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Hodgkinson sets British best but Werro surges to 800m success in Stockholm

Swiss star wins with third fastest time in historyHodgkinson targets world record after defeatOn 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…

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