Keely Hodgkinson CRUSHES indoor 800m world record - 1:54.87

Spectacular effort from gun to tape. She's in the form of her life.

Better and better

Amazing running form too. Everything is just right.

Werro was in a weird position. Tried to go along, but paid the price in the last lap. Staying back with the rest would have been weird too. This was a not a right race for her.

The faster that Keely runs, the less likely that Athing Mu will want to come back and try to beat her.

Werro's best option would have been to run by herself. Trying to keep up with Keely didn't make sense.

Splits 26.8/29.21/29.05/29.81. That first 200 is pretty wild.

Impressive given her outdoor PR of 1:54.61. You have to imagine she's gearing up for shot at the outdoor WR, but man... 1:53.28 feels like an eternity away. Its just so damn fast.

If she shows low 50point speed (or even high 49s?!) at world indoors I think she'll get it though.

Keely only ran a very fast first 200 because she had to get in front of Werro. Not sure what Werro was thinking. She knew that Keely was in much better shape than her and that Keely was going for the world record. Werro knew she couldn't stay with Keely but she just felt like messing with Keely. That was uncalled for.

A few years ago sub 1:55 for a female (who wasn't a biological male) also seemed "so damn fast" but now several women have run sub 1:55. Super spikes and bicarb have really helped the 800 times come down.

Fantastic race and record.

Sadly, she'll only hold this for one year (Femke is on it).

I wouldn't say an "eternity". Can take off half a second per 400m for being indoors, which would put Keely at 1:54.8 in a regular sized stadium. From there it's 0.5s to the WR. Tough, but doable - nobody has been closer.

We should let Femke Bol run more than one 800 race before we start predicting world records for her.

Don't give credit to malice, what can be explained by simple incompetence. Werro is still very young and awkward in her ways.

Well, no biological female has been closer. "Female" Caster Semenya could have ran faster than 1:53.28 if Semenya had wanted to, but Semenya sandbagged and purposedly didn't want to break the world record.

Werro has been running in very high level races for several years now. This is not her first time in a big race.

Oh dear. It's far more likely that Femke is now considering returning to the 400m hurdles. And, staying healthy permitting, Keely will break the outdoor record.

Exactly. Totally unnecessary for Werro to go out that fast. The rest of the field was nowhere near the lead two and the pacer. Keely clearly calculated that staying ahead of Werro at 200 even at that pace was better than having to eventually go around her. Naturally one wonders if Keely could have gone even faster if she could have started in 27.5.

You're an idiot. Racism has nothing at all to do with incorrect pacing. Runners of all colors run dumb first 200s.