After a superb Friday evening of indoor athletics that noticed British information fall to Dina Asher-Smith in Karlsruhe and Sam Atkin in Boston, the third nationwide mark in 24 hours was damaged as Keely Hodgkinson clocked 1:23.41 for 600m on the Bryggen Sports activities occasion in Manchester.
Solely this time the efficiency was additionally a world file – or ‘world greatest’ as statistical sticklers insist – as Hodgkinson beat recognised No.1 indoor mark in historical past of 1:23.44 set by Olga Kotlyarova of Russia in Moscow in 2004.
Pacemaker Issy Boffey, who had earlier gained the ladies’s 800m, went by 200m in 26.5 with Hodgkinson shut behind. The Olympic silver medallist then went by 400m in 54.59 earlier than ending strongly within the final lap.
“It feels fairly good,” stated Hodgkinson, who lives close to the assembly venue. “I didn’t publicise it however I used to be going for the world file.
“My household is right here, I prepare right here on a regular basis however I don’t like operating on my dwelling monitor as a result of I affiliate it with coaching and it simply feels bizarre however as we speak it was enjoyable.
“I got here right here to execute. I’ve been coaching to date. This winter has been powerful so I’m simply glad to return out and begin the season with a bang.”
The UK file of 1:25.81, in the meantime, stood to Jenny Meadows, who’s a part of Hodgkinson’s teaching crew with husband Trevor Painter and who was commentating on the motion on the SportCity venue.
“In a 600m it’s a case of ‘too quick and also you’ll die’ however ‘too sluggish and you may’t make up the bottom’, so myself and my coach (Painter) deliberate to run 54 by 400m after which attempt to hold on.”
Notably, Athing Mu has a better of 1:23.57 from 2019 and the American, who beat Hodgkinson to the Olympic and world 800m titles previously two years, is because of race 600m on the Millrose Video games in New York on February 11.
💥WORLD RECORD ALERT💥Keely Hodgkinson🇬🇧 breaks the 600m world indoor greatest clocking a 1.23.41 at her dwelling indoor monitor on Manchester @BryggenSports pic.twitter.com/UhUSQHcQHY
— Andreas Schoinarakis (@anshi400) January 28, 2023
Hodgkinson shouldn’t be as a result of race at Millrose. As an alternative she has a couple of races lined up in Europe earlier than a attainable defence of her European indoor title in Istanbul in early March.
If she does race in Istanbul, she is going to flip 21 throughout the championships and, judging by her 600m in Manchester, her lifetime bests of 1:57.20 (indoors) and 1:55.88 (open air) look like residing on borrowed time.
This was solely her first race of the 12 months after a spell of warm-weather coaching in South Africa.
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