Keely Hodgkinson has potential to achieve 2025 ‘double whammy’ – Paula Radcliffe Paula Radcliffe believes Keely Hodgkinson’s potential is “stratospheric” as the Olympic champion targets a “double whammy” of success in 2025.
“She handled a meteoric rise when she won that Olympic silver medal in Tokyo and then won multiple silver medals which would have been a disappointment to many people,” Radcliffe, who has launched a new podcast – Paula’s Marathon Run Club – to advise people preparing for April’s London Marathon, told the PA news agency.
The 22-year-old is also targeting the world outdoor record of one minute 53.28 seconds set by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983, as well as Jolanda Ceplak’s world indoor mark of 1:55.82 at an event named the ‘Keely Klassic’ in Birmingham in February.
Hodgkinson won gold over 800 metres in Paris last summer and has now set her sights on doing the same both indoors and outdoors in this year’s world championships in Nanjing and Tokyo respectively.
“I think it’s that double whammy if you like, of getting that world outdoor title to go with the Olympic title and seeing what she can do time-wise as well.
