Werro causes shock in Stockholm as she beats Hodgkinson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson ran a personal best at the Diamond League in Stockholm but it was not enough to beat Audrey Werro.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Swiss athlete stunned Hodgkinson by winning in a time of one minute and 53.98 seconds – the third fastest women’s 800m time ever and fastest in the world this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hodgkinson, competing in her first outdoor 800m race of the season, was narrowly behind in a British record of 1:54:33 while American Roisin Willis was third in 1:57:56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was also a shock for Armand Duplantis as the Swedish pole vault star suffered his first defeat in 40 events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hodgkinson has targeted the world record this year and the 24-year-old Briton\u00a0smashed the world indoor record in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And although she ran her fastest 800m time since July 2024 – 1:54.61 at the Diamond League meeting in London – Werro took more than a second off her previous best (1:56.64).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 22-year-old set the pace during a first lap of 55.54 seconds and although Hodgkinson hit the front with 300m remaining, Werro cruised past her just after they turned onto the home straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It was a quick one, a really interesting race,” said Hodgkinson. “When Audrey went off I was like ‘just chill’, but massive respect to her. That was a great race and it will motivate me more in training to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hodgkinson finished seventh in a\u00a0rare outing over 400m on Thursday\u00a0and plans to compete over 800m in Eugene before the Diamond League meeting in London on 18 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I was a little bit apprehensive coming in, not quite knowing exactly where I was with the 800m, because we have been doing some 400 training and are going to put together the 800m now,” she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “But it makes me excited because I can build on this great start. It’s still very early. It’s good to have a run in your legs because you can learn what you can do better but overall I am quite happy with that race because I made the right decisions, but Audrey was just better on the day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duplantis is beaten in the Diamond League for the first time in three years<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Olympic and world champion Duplantis suffered his first Diamond League defeat in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March, the 26-year-old broke the world record for the 15th time, with a jump of 6.31m slightly north of Stockholm in Uppsala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the best he could muster on Sunday was 5.80m, second to Australia’s Kurtis Marschall (5.90m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I felt I was pretty unfocused, not ready to compete at the top level,” said Duplantis, who is getting married next week. “I feel bad for my fans and family but I am not that mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We have a saying in Sweden that says you are either lucky in games or in love, and in some strange way I think there’s some message or silver lining in this that says something about the commitment that I am about to make in my marriage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was one local win in the men’s discus for Daniel Stahl, with the world champion’s throw of 69.60m beating Australia’s Matthew Denny (69.02) and Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh (67.67).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Britain’s Lawrence Okoye was eighth with 64.02, some way short of his season’s best (71.88).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the women’s 100m, Britain’s Amy Hunt ran a personal best 10.97 seconds to finish second to America’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden. Dina Asher-Smith was sixth in 11.24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n British sprinter Jeremiah Azu was disqualified after a false start in the men’s 200m, which was won by American Kenneth Bednarek in 19.87 seconds, with South Africa’s Sinesipho Dambile second in 20.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GB’s Elise Thorner was second in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, finishing almost 12 seconds behind Tunisia’s Marwa Bouzayani, who won in a meeting record eight minutes and 59.28 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlie Dobson was fifth in the men’s 400m, won by South Africa’s Zakithi Nene in 44.48 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The men’s 800m was won by America’s Cooper Lutkenhaus in a season’s best one minute 42.70 seconds, with GB’s Ben Pattison (1:43.70) and Jake Wightman (1:44.39) fourth and seventh respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n American middle-distance runner Yared Nuguse outlasted 19-year-old Australian Cam Myers to snatch victory in the men’s 1500m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was another meeting record in the women’s shot put with the Netherlands’ Jessica Schilder registering 20.89m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Werro causes shock in Stockholm as she beats Hodgkinson Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson ran a personal best at the Diamond League in Stockholm but it was not enough to beat Audrey Werro. 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