Olympic champion clocks meet file of 1:55.69 forward of Audrey Werro and Georgia Hunter Bell at Diamond League on Wednesday
Racing in solely her second race of the 12 months after a hamstring-related damage lay-off, Keely Hodgkinson didn’t handle to run fairly as quick as her season debut in Poland final weekend however she however regarded robust and sharp as she clocked 1:55.69 on the Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday (Aug 20).
The run in Lausanne comes 4 days after her spectacular season opener on the Diamond League in Silesia, Poland, the place she ran 1:54.74.
Right here in Switzerland, in moist and funky circumstances, she ran virtually a second slower however it was nonetheless a gathering file, wiping Maria Mutola’s 1:56.25 from 2002 from the books.
Runner-up Audrey Werro of Switzerland clocked 1:57.34 as Hodgkinson’s coaching associate, Georgia Hunter Bell, was third in 1:57.55 after Werro handed her within the closing metres.
Pacemaker Eveline Saalberg went by means of 400m in 56.04 with Hodgkinson a stride or two behind. Just like the race in Poland, Hodgkinson hit the entrance and commenced to attract away down the again straight as she went by means of 600m in 85 seconds.
At this stage Prudence Sekgodiso was nonetheless nearly involved with the Briton however the South African would later pay for it within the remaining 200m by fading to sixth in 1:58.76.
Hodgkinson is now anticipated to return into coaching forward of the World Championships in Tokyo subsequent month, until she might be tempted to race in Zurich in per week’s time.
For Hunter Bell, this race will certainly assist her determine whether or not to focus on the 800m or 1500m in Tokyo.
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Earlier within the night, Ethan Hussey gained the boys’s 800m B race in Lausanne in 1:45.80 with fellow Brit Alex Botterill third in 1:46.17.
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