Dina Asher-Smith and Keely Hodgkinson set new British record in the 60m and 800m

Dina Asher-Smith and Keely Hodgkinson bolstered their financial institution balances in Birmingham however nonetheless left feeling short-changed.

The British stars each collected bonus cheques of £4,200 for breaking their very own nationwide information at Saturday’s World Indoor Tour Final.

But Asher-Smith and Hodgkinson couldn’t cover their disappointment at failing to run even sooner in entrance of 6,000 house followers at the Utilita Arena.

Asher-Smith set a new British record of seven.03secs in the ladies’s 60m heats – 0.01secs sooner than her earlier greatest – earlier than successful the remaining in 7.05secs forward of her British team-mate Daryll Neita.

Yet afterwards, the 27-year-old revealed: ‘I was actually coming here for 6.9secs so I have really mixed emotions. I know I had it in me.

Dina Asher-Smith set a new British record in the 60m at the World Indoor Tour Final

She admitted being ‘frustrated’ at not going faster after her recent form

‘But it’s good that I’m pissed off at operating so quick. Ultimately, the large purpose is the World Championships in Budapest so I’ve to channel that and push onto the outside.’

Asher-Smith endured a troublesome 2022 after shedding her beloved grandmother Sislyn final May. She additionally missed the Commonwealth Games by harm and pulled up in the 100m remaining of the European Championships with cramp, however received world bronze and European silver medals in the 200m.

‘It was a really challenging year for me in 2022,’ she added. ‘But it was not really physical, it was more as a human being.

‘All I’m hoping for now’s no main life occasions for the subsequent two years. That could be nice. I’m actually pleased with my type and hopefully I’ll carry this over to the outside season. I’m blessed to be in form and on the startline and in a position to run actually quick.’

Hodgkinson, in the meantime, lowered her British record by 0.02secs in successful the ladies’s 800m in a time of 1min 57.18secs. 

However, whereas she additionally picked up one other cheque of £8,400 for successful the total World Indoor Tour, the 20-year-old was eyeing Jolanda Ceplak’s world record of 1min 55.82 secs set on the day she was born in March 2002.

Keely Hodgkinson additionally lowered her British record in the 800m with a time of 1min 57.18secs

She couldn’t beat her personal world record in the 1000m however did win the race

Hodgkinson, who competes once more on Thursday in the European Indoor Championships, mentioned: ‘It’s a British record so I can’t complain, but you know when you are capable of so much more.

‘I’m a bit gutted. I felt I was on pace, but the last 50m it got away from me.’

Laura Muir, 29, was chasing a world record of her personal in the ladies’s 1000m however fell off the tempo regardless of successful in a time of 2min 34.53secs.

Muir’s fellow Scot Neil Gourley, 28, broke the British record in the males’s 1500m with a run of 3min 32.48secs.