Keely Hodgkinson: Briton ready to start outdoor season with a 'bang' at Paris Diamond League

"Hopefully I can put on a good show. I'm feeling good, training has been going really well.

"I'm ready to kick off the season and start it with a bang."

The Leigh athlete was in unstoppable form indoors, improving her own British 800m mark and setting a women's 600m world record as she began her World Championships preparations.

Her sights are now firmly set on Budapest, where in August she will aim to upgrade her world silver after finishing eight hundredths of a second behind American Athing Mu in Eugene last summer.

"I forget [the 600m world record] even happened this year, it feels so long ago. But it was a great marker to get down," Hodgkinson said.

"I feel like this year I've worked even harder than last year," she added. "We're training harder and hopefully, when the time comes and I'm in peak form near the end of the summer, something special can happen.

"Until then, I'll keep working."

Hodgkinson's personal best of one minute 55.88 seconds is the second fastest in the Paris field, behind American Ajee Wilson (1:55.61).

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