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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Rachel Steinberg

Georgia Hunter Bell excited to step into limelight alongside Keely Hodgkinson

Hunter Bell won 1500m indoor gold in Poland ( Petr David Josek/AP) - (AP)

Newly-crowned world indoor 1500m champion Georgia Hunter Bell sometimes needs to remind herself that her own astonishing trajectory is just as worthy of celebrating as that of training partner Keely Hodgkinson.

The “sisters”, as Hunter Bell likens them, have plenty in common: British passports, coaching team Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, blonde ponytails, fiercely competitive spirits and – more recently – 800m podiums, including last year’s world final, with more head-to-heads planned for this season.

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