Jemma Reekie felt crushed as she was run out of the Olympic 800m medals by team-mate Keely Hodgkinson.

The North Ayrshire star sat in second place coming into the home straight but was overtaken by Hodgkinson and Raevyn Rogers, with American Athing Mu taking gold.

Reekie, 23, lowered her personal best for the second time this season to 1:56.90 but it served as little consolation.

“I definitely wanted a lot better than that,” said Reekie, who is able to train full-time and benefit from world class facilities, technology, coaching and support teams thanks to National Lottery funding – which has never been more important in getting her to the start line after a turbulent year.

“I know the time was good, but I'm in better shape than that. It's just frustrating when you don't perform it on the big stage because I've been flying in training.

“It's frustrating but I'll learn from it and come back stronger. I was trying to run my own race and trying to make it into those medal places but it didn't work out today.”

Mu took the field out to a first lap of 57.9, with Reekie the most prominent of the three Brits; it was the first time a Team GB trio had ever made the women’s 800m final.

Reekie moved to the front coming into the back straight and Hodgkinson followed her move, but the Scot couldn’t then produce a burst from an inside position.

Fast finisher Hodgkinson, 19, overtook Reekie and Habtamu Alemu in the final 80 metres to break Kelly Holmes’s British record with a time of 1:55.88.

Reekie has had her own eyes on the long-standing record, which Holmes established in 2005, and has gone 1:56.96 this season.

She looked excellent through the rounds but was out-kicked by Hodgkinson as she was in the final of the 800m at the British Olympic Trials in Manchester in June.

“I didn't quite get out as fast as I wanted to and into the position I wanted to, but that's 800m-metre racing, it's always going to be really tough,” she said.

“You can't complain if you're fourth at the Olympics, but you can because you're just outside those medals.

“It'll take a while and I'm not going to be that happy about it but there's nothing I can do about it now, I can't reverse time, I can't change anything.

“I can just progress and get better for next year. Everyone's doing well and we've still got a lot more athletes to come this week.”

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Hodgkinson won Britain’s first women’s 800m medal since Holmes won gold at Athens 2004 and on the fifth day of track & field action, delivered Team GB’s first medal.

On Hodgkinson’s achievement, Reekie said:  “She's amazing. The time that she ran is amazing as well.

“She's got so much ahead of her. It's so exciting to have British runners running so well.”

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