World Indoor Tour Final: Keely Hodgkinson, Dina Asher-Smith & Neil Gourley break British records

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Britain's Keely Hodgkinson, Dina Asher-Smith and Neil Gourley acceptable caller nationalist records astatine the World Indoor Tour Final successful Birmingham.

Hodgkinson, 20, the Olympic 800m metallic medallist, shaved 2 hundredths of a 2nd disconnected her ain record.

Asher-Smith, 27, lowered her 60m grounds successful qualifying earlier beating team-mate Daryll Neita successful a high-quality final.

Gourley, 28, bushed Josh Kerr's nationalist 1500m people aft storming past his team-mate successful the last lap.

Laura Muir claimed a 4th British triumph of the time successful the women's 1,000m, but fell good abbreviated of her extremity to interruption Maria Mutola's long-standing satellite record.

The location assemblage were fixed plentifulness to cheer, however, with satellite stars Grant Holloway, Jereem Richards and Gudaf Tsegay besides claiming notable wins successful the last of 7 World Indoor Tour events.

For Hodgkinson and Gourley, victories acceptable them up perfectly for the European Indoor Championships, which instrumentality spot successful Istanbul from 2-5 March.

Asher-Smith, the 2019 satellite 200m champion, volition present ore connected her preparations for the outdoor season.

The Briton maintained her good caller form, clocking 7.03secs successful the archetypal 60m vigor to shave different hundredth disconnected the record she acceptable successful Germany successful January.

Asher-Smith went connected to triumph the last comfortably, successful 7.05, 1 tenth of a 2nd faster than Neita successful 2nd place. The United States' Destiny Smith-Barnett was 3rd and Jamaica's Shericka Jackson, the reigning satellite outdoor 200m champion, was fourth.

Hodgkinson claimed her 3rd triumph successful 3 races to instrumentality the wide World Tour rubric for the women's 800m, which guarantees her introduction into the 2024 World Indoor Championships successful Glasgow.

The Leigh-based athlete, who volition spell to Istanbul arsenic defending European champion, came location 25m wide of the tract to triumph successful 1 infinitesimal 57.18 seconds.

Britain's Gourley besides laid down a marker earlier the Europeans aft knocking 0.38sec disconnected the British grounds clip acceptable by Kerr successful Boston past year.

The Scot's winning clip of 3:32.48 was the world's second-fastest clip indoors this year. Kerr, who has chosen not to vie successful the Europeans, led until the last thigh but faded severely to decorativeness fifth.

Muir's effort astatine beating Mutola's satellite grounds clip of 2:30.94 successful the women's 1,000m, which was acceptable successful 1999, faltered successful the last fewer laps arsenic the 29-year-old finished successful 2:34.53.

Ethiopia's satellite indoor 1500m champion Tsegay, who holds the satellite grounds astatine that distance, got person to mounting a caller satellite champion clip successful the women's 3,000m.

The 26-year-old, who is besides helium reigning satellite 5,000m champion, was good up of the gait astatine the halfway people but yet missed retired by conscionable 9 hundredths of a second, finishing successful 8mins 16.69secs.

United States' Holloway produced the fastest clip successful the satellite this twelvemonth - 7.35 - to triumph the men's 60m hurdles. The American bushed compatriot Daniel Roberts by 0.12, clocking a clip that was conscionable six hundredths disconnected his ain satellite record.

And Richards, Trinidad & Tobago's reigning satellite indoor 400m champion, held disconnected a complaint from the United States' Vernon Norwood to triumph by 0.18sec successful a clip of 45.74. Ireland's Jack Rafferty was 3rd successful 46.66.

What they said

"It was a truly challenging twelvemonth for maine successful 2022 but - and I cognize this sounds brainsick - it was not truly physical. It was much arsenic a quality being," said Asher-Smith, who mislaid her grandmother, Sislyn, earlier the 2022 World Championships successful Eugene.

"We're each humans, we each person the ups and downs of big beingness and that's conscionable it really. So each I'm hoping for present is casual - nary large beingness events for similar the adjacent 2 years and that'll beryllium great.

"But I'm blessed and I'm conscionable truly excited for the outdoors. I'm truly excited to spell into training. I've got a fewer days disconnected present past we're going to get acceptable for 100m and 200m."

Muir, who stated that breaking Mutola's 1,000m indoor grounds was 1 of her main targets for 2023, said: "I was going to spell for it careless and I consciousness similar I'm successful the signifier to tally the benignant of time, it's getting that cleanable and it's truthful hard to get right."

Hodgkinson also revealed vexation astatine not mounting a caller satellite grounds successful the women's 800m: "I've had clip to calm down. It's a British grounds truthful I can't complain, but you cognize erstwhile you are susceptible of truthful overmuch more. I'm a spot gutted. I felt I was connected gait but successful the past 50m it got distant from me."

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