Georgia Hunter Bell is eyeing an ambitious expanse of golden medals successful 2026 aft winning the 800m Commonwealth Games rubric successful Glasgow.
England's Hunter Bell dominated the tract to adhd Commonwealth golden to the 1500m satellite indoor rubric she won earlier this twelvemonth successful Poland.
The 32-year-old, a grooming spouse of 800m Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, volition besides contention astatine adjacent month's European Championships and the inaugural Ultimate Championships successful September.
"There are 4 opportunities to triumph golden this year," Hunter Bell told BBC Sport.
"I americium 2 golds down and 2 much to go."
Hunter Bell is blossoming aboriginal successful her career.
Having taken 5 years retired from the athletics earlier returning during the Covid-19 pandemic, she took 1500m bronze astatine the Paris Olympics earlier pipping Hodgkinson to metallic astatine past year's World Championships successful the 800m.
This, though, is her archetypal outdoor rubric - successful the lawsuit Hodgkinson is Olympic champion.
"Every medal is simply a landmark infinitesimal but my archetypal outdoor golden is huge," she said.
Hunter Bell and Kenya's satellite champion Lilian Odira were the favourites for this rubric aft Hodgkinson opted not to compete. The last was hardly a contention with Hunter Bell mounting the gait and past kicking connected with 200m to spell to triumph by much than a second.
Hodgkinson has alternatively taken clip disconnected earlier the European Championships successful Birmingham, which commencement connected 10 August.
Hunter Bell is lone moving successful the 1500m successful that event, denying the accidental to spot an intriguing contention betwixt the pair, but took her accidental successful her person and grooming partner's absence.
Though she said the triumph validates her determination to travel to Glasgow, she defended the determination of others to withdraw.
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