Keely Hodgkinson

About Keely Hodgkinson

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 also won silver at the same distance in the 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. Hodgkinson is the world record holder over the 800 m indoors, the 2026 world champion indoors and she also holds the world indoor best for the 600 metres. She is both the British record holder and the sixth fastest woman ever over 800 m outdoors.

At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, 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. Hodgkinson became a European champion in 2022 and 2024 and a European indoor champion in 2021 and 2023. She was also 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 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.