{"id":3452,"date":"2026-04-09T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:58:19","slug":"rome-hodgkinson-test-herself-in-the-400m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/rome-hodgkinson-test-herself-in-the-400m\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome: Hodgkinson to test herself in the 400m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another major name in athletics is set to arrive at the<strong> Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026<\/strong>. On June 4, Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will take to the track at the Stadio Olimpico. The British standout broke the world indoor record during the winter season with a remarkable 1:54.87 in Li\u00e9vin. In Rome, Hodgkinson will run the 400 metres, a discipline where she could achieve surprising results after impressing in the final leg of the 4&#215;400 relay at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun last March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At just 24 years old, the Manchester athlete has already accomplished a great deal: she won Olympic gold in Paris, following a silver medal in Tokyo three years prior; earned three outdoor World Championships medals (silver in Oregon and Budapest, bronze in Tokyo); and became the world indoor champion in Torun, all in the 800 metres. Notably, just an hour after her victory in Torun, Hodgkinson ran the fastest leg of the entire 4&#215;400 relay final, clocking an impressive 50.10 seconds, which helped her team secure a fifth-place finish. She will be looking to improve on her recent personal best of 51.49, set at the indoor arena in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Golden Gala lineup continues to grow in excitement, with global stars like Noah <strong>Lyles <\/strong>in the 100 metres, sprint sensations Melissa <strong>Jefferson-Wooden<\/strong>, Julien <strong>Alfred<\/strong>, and Amy <strong>Hunt <\/strong>in the 200 metres, along with Italian athletes Mattia <strong>Furlani<\/strong>, Nadia <strong>Battocletti<\/strong>, and Andy <strong>Diaz<\/strong>. Additional participants for the event will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets for the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketone.it\/event\/golden-gala-pietro-mennea-2026-stadio-olimpico-21030049\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TicketOne<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic gold medallist and indoor world record holder in the 800 metres, will compete on 4...","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":3450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}