Keely Hodgkinson sits victory as she continues to come back from injury before the world athletics championships | Athletics news

Keely Hodgkinson continued her winning return to Lausanne as she is preparing for the world athletics championships; This occurs a week after the 23 -year -old has set a new record for the Diamond League meeting of 800m from a minute and 54.74 seconds, the second fastest period of Hodgkinson’s career

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson produced a dominant exhibition to win the 800 female meters during the Diamond League competition in Lausanne, with the British teammate Georgia Hunter Bell finishing third.

Hodgkinson, who recoveries an injury to the hamstrings, returned after an absence of 376 days in Silesia last weekend to establish a world series of one minute and 54.74 seconds, just behind his own national record.

With the world championships in Tokyo to come next month, Hodgkinson posed another marker when she made a solid finish in wet conditions to establish a new meeting record of 1: 55.69.

Hunter Bell was in second place in the house, but faded in the fence meters while Audrey Werro, Switzerland, cast it with clock 1: 57.55.

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Keely Hodgkinson says that she is in a good place after receiving her MBA and that she is fully focused on the world athletics championships in Tokyo, having returned from an injury to the hamstrings

Hodgkinson, 23, had looked at the control of the opening part of the race, sitting second behind the cardiac stimulator with the bell, which she took in 56.04 seconds.

With only caution Sekgodiso for a company before the 300 meters end, Hodgkinson quickly moved from South African to head towards another impressive victory.

“(I feel a little relieved,” said Hodgkinson BBC World Service Sport.

“I had the impression that this race was certainly going to be more a challenge, but to take a rhythm like that, you just have to run and forget everyone.

“I’m glad it paid. I feel like I really saved my 1:54 with a solid 1:55. We see improvements all the time, so I’m happy.”

Hodgkinson’s training partner, Hunter Bell, in the meantime, must now decide to have another crack at 800m in Tokyo or focus on the 1,500m, where she would seek to add to her Paris Olympic bronze medal.