Hodgkinson’s beautiful indoor run in France noticed her cross the road in 1:54.87 to smash a world file which had stood since 3 March 2002 – the day the Briton was born.
Her coach, Jenny Meadows, informed BBC Sport the athlete’s time in Lievin may have been as much as one second sooner – and Hodgkinson is aiming greater nonetheless.
“I’ve identified for weeks I am able to breaking it. It is only a matter of getting out on the day,” she mentioned.
“We will push it even additional sooner or later, so long as I keep wholesome and I feel that is hopefully only the start.”
Victory got here after a tough yr for the 23-year-old, who stormed to Olympic gold on the Paris Video games in 2024.
Hodgkinson was left unable to coach after tearing her hamstring just some months after that triumph and has been constructing her means again ever since.
“After successful the Olympics, it actually wasn’t what I assumed was going to occur,” she mentioned.
“It makes you cease and strip again all the pieces and suppose, why is that this occurring? What are the issues?
“However, we bought by it, I grew to become a stronger individual, and I feel that is now the reward of all of that taking place.”