metres remaining and claimed victory in a world-leading time for the year of 1:55.78.[88]

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.[89] In July, at the Diamond League meeting in London, Hodgkinson finished in first place and also set a new British 800 m record time of 1:54:61. Her time made her the sixth fastest woman in history over the distance.[90][91] Hodgkinson also 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.[92]

At the 2024 Summer 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."[93][94] A large mural was then painted at Stevenson Square in Manchester to honour her achievement.[95] On 21 August, she announced she would miss the rest of the season due to injury.[96][97] At the end of the year, Hodgkinson stated her ambition to break the women's 800 m world record held by Jarmila Kratochvílová who ran 1:53.28 in 1983.[98]

2025: World Championship bronze medallist

In February, Hodgkinson intended to try and break Čeplak's 23-year-old indoor 800 m world record at the Keely Klassic, a new competition named after her, but was forced to withdraw two days prior due to a hamstring tear.[99][100] Hodgkinson took part in her first race in over a year 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.[101][102]

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."[103] In September, she won a bronze medal in the 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo after finishing behind Lilian Odira and Georgia Hunter Bell.[104] The following month, she was the 800 m champion at the Athlos meet in New York.[105]

2026: Indoor 800 m world record

On 14 February, she improved her own British 800 m record to 1:56.33 at the British Indoor Championships,[106] before setting a new indoor 800 m world record of 1:54.87, in Liévin, France, on 19 February 2026. The latter time was just under a second quicker than the previous record set by Čeplak on 3 March 2002, the day of Hodgkinson's birth.[107][108] The following month, she set a new personal best indoor time of 51.49 in the 400 m in an invitational race in Glasgow.[109]

Personal life

Hodgkinson has a keen interest in fashion and attended London Fashion Week in 2024. Speaking about her approach to combining her athletics with her love for fashion, Hodgkinson has stated: "I get ready for a track meet as if I'm going out. It's like a stage' you're preparing to perform."[110][111]

Hodgkinson has shared how she suffered a bout of depression 'from the comedown' following her silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. She explained that she had taken up playing the piano to help her deal with it.[112] She is a supporter of Premier League football club Manchester United, and was invited onto the pitch at Old Trafford after winning Olympic gold in 2024.[113]

Achievements

Information taken from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[1] Last updated on 18 March 2026.

Personal bests

Event Time Venue Date Notes
400 metres 51.61 Citta di Savona, Italy 15 May 2024
400 metres indoor 51.49 i Glasgow, United Kingdom 01 March 2026
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 1:54.87 i Liévin, France 19 February 2026
1500 metres 4:30.00 Loughborough, United Kingdom 1 September 2017 (age 15; also 4:29.05 in 2018 Mx[4])
Junior achievements
800 metres 1:55.88 Tokyo, Japan 3 August 2021 AU20R, former AU23R & British record, 4th U20 woman all time[114]
800 metres indoor 1:59.03 i Vienna, Austria 30 January 2021 AU20R,[note 1] 2nd U20 female mark all time[115]

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Time Notes
Representing  Great Britain /  England
2018 European U18 Championships Győr, Hungary 1st 800 m 2:04.84 CR[23]
2019 European U20 Championships Borås, Sweden 3rd 800 m 2:03.40 PB[27]
2021 European Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 1st 800 m i 2:03.88 [38]
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 2nd 800 m 1:55.88 AU20R AU23R NR[45]
2022 World Championships Eugene, OR, United States 2nd 800 m 1:56.38 SB[63]
Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 2nd 800 m 1:57.40 [65]
European Championships Munich, Germany 1st 800 m 1:59.04 [66]
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 800 m i 1:58.66 [78]
European U23 Championships Espoo, Finland 3rd 400 m 51.76 PB[83]
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 2nd 800 m 1:56.34 [85]
2024 European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 800 m 1:58.65 [89]
Olympic Games Paris, France 1st 800 m 1:56.72 [93]
2025 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 3rd 800 m 1:54.91 [104]
Athlos New York, USA 1st 800 m 1:56.53 [105]

Circuit wins and titles

800 metres wins, other events specified in parentheses.

Progression

Key:   Lifetime best

Year 800 m
indoor		 Notes World rank 800 m Notes World rank
2017 N/a (age 15) 2:06.85 211 – 632 – 472
2018 N/a 2:04.26 71 – 212 – 225
2019 N/a 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 2] NiR 1 1:56.38 2
2023 1:57.18 i AU23iR[note 2] NiR 1 1:55.19 AU23R NR 2
2024 N/a 1:54.61 AU23R NR 1
2025 N/a 1:54.74 1*

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

National championships and competitions

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.[4]

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 N/a
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

2018
  • Believe Sports Awards: Sports Achiever of the Year[25]
  • British Athletics Supporters Club: BASC Young Female Athlete of the Year[117]
2021
2023
2024

Notes

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

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