Tokyo, Sept 21, 2025 (AFP) - Kenya's Odira upsets Hodgkinson to win world 800m gold

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2025-09-21

Kenya's Lilian Odira overhauled Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to win the women's 800 metres title at the world championships in Tokyo on Sunday. Odira set a championship record-- and a massively improved personal best time -- of 1min 54.62sec for victory, beating by 0.06sec the previous best set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of the then-Czechoslavakia in Helsinki in 1983. Georgina Hunter Bell took silver in a personal best of 1:54.90 in a photo fi......

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