Keely Hodgkinson set sensational new target by athletics chief - 'I'd love to see that' Seb Coe is banking on Keely Hodgkinson to break athletics’ most notorious world record.
The 800m Olympic champion, 22, ran the sixth-fastest time ever this year and has made it clear she eventually wants to better Jarmila Kratochvilova’s 1:53.28, set in 1983.
And World Athletics boss Coe said: “I’d love to see that for all sorts of reasons, actually.
Hodgkinson’s national record of 1:54.61 may just be a little more than a second behind the Czech’s but that is a significant gap over two laps.
“A second is a lot in athletics, it’s a huge gap but she has the scope and ability and the coaching structure as well.
