Organisers have confirmed that world indoor 1500m champion and Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell, the world silver medallist over 800m outdoors, will join M11 track club training partner Keely Hodgkinson on the 800m start line at the Novuna London Athletics Meet on Saturday 18 July.
Hunter Bell is the British record holder over 1500m (3:52.61) and opened her season winning the Golden Gala in Rome but her talent over two laps is indisputable. Highlights in 2025 included two Wanda Diamond League wins and a national title but most notably, a podium finish and lifetime best of 1:54.90 at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo to go second on the British all-time list and ninth-fastest in the world.
London has a habit of bringing the best out of athletes. At the 2024 event, having only dipped under the two-minute mark for the first time earlier that year, Hunter Bell finished third in a personal best at the time of 1:56.28 behind GB teammates Hodgkinson – the race winner in a meeting record and national record of 1:54.61 – and Jemma Reekie (1:55.61). It was just the second race in history in which eight women had bettered 1:58.
12 months later she moved clear of the field in the home straight to take the win in 1:56.74 in front of a sell-out 60,000 crowd – proving that the tactical work she’d done in training to maximise her 800m potential was paying off.
“The London Diamond League is the best day on the calendar. Winning in front of a home crowd last year was insane and I can’t wait to come back this year with the girls to see how fast we can go. It’s going to be epic.”
The Novuna London Athletics Meet – the world’s biggest one-day athletics event – is the eleventh meeting of the 2026 Wanda Diamond League. The series comprises 15 of the most prestigious events in global track and field across four different continents and began in Shanghai/Keqiao on 16 May (as a result of the Mazzraty Doha Meeting being rescheduled from 8 May to 19 June). It concludes with a single final across two days in Brussels (4-5 September).
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