Keely Hodgkinson, the Olympic 800-metre champion, will be absent for the remainder of the 2024 track season due to her injury.
The 22-year-old athlete finished first in all nine of her 800-metre races in 2024, winning a gold medal in the Paris Games earlier this month. She was supposed to participate in September’s Diamond League finals in Brussels.
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Announcing she won’t be participating in any more competition this year, Hodgkinson posted on social media: “No more races for me… Unfortunately I picked up a small injury, but we achieved everything I had hoped to do this year, thank you for all the love and support… See you on the track next year.”Â
Hodgkinson’s 2024 performanceÂ
In 2024, Hodgkinson successfully defended her 800-metre European title and set a new national best in July in the London Diamond League, clocking one minute, 54.61 seconds. Her goal is to surpass the more than forty-year-old 800-metre world record for women, which stands at 1:53.28.
In September 2025, Hodgkinson hopes to win her first World Championship championship in Tokyo after taking home silver in the previous two years.
Source: BBC