Summary

  • Watch live BBC Two coverage of World Indoor Athletics Championships (UK only)

  • Great Britain win three golds in 28 minutes to finish event with four medals - their best haul at a world indoors

  • Georgia Hunter Bell started gold rush with 1500m triumph for first world title

  • Molly Caudery followed with pole vault gold - second time she has won indoor event

  • Hodgkinson then claimed first world indoor 800m title in dominant fashion

  • Josh Kerr won Britain's first medal with men's 3,000m gold on Saturday

  • Hodgkinson and Dina Asher-Smith returned for 4x400m relay, with GB finishing fifth

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Hodgkinson wins 800m gold in championship record
  1. 'Nobody has higher expectations' than Hodgkinsonpublished at 18:48 GMT 22 March

    Women’s 800m final (18:53)

    Keely Hodgkinson's coach Jenny Meadows speaking to BBC Two: "She is really experienced now. She is coming into her sixth season where she wants to win another global medal. It would be the first time at the World Indoors because we've never managed to crack it and be in this shape during the indoor season.

    "There's nobody that has higher expectations than Keely herself. She obviously wants to win it and she would like to get the championship record. Everybody knows what shape she's in, she's the world-record holder after all, so there's no escaping that pressure. She does always say pressure is a privilege though."

    Fellow coach Trevor Painter speaking to BBC Two: "She could technically win it in any way because there are five other girls in this race and they will all want to try to stop her doing her thing. The interesting thing is she was more nervous about the heats than the semi-final, but the semi-final was just OK. We just need to find that spark today and I'm sure she'll be fine."

  2. Postpublished at 18:46 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Steve Backley
    Two-time world and Olympic javelin silver medallist on BBC Two

    Molly Caudery has got it after two years in the doldrums!

    She looked relaxed, precise and well-drilled throughout. I'm delighted for her, even more so than I was at Glasgow, because of the nature of what's happened over the last two years.

    Absolutely sensational.

  3. Postpublished at 18:45 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Molly Caudery has had two years from hell - she went out in the heats at Paris 2024, and didn't even make the competition at the last World Championships in Tokyo after an injury in the warm-up.

    So it is brilliant to see her smiling and celebrating with a British flag draped over her. She is indoor world champion for the second time, having triumphed in Glasgow two years ago.

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    GB's Caudery wins Gold in pole vault

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    Gold medalpublished at 18:43 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Tina Sutej knocks over the bar on her third attempt, and that is that.

    Molly Caudery is world indoor champion!

    Molly Caudery
  5. Postpublished at 18:43 GMT 22 March

    Men's 800m final

    Paula Radcliffe
    Former women's marathon world record holder on BBC Two

    What an impressive achievement for Cooper Lutkenhaus! He has a huge, huge future ahead of him.

    We thought that run in the semi-finals would've taken it out of his legs, but he has actually run even quicker there from the front. He held his ground when he was challenged by Eliott Crestan.

    Mohamed Attaoui might be able to finish quickly, but he left himself with far too much to do and ran into traffic on the home straight.

  6. Postpublished at 18:42 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Molly Caudery has cleared her second attempt at 4.85m!

    Tina Sutej failed her second - if she can't make her next jump, Caudery wins gold.

    Molly Caudery of Team Great Britain reactsImage source, Getty Images
  7. World record holder Hodgkinson's race to losepublished at 18:40 GMT 22 March

    Women's 800m (18:53)

    Keely Hodgkinson last month broke the long-standing women's indoor 800m world record, set by Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak on the day the Briton was born almost 24 years ago.

    Olympic champion Hodgkinson crossed the line in one minute 54.87 seconds in Lievin, France, taking almost one second off Ceplak's time of 1:55.82 which had endured since 3 March 2002.

    She joins triple jumper Jonathan Edwards as the only British athlete to hold a current world record in one of the sport's championship events.

    It means she is red hot favourite in Poland tonight, and it would be a major surprise if she did not claim gold for GB.

  8. Lutkenhaus, 17, wins world indoor goldpublished at 18:40 GMT 22 March
    Breaking

    Men's 800m final

    Cooper Lutkenhaus approaches the finish line to win the gold medalImage source, Getty Images

    A star is born.

    Cooper Lutkenhaus hits the front on the final lap and has the legs to keep ahead of the experienced field.

    Belgium's Eliott Crestan takes silver, with bronze going to Mohamed Attaoui of Spain.

  9. Postpublished at 18:39 GMT 22 March

    Men's 800m final

    Two laps down, two to go.

    Cooper Lutkenhaus is second, on the shoulder of leader Eliott Crestan of Belgium.

