Keely Hodgkinson ended her 800m season with victory on the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday night.
The Olympic champion, who received bronze on the World Championships final month, cruised to a powerful win in a single minute 56.53 seconds in what was solely her sixth race in a season blighted by a hamstring harm.
Fellow Briton and world silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell was second once more in 1:58.33, whereas St Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney (1:58.57) was third.
“I’ve barely raced this season so it was most likely much less of a battle for me to go on the market and wish to give it one thing,” mentioned Hodgkinson, 23.
“The ambiance out there’s loopy so it was actually, actually enjoyable.”
The ladies-only meet packed Icahn Stadium in its second 12 months, bringing a celebration ambiance to conventional monitor, with reside music and Tiffany & Co. crowns changing conventional winners’ medals.
The 23-times tennis main winner Serena Williams, who’s married to Athlos founder Alexis Ohanian, was available to current the winners with their crowns.
Final 12 months’s winners took dwelling $60,000 (£44,603) – one of many largest prize purses in athletics.
The occasion additionally attracted among the sport’s largest names, as Kenya’s three-time Olympic gold medallist and world file holder Religion Kipyegon received the mile, crossing the end line in 4 hours 17.78 minutes.
American Brittany Brown, the 200m bronze medallist from final 12 months’s Paris Olympics, received the 100m and 200m double.
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