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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
David Charlesworth

Keely Hodgkinson backed by Denise Lewis to benefit from year-long injury absence

Keely Hodgkinson will be going for gold in the World Athletics Championships (Martin Rickett/PA) - (PA Archive)

Keely Hodgkinson’s year-long absence from athletics could work in her favour when she tries to add a world title to her Olympic gold, according to Dame Denise Lewis.

A hamstring tear sustained in February followed by a couple of setbacks meant Hodgkinson was kept out of action from her crowning moment at Paris 2024 to a Diamond League meeting in Silesia last month.

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