Keely Hodgkinson could not deliver Great Britain’s first gold medal of the World Athletics Championships on the final day of action in Tokyo despite a valiant bid, ended up with bronze.
Olympic 800m champion Hodgkinson looked comfortable cruising through the first round and semi-finals in Japan and was the favourite to add a first world title to her collection, having ended up with silver at both of the previous two editions. But she ran out of steam in the final stages as Kenya’s Lilian Odira stormed to gold, with Hodgkinson’s teammate Georgia Hunter Bell pipping her to silver.
