Meet Olympic gold medalist and Sports Personality Of The Year contender KEELY Hodgkinson shocked the world in 2021 when she won silver at the Tokyo Olympics at just 19, before going one better at Paris 2024 and bringing home gold.
Keely soon showed an aptitude for sport, joining her mum's Leigh Harriers running club aged nine, while also swimming for the Howe Bridge Aces.
By 2019, Keely had transitioned from indoor to outdoor events and won the British outdoor title aged 18, becoming the youngest to ever do so.
She has emerged as the favourite to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 — here's everything you need to know about the champion runner.
She finished second in the 500m running event and eighth in the swimming 50m — it was after this that her father encouraged her to focus full-time on running.
