Keely Hodgkinson storms to 800m gold at European Indoor Champs
The 19-year-old took the title in a brilliant display of front-running
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Four days after her 19th birthday, Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson claimed gold in the 800m at the European Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland.
Hodgkinson surged to the front just 200m into the race and held off her more experienced rivals to cross the line in two minutes 3.88 seconds, with fellow Britons Ellie Baker and Isabelle Boffey finishing fourth and sixth, respectively. She is the second-youngest British athlete to win a gold at the Indoors, after Marilyn Neufville, who was 17 when she won gold in the 400m in 1970.