{"id":490494,"date":"2025-10-11T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490494\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:08:12","slug":"keely-hodgkinson-athlos-800m-win-in-new-york-for-british-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/490494\/","title":{"rendered":"Keely Hodgkinson: Athlos 800m win in New York for British runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keely Hodgkinson ended her 800m season with victory at the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday evening.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Olympic champion, who won bronze at the World Championships<\/a> last month, cruised to an impressive win in one minute 56.53 seconds in what was only her sixth race in a season blighted by a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Fellow Briton and world silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell was second again in 1:58.33, while St Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney (1:58.57) was third.<\/p>\n

“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, 23.<\/p>\n

“The atmosphere out there is crazy so it was really, really fun.”<\/p>\n

The women-only meet packed Icahn Stadium in its second year, bringing a party atmosphere to traditional track, with live music and Tiffany & Co. crowns replacing traditional winners’ medals.<\/p>\n

The 23-times tennis major winner Serena Williams, who is married to Athlos founder Alexis Ohanian, was on hand to present the winners with their crowns.<\/p>\n

Last year’s winners took home $60,000<\/a> (\u00a344,603) – one of the largest prize purses in athletics.<\/p>\n

The event also attracted some of the sport’s biggest names, as Kenya’s three-time Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Faith Kipyegon won the mile, crossing the finish line in four hours 17.78 minutes.<\/p>\n

American Brittany Brown, the 200m bronze medallist from last year’s Paris Olympics, won the 100m and 200m double.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keely Hodgkinson ended her 800m season with victory at the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-490494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}