World Athletics Championships: Britain’s best medal hopes

She was clearly upset after defeat in Manchester but has the experience and composure to recover and reach the podium this month having said she is now competing happy. Muir is 33/1 to win gold.

Daryll Neita/Dina Asher-Smith

Great Britain have a duo who, although they downplay their rivalry, can create some serious headlines.

Neita has beaten Asher-Smith – the 2019 world champion – over 200m this year as she gets to grips with the event, while Asher-Smith remains one of the world’s best.

Neita’s decision to move to Italy under coach Marco Airale has paid off handsomely and she can now rival Asher-Smith to become number one.

Asher-Smith is seen as the best hope in the World Athletics Championship betting odds for the women’s 200m though and is 10/1 for victory while Neita is 25/1. Asher-Smith is also 10/1 in the betting for the women’s 100m while her compatriot is 80/1.

Keely Hodgkinson

The 21-year-old’s contest with Athing Mu and Mary Moraa for the 800m title could be one of the races of the Championships.

The United States’ Mu beat Hodgkinson to gold at the Olympics and last year’s Worlds, while Kenyan Moraa got the better of her in the Diamond League last month. Yet, this month, Mu’s coach admitted she had not committed to running in Hungary.

Hodgkinson, though, keeps improving and, having narrowed the gap on Mu last year, will be confident she can beat her this time around – if the American competes.

Hodgkinson is the 8/11 favourite in the women’s 800m odds at 8/11 with Moraa priced at 5/4.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson

The 2019 world heptathlon champion has had little luck since that glorious evening in Doha.

Covid postponed the 2020 Olympics just when she looked set to challenge Nafi Thiam for gold before an Achilles rupture later that year. She battled back to reach Tokyo, only for a calf injury to wreck her dreams in Japan but she did defend her Commonwealth title last year.

With defending champion Thiam out and Johnson-Thompson fit and ready, the podium is well within reach and the Brit is 9/1 for gold in the World Athletics Championships betting odds.

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