Dubbed the 'it girl' of athletics, the Tokyo silver medallist is looking to go one better in the French capital this summer
Keely Hodgkinson has featured in Vogue and been dubbed the “it girl” of athletics but the humble pride of Atherton is blocking out the noise ahead of Paris 2024.
Last year, she was honoured with a star on Wigan borough’s ‘Walk of Fame’ – not quite Hollywood but recognition of the town’s very own A-lister. As a youngster, the budding runner was inspired by Jessica Ennis-Hill at London 2012 and when her parents gifted her an iPad for Christmas, Hodgkinson asked for ‘Tokyo 2020’ to be etched onto its cover.
With Trevor Painter as her coach and 800m specialist and wife Jenny Meadows her mentor, Hodgkinson has always been in safe hands, from Tokyo and now to Paris. Hodgkinson was just 0.08 seconds behind Mu at the World Championships in Oregon and finally beat her on the same stage in Budapest last year, finishing second to Kenya’s Mary Moraa.
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