The Olympic 800m champion produced the quickest ever two-lap mark by a feminine athlete within the month of October
After spending most of her 2025 season on the sidelines, Keely Hodgkinson ended it in some fashion by comfortably successful the 800m on the Athlos assembly in New York Metropolis (October 10).
The Brit, who opened up her season in late-August due to damage, nonetheless regarded fairly recent off the again of final month’s World Athletics Championships and ran a gathering report of 1:56.53.
“I’ve barely raced this season so it was in all probability much less of a battle for me to go on the market and wish to give it one thing,” Hodgkinson mentioned afterwards.
It was additionally the quickest ever 800m by a feminine athlete within the month of October, bettering China’s Lang Yinglai, who clocked 1:57.62 in 1997.
Going into the ultimate 200m, Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter-Bell and Natoya Goule-Toppin have been all vying for the victory however the latter two may do nothing as quickly because the Olympic champion kicked for the end.
Hunter-Bell edged out Hodgkinson to the world 800m silver medal in Tokyo – the pair clocked 1:54.90 and 1:54.91 respectively – however she was a distant second right here and ran 1:58.33. Saint Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney positioned third with 1:58.57.
There have been a spate of record-breaking performances on the second version of the Athlos NYC assembly and it was no shock that Religion Kipyegon produced considered one of them.
The triple Olympic and five-time world champion ran the quickest ever outside mile by a feminine athlete on US soil, clocking 4:17.78 within the Large Apple. She was pushed by Gudaf Tsegay for lots of the race and the Ethiopian got here dwelling second in 4:19.75.
Tara Davis-Woodhall, simply at some point after competing within the lengthy leap qualification at Occasions Sqaure, gained the ultimate in spectacular fashion at Icahn Stadium.
The reigning Olympic and world champion as soon as once more produced a clutch leap to safe the victory and recorded a finest mark of seven.13m (0.1) . To place that into perspective, it equalled her personal world lead within the occasion and was the identical distance that noticed Davis-Woodhall prime the rostrum in Tokyo.
The standout athlete from your complete assembly was Brittany Brown, finishing the 100m/200m double and strolling away with $120k in prize cash. The Olympic 200m bronze medallist clocked 10.99 (1.4) within the 100m after which, even within the chilly late-season circumstances, recorded a private finest within the 200m with 21.89 (1.9).
Olympic 100m hurdles champion Masai Russell opened up proceedings on the observe with a 12.52 (2.3) victory. Marileidy Paulino, who went third on the 400m all-time record with 47.98 in Tokyo, beat Salwa Eid Naser to the Athlos title and ran 50.07.
Based by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, the ladies’s-only observe and area occasion attracted a few of the greatest stars within the sport for the second yr in a row.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who formally introduced her retirement this week, was additionally a visitor of honour.
Athlos can be increasing to a team-based ladies’s observe and area league with a number of meets in 2026.
