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The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle in Torun

Keely Hodgkinson leads British medal hopes at world indoor championships

Keely Hodgkinson celebrates holding a world record sign
Keely Hodgkinson says she is looking forward to the world indoor championships after breaking the women’s 800m world record in February. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images

Due to a fault in their plane’s GPS, the British team for the world indoor championships arrived at their hotel in Torun late on Wednesday night. Perhaps they should have asked Keely Hodgkinson to guide them. After all, she knows this place better than most, and she is absolutely locked on reaching her target – a first world gold medal – in Poland this weekend.

“I’m looking forward to it and this last month has been great,” she says on the eve of the championships, which begin on Friday morning. “I couldn’t ask to be in a better position to be honest.”

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