World Athletics Championships live: Hodgkinson begins 800m title bid with Asher-Smith in 200m semis

Shafiqua Maloney should be up there in this heat but she looks to get blocked at the back early on and goes very wide to try to come round, she moves up but into the final 100m she runs out of gas massively, crossing in last!

Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma wins in 2:01.53 from Maggi Congdon and Eloisa Coiro of Italy.

Over in the javelin final, Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago is in the lead with a throw of 87.83m.

India’s world champion Neeraj Chopra and Pakistan’s Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem are way down in eighth and 10th respectively.

Stefanie Reid on BBC Sport comms says javelin athletes only throw 10-15 throws a week, because of the impact on the body.

France’s Anais Bourgoin wins heat two in 1:58.43 from Mary Moraa, one-hundredth of a second behind, those two simply storming away from the rest. Gabriela Gajanova of Slovakia is the final automatic qualifier.

Nice and easy from Hodgkinson, without having to find another gear.

She jokes to BBC Sport: “My makeup stayed on. We know I don’t like rounds, they feel awful. I just wanted to enjoy being back in the stadium, it’s so nice to be back here. It’s nice to be through.

“It’s been a long week, waiting around, the 800 being last, I was looking forward to getting out here. At one point I didn’t think I’d be here, it would mean more than last year.”

She adds that she’s been training in her hotel room as a result of the heat and humidity in Tokyo. “It was hot, let’s just do it here [in the hotel room], a little shakeout,” she says.

Hodgkinson wins from Assia Raziki, with France’s Clara Liberman taking the final automatic qualifying spot.

1:59.72 is the winning time.

Hodgkinson is controlling this nicely, with Horvat and Willis on her shoulder… and Keely begins to stretch it out now with 300m to go.

Hodgkinson gets a smooth start, and moves nicely to the front with 600m to go.

For those on Brit-watch: Hodgkinson is in heat one, Jemma Reekie in five and Georgia Hunter Bell in heat six.

Showtime in the women’s 800m and Keely Hodgkinson is in action in the first of seven heats.

The first three of each heat qualify, plus the three next fastest times.

The remaining qualifiers from that heat are: Davies of Australia, Garcia of Spain, Eisa of Ethiopia, Andrews of USA, Hall of Australia and Ngetich of Kenya. No FitzGerald.