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It was a golden day for Great Britain at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, as Keely Hodgkinson and Jazmin Sawyers stole the show with golds. Hodgkinson has been a dominant performer in 800m this season, and carried the form to Turkey as she defended her title. Ad For Sawyers, it was a maiden major title and saw her set a world-leading jump of seven metres.
Keely Hodgkinson entered the European Indoor Championships fully aware of her status as the undisputed favourite, so far ahead of the rest of the field that probably only a mistake could have toppled her. The pressure that comes with excellence did not faze her at all. On Sunday she comfortably defended her European indoor title and further underlined her dominance over the continent.
For British track and field fans there are few sights more thrilling than Dina Asher-Smith going supersonic. It is not just her speed that rips the breath away, it is the economy of movement and sense of imperious power as she glides clear of a world-class field.
When Laura Muir and Keely Hodgkinson gaze at their trophy cabinets from the past 18 months they see Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth medals staring back at them. At the World Indoor Tour final in Birmingham on Saturday, however, their sole focus will be on hunting down world records.
LIEVIN, FRANCE: Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma shattered the 25-year-old world indoor 3,000m record on Wednesday by more than one second at the Lievin meeting as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis won his third successive pole vault event.
Keely Hodgkinson must win the Olympics or World Championships to cement her status as British athletics’ next superstar, according to American icon Michael Johnson.
Keely Hodgkinson must win the Olympics or World Championships to cement her status as British athletics' next superstar, according to American icon Michael Johnson. Hodgkinson, 20, announced herself on the world stage by winning 800m silver at the Tokyo Olympics last year while still a teenager before matching that result in this summer's World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
Jake Wightman can spearhead the next generation of superstar British athletes after a sensational summer of middle-distance running saw him crowned world champion, claims Michael Johnson. Wightman, 28, shocked the field in July by storming past Norway's Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take 1500m glory in Oregon having finished a distant 10th in Tokyo last year.