Olympic champion ends injury-hampered season on high
World silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell takes second
Keely Hodgkinson won the 800m to end her injury-hampered season on a high at New York’s all-female Athlos meeting. Britain’s Olympic champion outclassed the field in her signature event, finishing in 1:56.53 in only her sixth race this season after missing several months of competition due to injury earlier this year.
Fellow Briton and world silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell took second in 1:58.33 on Friday night before a thronging Icahn Stadium. St Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney (1:58.57) was third.
“I’ve barely raced this season so it was probably less of a struggle for me to go out there and want to give it something,” said Hodgkinson, who claimed a bronze medal at last month’s World Championships in Tokyo after her campaign was marred by a hamstring injury. “The atmosphere out there is crazy so it was really, really fun.”
