Painter and Meadows led Hodgkinson to Olympic silver as a young person on her Video games debut in Tokyo three years in the past, earlier than the Leigh athlete gained consecutive world silvers in 2022 and 2023.
She adopted that up with Olympic gold by dominating the ultimate and delivering the gold she and her group had been working in direction of.
The joint award was offered to Painter and Meadows by London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and Kelly Holmes – winner of 800m and 1500m gold at Athens 2004.
Whereas Hodgkinson gained Olympic gold, team-mate Bell additionally stood on the rostrum in Paris.
Bell stop athletics in 2017 and was nonetheless holding down a full-time job at first of this yr.
However after reuniting with Painter three years in the past, the 31-year-old achieved a fairytale 1500m bronze on her Olympic debut following European silver in June.
Davey, in the meantime, is now a three-time world relay medallist at 24 after including bronze in Paris to 2 medals ultimately yr’s World Championships.
There’s a World Championships in Tokyo to focus on in 2025, the place Painter and Meadows will hope to information their athletes to additional worldwide success.
Final yr, soccer supervisor Pep Guardiola was named Coach of the Yr as his Treble-winning Manchester Metropolis aspect gained Group of the Yr.
