During her brilliant young career, Keely Hodgkinson has usually shown speed and street smarts far beyond her years – and beaten almost whoever is put in front of her. But in Lausanne on Friday night, Britain’s Olympic and world silver medallist found herself boxed in, and then out-thought and outpaced, as she suffered her first defeat of the year.
It was one of those nights where nothing went to plan. Hodgkinson found herself in third at halfway in the 800m, and when she did push forward into second, she was blocked off by the Kenyan Mary Moraa, who kept moving across her lane to stop her passing. Having altered her pace, Moraa then sprinted clear to win in 1:57.43.
