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Updated: March 7, 2021, 7:31 pm
Keely Hodgkinson clinched gold for Great Britain in Torun (Darko Vojinovic/AP)
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Keely Hodgkinson led from the front to claim 800 metres gold for Great Britain on the final day of the European Indoor Championships in Torun.
Four days after her 19th birthday, Hodgkinson held Polish pair Joanna Jozwik and Angelika Cichocka at bay to become Britain’s youngest European Indoors champion since 1970.
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen looked to have taken the title in 3:37.56 from home favourite
Marcin Lewandowski with the 1-2-3 the same as at Glasgow 2019.
A DQ decision against the Norwegian for stepping off the track then saw Lewandowski – before a subsequent successful appeal from Norway ensured Ingebrigtsen did indeed win another European title.
Neil had to contend with a bit of pushing on shoving right at the start but did work his way forward to fifth place at one stage over the course of the race.
But he didn’t have the finish he wanted on the final lap as other athletes came through. Welshman