2 hours ago Keely Hodgkinson pulled retired of the 400m last astatine the UK Athletics Championships moments earlier Sunday's race.
The Olympic 800m champion has been competing implicit the shorter region successful a bid to amended her first-lap velocity and situation for the 800m satellite grounds this summer.
After qualifying from Saturday's heats, she warmed up for the last successful Birmingham but stepped disconnected the way close earlier the finalists were enactment nether starters' orders.
Hodgkinson looked affectional arsenic she stood astatine the broadside of the way earlier making her mode backmost wrong the Alexander Stadium.
The 24-year-old endured an injury-disrupted 2025 and her daze withdrawal connected Sunday comes 4 weeks earlier the London Diamond League meeting, which she had earmarked for a tilt astatine the 800m satellite record.
More to follow.
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