{"id":44960,"date":"2026-07-17T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-diamond-league-2026-keely-hodgkinson-and-josh-kerr-world-record-bids-schedule-and-how-to-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:08:28","slug":"london-diamond-league-2026-keely-hodgkinson-and-josh-kerr-world-record-bids-schedule-and-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/london-diamond-league-2026-keely-hodgkinson-and-josh-kerr-world-record-bids-schedule-and-how-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"London Diamond League 2026: Keely Hodgkinson and Josh Kerr world record bids – schedule and how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Hodgkinson, 24, has had a frustrating outdoor season and has yet to win a Diamond League race this year, despite improving her own British record.<\/p>\n

After breaking the 24-year-old world indoor record in Lievin<\/a> in February, Hodgkinson captured her first world indoor title<\/a> in commanding fashion in March.<\/p>\n

Those successes raised hopes that Hodgkinson would be able to break Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova’s record time of one minute and 53.28 seconds, set in Munich in 1983.<\/p>\n

The Briton improved her national record to 1:54.33 in Stockholm in early June but suffered a shock defeat<\/a> by Switzerland’s Audrey Werro, who ran the third fastest 800m in history to win the race.<\/p>\n

Two weeks later, Hodgkinson pulled out of the 400m final<\/a> at the UK Athletics Championships in tears after feeling “a little twinge” moments before the race.<\/p>\n

After Werro improved her best time to 1:53.80 in Paris, Hodgkinson looked to kick-start her season at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene.<\/p>\n

However, competing with both knees strapped after a heavy fall in training, she finished in second place<\/a> behind world champion Lilian Odira.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, Hodgkinson is now fully fit and able to go all out to attack the world record in London.<\/p>\n

She will face tough competition in Ethiopia’s Olympic silver medallist Tsige Duguma and Dutch star Femke Broeders-Bol, who has made rapid strides since moving up from 400m to 800m this season and recorded a time of 1:55.60 in Paris.<\/p>\n

However, training partner and world silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell has pulled out of the meet because of a heavy cold.<\/p>\n

Rising British star Phoebe Gill, who reached the Olympic semi-finals in Paris aged 17, will make her Diamond League debut having battled back from an injury that ruled her out of the 2025 outdoor season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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