Keely Hodgkinson launches her own indoor athletics event - with BBC in talks to broadcast it - and targets breaking world record in attempt to revolutionise the sport
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Keely Hodgkinson has announced the launch of her own indoor athletics meeting as she looks to use her platform to revolutionise the sport. The newly crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year will stage the inaugural ‘Keely Klassic’ track event in Birmingham in February, with the Beeb already in talks to broadcast it.
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The meeting will mark Hodgkinson’s first race since winning Olympic gold in Paris in August and she will attempt to break the 800 metres world indoor record, which was set on the very day she was born. But the 22-year-old’s bigger aim is to help attract a younger audience to athletics and she wants her event at the Utilita Arena to be ‘an experience like no other’ for fans.
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The Keely Klassic is set to be an hour-long show, with around nine races involving top track stars wearing new kit without bibs, and with live music and celebrity appearances. It will take place on February 15, a week before the British Indoor Championships at the same venue, with the intention of becoming an annual event.
Keely Hodgkinson was crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Tuesday night. The 22-year-old has announced the launch of her own indoor athletics meeting set to take place in February. The race will be Hodgkinson's first since claiming Olympic gold in the 800m in Paris this summer.
