Swiss star wins with third fastest time in history
Hodgkinson targets world record after defeat
On a wild summer’s night in Stockholm, a woman ran the quickest 800m since the darkest days of the cold war. But, staggeringly, her name was not Keely Hodgkinson.
Britain’s 800m Olympic champion had promised she was in personal best shape, and duly proved as good as her word. But she had no answer to the young Swiss star Audrey Werro, who swooped like lightning across a cloudless sky before crossing the line in 1min 53.98sec.
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