After executing a seismic record-breaking run to smash Jolanda Ceplak’s close to 24-year ladies’s indoor 800m mark final month, Hodgkinson’s consideration was fastened firmly on gold in Torun.
This was the ultimate worldwide podium lacking from Hodgkinson’s intensive checklist of honours, after varied accidents prevented her from competing at every of the previous three editions.
The 24-year-old, who has 11 worldwide medals, has additionally been denied in her three makes an attempt to win world gold outside, attaining two silvers and one bronze.
The Briton mentioned that she hoped it might be “fourth time fortunate” indoors in 2026 – however she needed to overcome misfortune even earlier than starting her gold medal bid, after the airline which she had travelled with misplaced her package.
Together with her belongings delayed, Hodgkinson was compelled to finish her preparations in any person else’s spikes, which ended up giving her a blister.
However that didn’t have an effect on Hodgkinson as she dominated Friday’s warmth, earlier than cruising to victory in Saturday’s semi-final in a time sooner than all however one in all her fellow finalist’s private bests.
Switzerland’s Audrey Werro was the one contender with an indoor greatest time inside three seconds of Hodgkinson’s world file mark, and the Briton’s superiority was evident as she comfortably strode clear contained in the venue the place she achieved her first worldwide medal 5 years in the past.
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