by Keely Hodgkinson’s path to celebrity has started young and should have many more moments of gold.
The 22 -year -old followed his brilliant Olympic title at more than 800 meters in Paris this summer by winning the prize for the sporting personality of the BBC year on Tuesday evening.
The display of Hodgkinson’s domination in the Stade de France was the most watched event of matches on terrestrial television and also led to the fourth winner of the Coveted BBC Gong winner.
It was the year when the atherton athlete in the Grand Manchester established himself as the best in the world of his event against a strong field.
Hodgkinson won the nine of its 800 meters this year and its 54.61 second minute time at the Diamond League meeting in London in July, made her the sixth fastest woman in history .
His sporting talent was obvious from an early age, Hodgkinson joining Leigh Harriers at the age of nine and, inspired by the Olympic victory of Jessica Ennis-Hill in 2012, quickly winning races in his region.
Aged 16, she became European champion under 18, while in 17 years old, she won her first senior national title at the British indoor championships.
She added the outdoor title later in 2020, then the following year, Hodgkinson broke into the dominant current with a series of prodigious performance.
She first broke two minutes for the first time to establish a world record under the age of 20, the first of a British woman in 36 years, before becoming European room champion.
Hodgkinson was the youngest winner of the 800m at the event in Poland, which marked its senior international debut.
That summer, she made her Olympic bow and won the silver medal, the shock look at her face one of the images of the games.
Still a teenager, the time of Hodgkinson of 1 min 55.88 seconds broke the British record of Lady Kelly Holmes.
Although this money was a triumph, it has become a color of frustration for Hodgkinson.
She finished second at the world championships in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Commonwealth 2022 games, with her rivals, Athing Mu and Mary Moraa conspired to keep it outside the first stage of the podium.
She remained unbeatable at European level inside and outside, but she did not hide that gold in Paris was the one she wanted.
That Hodgkinson not only faced the favorite label, but adopted it, adding its authority to the race of the first stage, marked it as one of the best in Great Britain.
And Hodgkinson is still in the early stages of his career, with many other opportunities for the history to come.
Next year, she will try the third time at the world championships the third time, while she also targeted the world record for Jarmila Kratochvilova, which has been located since 1983.
