Hodgkinson stunned by Werro despite personal best | Flipboard

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Audrey Werro won the women's 800m at the Diamond League in Stockholm, recording the third fastest time in history. Keely Hodgkinson achieved a personal best but finished behind Werro.

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What happened

Hodgkinson stunned by Werro despite personal best Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson ran a personal best at the Diamond League in Stockholm but it was not enough to beat Audrey Werro.

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The Swiss athlete stunned Hodgkinson by winning in a time of one minute and 53.98 seconds - the third fastest women's 800m time ever and fastest in the world this … BBC News flipped this story into Top Stories•42d

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: the third fastest women's 800m time ever.

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Audrey Werro won the women's 800m at the Diamond League in Stockholm, recording the third fastest time in history. Keely Hodgkinson achieved a personal best but finished behind Werro.

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Claim 1: “the third fastest women's 800m time ever”

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Multiple sources explicitly state that the time of 1:53.98 is the third fastest women's 800m time in history. This is corroborated by World Athletics and other sports reporting sites.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_LiUNA!_150

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Audrey Werro (born 27 March 2004) is a Swiss track and field athlete. She won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2026 World Indoor Championships and the gold medal at the 2025 European U23 Cham…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Werro

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The women's 100-metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 and 31 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to an Olympic 50m swimming pool for the swimming events…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2024_Summer_Ol…

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Claim 2: “Audrey Werro... winning in a time of one minute and 53.98 seconds”

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Multiple independent sources confirm Audrey Werro won the race in Stockholm with a time of 1:53.98, including a report from World Athletics and a Reddit discussion citing the result.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Diamond League is the seventeenth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The competition was a revision to the top level athletics seri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Diamond_League

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 800 metres is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event, run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/800_metres

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Claim 3: “Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson ran a personal best at the Diamond League in Stockholm”

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Multiple independent sources, including BBC Sport and another web search result, explicitly state that Keely Hodgkinson ran a personal best at the Diamond League in Stockholm.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Keely Nicole Hodgkinson (born 3 March 2002) is an English middle-distance runner. She is the reigning Olympic champion at 800 m, having won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In total, she ha…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keely_Hodgkinson

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Claim 4: “fastest in the world this [year]”

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Evidence from World Athletics and other reports confirms the 1:53.98 time was the fastest women's 800m time in 43 years and the fastest of the current season (2026), as it is listed as the top performance in the context of the 2026 Diamond League.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The women's 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held over three rounds at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, on 18, 19 and 21 September 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_World_Athletics_Champions…

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