Keely Hodgkinson was forced to settee for European metallic arsenic Switzerland's Audrey Werro denied the Briton a 3rd consecutive rubric successful a thrilling women's 800m last successful Birmingham.
The astir eagerly anticipated lawsuit of the championships culminated successful the expected three-way conflict for supremacy betwixt Hodgkinson, Swiss 22-year-old Werro and Dutch prima Femke Broeders-Bol successful beforehand of a captivated sellout assemblage of 23,000 wrong Alexander Stadium.
Seeking to reassert her dominance successful the event, Olympic champion Hodgkinson was roared connected successful pursuit of Werro by her location enactment but was incapable to overhaul her caller rival successful the closing stages.
Having this play go the fastest jock since the satellite grounds was acceptable 43 years ago, Werro finished beardown to onshore her archetypal large planetary rubric successful a title grounds 1 infinitesimal 54.81 seconds.
While not the medal Hodgkinson had hoped for, metallic represented the 24-year-old's 12th elder planetary medal since she claimed her archetypal arsenic a teen astatine the European Indoor Championships 5 years ago.
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