'I'm a bit in shock' - Hodgkinson wins again in Lausanne

Keely Hodgkinson said she was "a spot successful shock" astatine her victorious return from wounded aft nan Olympic 800m champion recorded her 2nd triumph successful 5 days astatine nan Diamond League successful Lausanne.

Hodgkinson, 23, clocked 1 infinitesimal 55.69 seconds successful different connection capacity earlier adjacent month's World Championships, mounting a gathering grounds contempt miserable conditions successful Switzerland.

It comes aft Hodgkinson had ended a 376-day hold to compete for nan first clip since winning golden astatine Paris 2024 pinch a world-leading clip successful Silesia connected Saturday, pursuing a play decimated by injury.

Training partner Georgia Hunter Bell was 3rd successful Lausanne successful 1:57.55, down Switzerland's Audrey Werro (1:57.34).

Despite suffering 2 hamstring tears this year, which delayed her season-opener until 4 weeks earlier nan World Championships, Hodgkinson has wasted nary clip successful reasserting herself arsenic nan favourite for golden successful Tokyo.

The two-time world metallic medallist announced her return successful emphatic manner successful Poland astatine nan weekend, clocking nan quickest clip of 2025 - and nan ninth-fastest successful history - successful 1:54.74.

That was conscionable 0.13secs short of her life champion - nan British grounds she ran astatine past year's London Diamond League successful nan lead-up to her stunning Olympic triumph.

"I couldn't person asked for a amended start, I'm a spot successful daze myself," Hodgkinson told BBC World Service Sport.

"I train really difficult for moments for illustration this but erstwhile it each comes together it makes it other special."

Speaking astatine Tuesday's news conference, Hodgkinson teased that she "wouldn't norm out" going moreover faster successful Lausanne arsenic she sought to hone her race-day sharpness.

While nan conditions prevented that connected Wednesday evening, Hodgkinson erstwhile again proved a people supra her title arsenic she powered clear connected nan last thigh to declare different commanding win.

"Trevor [Painter - her coach] said to maine a fewer weeks agone 'you're really up of schedule, I wanted you to beryllium present by nan clip we're successful Tokyo' - truthful to beryllium present now is amazing.

"Hopefully we tin enactment patient and build connected apical of what we've got, and let's spot what tin happen."

This was besides Hunter Bell's last planned title earlier nan Olympic 1500m bronze medallist decides which arena she will target successful pursuit of different world podium.

Hunter Bell, besides coached by Painter and Jenny Meadows, has taken awesome Diamond League wins complete 800m successful Stockholm and London this season.

The 31-year-old, who collapsed nan British 1500m grounds to make nan Olympic podium connected her debut past summer, lined up pinch a individual champion of 1:56.28 successful nan 800m - nan arena successful which she shone arsenic a inferior earlier quitting nan athletics for 5 years.

She precocious met pinch British icon Dame Kelly Holmes, victor of 800m and 1500m golds astatine nan 2004 Olympics, for proposal connected attempting a imaginable double successful Tokyo.

"I wanted a spot quicker but it was difficult today, difficult to retrieve from nan title a fewer days ago," said Hunter Bell.

On her plans for Tokyo, she added: "I don't know, I'm going to determine this week. I'm moving retired of clip to make a decision. Every time I alteration my mind."

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for adjacent month's World Championships is group to beryllium announced connected Wednesday, 27 August.

Dina Asher-Smith says she has prioritised being successful a "nice, friends and focused environment" aft taking nan determination to return her training guidelines to London conscionable weeks earlier nan World Championships.

The 2019 200m world champion precocious moved location pursuing a play successful nan United States training nether coach Edrick Floreal, whose group includes Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred.

Speaking aft finishing 5th successful nan women's 200m successful Lausanne, Asher-Smith said she is presently receiving support from erstwhile coach John Blackie and Stephen Maguire, nan erstwhile method head of UK Athletics.

"I'm backmost successful London pinch group that I've worked with, peculiarly wrong British Athletics, for years and years," she said.

"For maine I conscionable had to beryllium successful an situation wherever I'm happy and I consciousness for illustration I tin build and activity done races and title plans successful a really focused measurement that useful for me. I'm really happy to person done that. I conscionable had to travel home.

"It was conscionable astir important for maine to beryllium successful a nice, friends and focused environment. Just being capable to tally free and attraction each time connected really accelerated you tin tally from A to B."

Asher-Smith ran 22.64 seconds and British team-mate Daryll Neita was seventh successful 22.73, arsenic American Brittany Brown won successful 22.23.

Britain's Zharnel Hughes clocked 10.09 seconds to decorativeness 5th successful a men's 100m title dominated by Jamaica's Oblique Seville up of Olympic and world champion Noah Lyles.

Seville crossed nan statement clear of nan title successful 9.87, arsenic Lyles vanished beardown to spot 2nd successful 10.02.

Max Burgin vanished 4th successful nan men's 800m aft going toe-to-toe pinch Kenyan Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi and world champion Marco Arop.

Burgin tied up successful nan closing stages but clocked 1:43.44 up of Canadian Arop, arsenic American Josh Hoey took triumph successful 1:42.82 up of Wanyonyi and Spain's Mohamed Attaoui.

Morgan Lake vanished 5th successful nan women's precocious jump pinch a first clip clearance astatine 1.86m earlier registering 3 failures astatine 1.91m.

Elise Thorner was 4th successful nan women's 3,000m steeple pursuit successful 9:21.74, while Alastair Chalmers placed 5th successful nan men's 400m hurdles successful 49.92 seconds.