Liévin, France, Feb 19, 2026 (AFP) - Hodgkinson sets women's 800m world indoor record

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2026-02-20

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson broke the women's indoor 800m world record on Thursday at the meet in Lievin, France, with a time of 1 min 54.87sec. Hodgkinson shaved almost a second off the mark set by Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak of 1 min 55.82 sec on March 3, 2002 -- the day of Hodgkinson's birth. "Thank God. That was really fun, I was really looking forward to this," Hodgkinson told the crowd in the north of France. On Saturday, the 23-year-ol......

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