Keely Nicole Hodgkinson OLY[citation needed] (born 3 March 2002)[4][5] is an English middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 800 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[6]
At the age of 19, she won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995.[7] Hodgkinson proceeded to win silver medals at several championships; the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Continentally, Hodgkinson went one step higher, becoming a two-time European champion from 2022 and 2024 and a two-time European indoor champion from 2021 and 2023. She also holds the world indoor best for the 600 metres and was the 2021 and 2023 Diamond League 800 m champion, her first 'global' titles.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics she won the gold medal in the Women’s 800m. Defending champion Athing Mu of the United States failed to qualify for the Games. In the final, Hodgkinson led the race from early on, breaking away in the final 100 metres, and beating Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma and Kenya’s reigning World and Commonwealth Games champion, Mary Moraa.
She is a four-time British national senior champion.