Keely Hodgkinson 2.0 is fuelled by Hell Hill, an Oura ring and Kim Kardashian
Keely Hodgkinson broke the 800m indoor record last month (pictured) and is gunning for an outdoor mark, long-considered unbeatable, that has stood since 1984 - Sameer Al-Doumy/Getty Images Given how much she has conquered in her relatively young career, it is scarcely believable that Keely Hodgkinson is still searching for her first global title outside the Olympics. But that could change when the golden girl of British athletics lines up in Sunday’s 800 metres final at the World Indoor Championships in Poland. After a 2025 disrupted by injury, Hodgkinson has spent the winter reinventing herself in the build-up to the first major in the athletics calendar.
Last month she shattered the world indoor record in Lievin , shaving almost a second off the previous mark by clocking 1min 54. 87sec. Curiously, as she posed on a replica throne with a tiara placed on her head, those in Hodgkinson’s inner circle were already tempering their elation.
Yes, Keely Hodgkinson! 👏 ⭐️ This was the moment she broke the 800m indoor world record. pic.
twitter. com/qdWY7pNbq3 — BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 19, 2026 “This sounds completely crazy, but that was the bare minimum of what we expected,” Jenny Meadows , Hodgkinson’s co-coach, tells Telegraph Sport . “Keely’s in a lot faster shape than that.
We definitely think she could have gone half a second or a whole second faster. That makes me think, at the World Indoors, can she put her foot down and better that world record? ” Welcome to the world of “Keely 2.
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