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Keely Hodgkinson has put Mary Moraa, Athing Mu and other 800m stars on notice as she set goals for next season, including winning more gold medals and going for the world records.
Keely Hodgkinson is looking to give Mary Moraa a run for her money as she plots big for next season and the coming years.
After winning the 800m gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games, the Briton has hopes to shatter the indoor and outdoor world records and her coaches explained that going forward, they will not be settling for bronze or silver medals.
This season, Keely Hodgkinson was unbeaten in the 800m and she managed to make a name for herself as one of the dominant 800m runners. One of her coaches, Trevor Painter, admitted that the outdoor world record would be hard to get but they are working around the clock to see how things will unfold.
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The record stands at 1:53.28, set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia at the 1983 World Championships. The indoor world record is 1:55.82, set by Jolanda Ceplak of Slovenia at the European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Her other coach, Jenny Meadows believes Hodgkinson has the ability to impress in the coming seasons, revealing that she had confidence in her abilities as a formidable 800m runner.
“I actually though no one is going to beat Keely…the only way she could lose is if she didn’t keep her composure but I had 100% faith that Keely could line up on that day and keep that composure,” Jenny Meadows told Sky Sports.
“There’s no silvers and bronzes, now we have to do gold all the way forward, we don’t want to take any backward step and I just hopefully think that Keely can dominate and we’ve got the indoor world record to go at and in the next couple of years we’ll go after the tough world record. I think she can do it.”
“If she’s got the leg speed to get closer to her rivals, then they can’t out strength her so it was magic. The indoor one is easier to get than the outdoor but we’ll have a crack of both and see what happens,” Trevor Painter said.
On her part, Keely Hodgkinson explained that deep down, she knew she would win the 800m at the Olympic Games and she was just waiting for the final to actualise her dream.
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At the Olympic Games, the 800m star clocked 1:56.72 ahead of Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia who managed a personal best time of 1:57.15. Mary Moraa rounded up the podium in a time of 1:57.42.
“I feel like I’m intuitive sometimes and I just felt like I’ve done all the work to make sure that this was like my year and I really felt like it was and even when I was in Paris, I felt like all I had to do was just not to get into any trouble, not fall over and I just felt like it was already kind of written and I do believe that some of our races are already written and you have to sort of let it all play out and that helped me stay calm through all the madness,” she revealed.
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