Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson achieved one of the strangest world record improvements in athletics history over 800 m at the indoor meeting in Liévin, France.
In 1:54.87 minutes, the Briton was 0.95 seconds faster than Jolanda Ceplak at the previous indoor record, which had been held by the Slovenian since the day of Hodgkinson’s birth on March 3, 2002.
Hodgkinson’s world record run had already been announced last Saturday. At the meeting in Birmingham, the 23-year-old, who won Olympic gold in the double stadium round in Paris in 2024 and the European Championship title for the second time in a row in Rome in the same year, set a British record in 1:56.33.