Tokyo means the world to Hodgkinson

GOLD WOULD BEAT PARIS JOY

- From Charlie Bennett

KEELY HODGKINSON admitted she thought injury would wreck her bid for World Championship gold and claims success in Tokyo would trump her Olympic triumph.

Hodgkinson is looking to complete a rare set of 800m medals by adding the world crown to her golds last year in Paris and the European Championships in Rome.

But a hamstring tear sustained in February, followed by a couple of setbacks, meant Hodgkinson was kept out of action until running a world leading time last month in Poland.

The 23-year-old is looking to upgrade world silvers from Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023 and has even spoken about beating Jarmila Kratochvilova’s world record set 42 years ago - the oldest in the sport.