  10. Postpublished at 18:38 GMT 22 March

    Men's 800m final

    They're away in the men's 800m final, four laps of the track.

    Cooper Lutkenhaus is in lane four.

  11. Postpublished at 18:37 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Steve Backley
    Two-time world and Olympic javelin silver medallist on BBC Two

    That was a chance for Molly Caudery to put the pressure back on to Tina Sutej! She just didn't seem to quite have the height, clattering the bar on the way up.

  12. Postpublished at 18:36 GMT 22 March

    Men's 800m final

    Cooper Lutkenhaus celebrates as he crosses the finish lineImage source, Getty Images

    The start of a medal-strewn senior career?

    American 17-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus ran 1:44.29 to win his semi-final – the fastest time at the World Indoor Championships in 29 years.

    He’s the youngest 800m finalist in the history of the championships and is vying to become the youngest world indoor individual medallist in any event - and, indeed, champion.

    Belgium’s two-time world indoor medallist Eliott Crestan has the top personal best in the field, while Mohamed Attaoui made a customary late surge to set a Spanish record 1:44.48 when second to Lutkenhaus in the semi-finals.

  13. Postpublished at 18:35 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Tina Sutej fails in her first bid at 4.85m, can Molly Caudery take advantage?

    No, she swerved off course. Both women will have two more goes.

    My word, this is tense.

  14. Postpublished at 18:34 GMT 22 March

    Women's 1500m final

    Greg Rutherford
    Former world and Olympic long jump champion on BBC Two

    The entire team will be smiling back at the hotel, just like we are here in the studio.

    Georgia Hunter Bell is such a likeable person and you want people like her to be going out there and doing it.

    She is older than a lot of the others in her field and she has managed to come back and do something like this. Look how comfortable she was coming into the final straight!

  15. Postpublished at 18:33 GMT 22 March

    Women's 1500m final

    Gold medallist Georgia Hunter BellImage source, Getty Images

    Georgia Hunter Bell is handed a flag and a golden tiara and sets off a victory lap with her fellow medal winners.

    It was American Nikki Hiltz who took bronze in a brisk final - along with Hunter Bell's world leading time, Jess Hull took an area record, Hiltz set a personal best and fourth-place Agathe Guillemot set a French national record.

  16. Postpublished at 18:32 GMT 22 March

    Women's 1500m final

    Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
    Three-time world heptathlon champion on BBC Two

    Georgia Hunter Bell just stayed so calm, didn't she?

    She didn't panic when the field was starting to stretch, she stuck to her own tactics and they paid off beautifully.

    For her to win her first gold medal at a World Indoor Championships is fantastic, especially when she looks back on her journey to get there.

  17. Postpublished at 18:32 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Molly Caudery is firmly in season best territory, as she and Sutej prepare to go at 4.85m.

    Elsewhere, bronze is a three-way tie between Amalie Svabikova of Czech Republic, New Zealand's Imogen Ayris and Swiss vaulter Angelica Moser. They all had clean records before failing at 4.80m, so claim medals on countback.

  18. Postpublished at 18:31 GMT 22 March

    Women's 1500m final

    Paula Radcliffe
    Former women's marathon world record holder on BBC Two

    Georgia Hunter Bell goes top of the Great British all-time records with that time!

    She has been searching for the fast time all throughout this indoor season. She becomes the firs female World Indoors champion in the 1500m for us - and it is thoroughly well-deserved.

    She had to go after it. She had to do the work in closing down Birke Haylom. She did most of the work in closing down that gap.

    Her return to the sport has certainly brought her back with a mindset to make sure she enjoys every race. She will have been inspired by Josh Kerr's performance last night.

    Gold medallist Georgia Hunter BellImage source, Getty Images
  19. GB's Caudery guaranteed at least silverpublished at 18:28 GMT 22 March
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    Women's pole vault final

    It's a GB medal rush in Poland!

    Astonishing scenes as seven of the nine contenders at 4.80m fail all three attempts. The only athletes to pass are GB's Molly Caudery and Slovenia's Tina Sutej.

    They will go head to head for gold.

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    Hunter Bell wins first world title in women's 1500mpublished at 18:27 GMT 22 March
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    Women's 1500m final

    Georgia Hunter Bell is a world champion!

    The British athlete wins her first global title, coming home strongly to beat Australia's Jess Hull with a world-leading time of 3:58.53.

    Hull, who is sporting a chunky spike gouge on her lower leg, was almost a second behind Hunter Bell, who cruised into the lead in the final lap.

    It crowns a remarkable return to the sport over the last few years for the 32-year-old.

    Georgia Hunter Bell