Keely Hodgkinson
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Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002) is an English middle-distance runner. She is the reigning Olympic champion at 800 m after winning the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In total, she has won two Olympic medals having won silver at the same distance in the delayed 2020 Games. She is also a two-time European champion in the 800 m and has won two silver medals and a bronze in the same event at World Championship level. She is both the British record holder and the sixth fastest woman ever over 800 m. At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, while simultaneously breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995. Hodgkinson proceeded to win silver medals at several championships; the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games. At European level, Hodgkinson went one step higher, becoming a two-time European champion in 2022 and 2024 and a two-time European indoor champion from 2021 and 2023. She also holds the world indoor best for the 600 metres and was the 2021 Diamond League finals 800 m champion. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Hodgkinson won the gold medal in the Women's 800 m. In the final, she led the race from early on, and then broke away in the last 100 metres to cross the line ahead of Tsige Duguma and reigning world champion Mary Moraa. Hodgkinson is also a four-time British national senior champion. She was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2024, and was awarded an MBE for contribution to athletics in the 2025 New Year Honours list.