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Rachel Steinberg

World Athletics Championships: Georgia Hunter Bell pips Keely Hodgkinson to 800m silver

Double podium: Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell - (Martin Rickett/PA Wire)

Georgia Hunter Bell pipped training partner and Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to an 800 metres silver medal by one hundredth of a second on the final night of action at the World Athletics championships in Tokyo.

The British duo were in gold and silver medal position - led by Hodgkinson - on the home straight until Kenyan Lilian Odira surged past them both to take gold in a championship record 1min 54.62sec, leaving the British runners to battle each other for second.

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