Keely beaten by a young Kenyan mum, who’d have thought. Had her wings clipped by Hunter Bell too

Nick

The questions on Keely are back on until Beijing 2027 and then Los Angeles. The talk was the world record, now she has to get back on form over the next two years.

Martin

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

George Mills has a great opportunity here, he’s been running well and putting the work in. He says about the mundane work he puts in time and time again and it would be great to see him continue that trajectory in this final.

That’s what we want and we need more medals for the team.

Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker is seeking to recover from disappointment earlier in the championships.

The American was disqualified from his medal-winning event for jostling with opponents in the home straight.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, the defending double world champion, is in the field having recovered from injury, but was last of the qualifiers in his Friday heat.

Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia, a two-time world medallist, is also on the start line.

Great Britain’s George Mills is on the hunt for a medal in the men’s 5,000m, having recovered from a fractured wrist suffered in June.

Mills has come a long way in the last year since his showing at the 2024 Olympics, most memorable for a heated on-track exchange with a rival following a collision in the heats.

Since then, the son of former England international footballer Danny Mills has broken the British record in the 5,000m, taking four and a half seconds off Sir Mo Farah’s time which had stood for 14 years.

He qualified for today’s final by finishing fourth in his heat on Friday.

Jenny Meadows
Former 800m World Championship medallist on BBC TV

We got the two medals and they would have ran through 400m and 600m faster than they’d ever ran.

Georgia to run a lifetime best in a final – absolutely incredible and validation.

Keely will be disappointed with a bronze but when you look at the time she ran and keeping calm to deliver it. A brilliant bronze medal in the way the race was set up.

We will have more reaction to that women’s 800m final throughout the day. But there are plenty of other British medal chances coming up.

Here’s when you need to be in front of the TV/reading the live text:

Ongoing – Women’s high jump – Morgan Lake

11:47 – Men’s 5,000m – George Mills

12:20 – Men’s 4x400m relay – GB team

13:06 – Women’s 4x100m relay – GB team

The penultimate event in the men’s decathlon final – thejavelin – has been completed.

Germany’s Niklas Kaul threw a season’s best of 78.19m, withEstonia’s Karel Tilga (69.33m), Bahamas’ Kendrick Thompson (68.02m), and USA’sHeath Baldwin (65.24m) also throwing over 65m.

In terms of the overall standings, Germany’s LeoNeugebauer leads the way with 8072 points.

USA’s Kyle Garland sits second with 8057 points, with Puerto Rico’sAyden Owens-Delerme (7958 points) in third.

The final event – 1500m – is scheduled for 12.49.

Steve Cram
BBC Sport athletics commentator

If you told me Keely was going to run at 1:54 and not finish in the top two, well, I wouldn’t have believed you.

Georgia Hunter Bell gets a personal best and two medals for Great Britain, but no gold.

Keely Hodgkinson looked devastated initially, while Georgia Hunter Bell looked ecstatic.

But soon the two are hand in hand, raising their arms to the crowd. Two superb medals for GB.

Hunter Bell ran 1:54.90 – a new personal best.

She beat Hodgkinson by 0.01 seconds!

Lilian Odira of Kenya, came from absolutely nowhere in the final straight!

She blitzed past the British duo, just as we were preparing for a British one-two. Odira ran 1:54.62 – a new championship record.

But it is two more British medals, with Georgia Hunter Bell pipping her friend and Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to silver.

Keely has to get her elbows out here…

Neck and neck!

Hodgkinson is pushing for the lead down the inside, Mary Moraa cuts her off.

Georgia Hunter Bell is fourth.

One lap to go.

Mary Moraa has moved into an early lead, Keely is second.

They’re off.

Jenny Meadows
Former 800m World Championship medallist on BBC TV

I’ve got my notebook here and told her to draw on all the training and just consume herself in the process.

It’s only one race. The best thing would be, with seven other women in the race, is if she can get out and make it fast.

Harry Poole
BBC Sport in Tokyo

Training partners. Friends. But tonight, gold medal rivals.

It’s all business now.

Keely Hodgkinson walks past Georgia Hunter Bell to her starting line but they don’t acknowledge each other.

Locked in.

Audrey Werro is seeking a first 800m medal bya Swiss female athlete, while unpredictable defending champion Mary Moraa leads a trio of Kenyans.

They are the biggest threats to the British duo.

Keely Hodgkinson has said a firstworld title “would mean more to me than last year, 100% – I think the journey here makes it that muchsweeter.”

She added: “I want to be able to say I left it all out there.”

She and her competitors are out on track now.

Quiz question – when was the last time two Brits earned a medal in the same individual event at a globalchampionships?

The answer is 2007, when Christine Ohuruogu and NicolaSanders finished one-two in Osaka in the women’s 400m.

Now, 18 years later, we will see if Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell can replicate that achievement.

Harry Poole
BBC Sport in Tokyo

“The cake has been baked – but we’ve not been able to add the cream and the cherry on top”.

That was how Jenny Meadows described Keely Hodgkinson’s build up to these World Championships to me.

It is remarkable that Hodgkinson is in this final, never mind the pre-race favourite for gold.

Two torn hamstrings – the second a grade three requiring up to 12 weeks recovery – left her and her team doubting whether any of this would be possible.