The coaching companions and rivals will go face to face over two laps within the London Stadium on July 18.
World indoor 1500m champion and Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell, the world silver medallist over 800m outside, will be part of M11 observe membership coaching accomplice Keely Hodgkinson on the 800m begin line on the Novuna London Athletics Meet on Saturday July 18.
Hunter Bell is the British document holder over 1500m with 3:52.61 however her expertise over two laps is indeniable. Highlights in 2025 included two Wanda Diamond League wins and a nationwide title however most notably, a podium end and lifelong better of 1:54.90 on the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo to go second on the British all-time listing and ninth-fastest on the planet.
On the 2024 occasion, having solely dipped beneath the two-minute mark for the primary time earlier that yr, Hunter Bell completed third in a private greatest on the time of 1:56.28 behind GB team-mates Hodgkinson – the race winner in a gathering document and nationwide document of 1:54.61 – and Jemma Reekie (1:55.61). It was simply the second race in historical past during which eight girls had bettered 1:58.
On yr later she moved away from the sector within the house straight to take the win in 1:56.74 in entrance of a sell-out 60,000 crowd – proving that the tactical work she’d performed in coaching to maximise her 800m potential was paying off.
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“The London Diamond League is the very best day on the calendar,“ she says. „Successful in entrance of a house crowd final yr was insane and I can’t wait to come back again this yr with the ladies to see how briskly we will go. It’s going to be epic.”
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