by The Keely Hodgkinson coache team said that it cannot exclude the oldest world record in the BBC of the year which broke the oldest world record in athletics from the year next.
The 22 -year -old man collected an 800 -meter silver surprise at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, then claimed gold in Paris this summer with the weight of world expectations on his shoulders.
Hodgkinson displayed a personal record of 1: 54.61 during the London meeting Diamond League in July, but will have to find another equipment to beat the Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova 1: 53.28, which is located for 41 years.
“I would not govern (2025),” said Jenny Meadows Trevor Painter, who alongside the partner of life and coach Jenny Meadows directs the M11 Track Club.
The painter and the meadows received the coach of the year during the BBC ceremony during a triumphant evening for the married couple, who also led to the British Olympic bronze medalists Georgia Bell and Lewis Davey.
Painter added: “Next year could be too early, because it’s a big jump and there are not many people at 1:54 and even less 1:53, but with the progress of the technology of Shoes and progress in track technology, and the progress of our growth in team and as a unit and pushing Keely, then yes.
“I mean, if the right race occurs and that it feels in a good mood today and become this world record (holder). »»
Meadows, who thinks that 2026 could be a better target, added: “We are definitely heading towards her. A few years ago, we would never have watched this world record thinking that it was possible, but now you are starting to become a little stunned and excited, but trying to be realistic at the same time.
“Gold is the only currency in which she wants to work now, and she has personal goals to win this world title. I think she looks at him as if it was really exciting, that we can physically go to the world record next year.
“1: 53.28 is always a large and large gap. I know Keely would like to see a 1:53, even if it is a 1: 53.99. »»
Many British now imagine “Queen Keely” Hodgkinson as a radiating athlete carrying the crown which she accepted from a fan after her Olympic triumph.
Her coaches have seen more nuances of a young woman than Meadows describes as having a personality “What you see is what you get”, a experienced business woman with an excellent sense of humor who “does not try not to be someone she is not ”.
Last winter, Hodgkinson lost 10 weeks of racing after a debilitating leg injury and was recalled Meadows: “(at the back of the training group, in tears. I had never seen Keely then … is not a person in tears.
A photographer even wondered if she went to Paris.
“People have seen the highlights, we saw the trip,” said Meadows, who even remembers Hodgkinson’s training comrades saying: “There is actually something really satisfactory and stimulating to see Keely Going through these dark moments.
The painter and meadows admit that M11 has been flooded with requests from more than 50 athletes, including “high -level” names.
Maintaining the good balance between group personalities remains essential, so that all perspectives are managed by current culture.
Meadows added: “It’s an ideal moment in Keely’s life and an ideal moment in our lives and careers. When Trevor was a younger coach, he would not have had this experience to have an athlete (like) Keely.
“We don’t really feel nervous when we look at Keely running. It is this level of composure that is innate. She sees things as exciting. She does not consider them precious, she considers them as a challenge.
“I think a lot of athletes have the potential, but there is a unique athlete that has just kissed him.
“She had to grow very quickly, to manage life outside athletics. And then she comes to athletics and simply thinks that “it’s my scene”. »»
