Keely Klassic: Neil Gourley and Lina Nielsen break British information in Birmingham

Neil Gourley and Lina Nielsen each set new British indoor information on the Keely Klassic assembly in Birmingham.

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson had been attributable to go for the world indoor file earlier than pulling out of the eponymous occasion with a hamstring damage.

However the crowds had been nonetheless handled to some high-quality performances as Nielsen shaved 0.24 seconds off Dina Asher-Smith’s girls’s 300m file, successful in 36.53 seconds.

And Gourley produced the quickest indoor 1,000m time by a British man, clocking two minutes 16.74 seconds – 0.46 seconds sooner than the earlier mark set by Charlie Grice in New York in 2020.

It was not sufficient to clinch victory, although, with the Netherlands’ Samuel Chapple triumphing in 2:16.09.

Georgia Bell, who received 1500m bronze on the Paris Olympics, narrowly missed out on a 3rd British file of the afternoon, together with her successful time of 4:00.63 simply over a second exterior Laura Muir’s nationwide mark of three:59.58.

World indoor champion Molly Caudery additionally put in one other polished efficiency to win the ladies’s pole vault with 4.73m, simply 2cm exterior her season’s finest.