Keely Hodgkinson swaps Paris for Marbella as she celebrates Olympic 800M win on a luxury yacht - donning £850 Louis Vuitton sliders and £510 Chanel sunglasses
- Hodgkinson, 22, won gold in the 800metres earlier this week - and is now enjoying a sunshine break with family and friends off the Spanish coast
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She may have won sporting gold in Paris - but Olympian Keely Hodgkinson is also going for gold in the fashion stakes.mnhkh
The British 800m star, fresh from her podium success on Tuesday, celebrated in style with her family on a yacht off Spain’s Costa del Sol.
Wearing a green string bikini and a white crochet-style cover-up, the 22-year-old swapped her running shoes for a pair of £860 green Louis Vuitton leather sliders.
Her accessories came with an equally luxurious price tag - carrying an Ibiza Basket Bag by Balenciaga on her arm, which retails for £850, she also sported she a pair of £510 Chanel sunglasses.
From Paris to the Costa del Sol: Keely Hodgkinson's celebration of her Team GB gold medal began in earnest this weekend, as the 22-year-old middle distance runner boarded a yacht in Marbella
The athlete, who was a cover star for Elle magazine last month, has previously told how she follows a ‘look good, feel good’ mantra to give her an edge when she competes.
But her glamorous beach style last week - complete with the bright purple acrylic nails which were designed to complement the colour of the Paris track - suggests she is now applying the same focus to enjoying her well-deserved win.
Keely was spotted in Puerto Banus, near Marbella, boarding a yacht organised for the star by hospitality brand La Sala Lifestyle. It bore a banner featuring the Olympic rings and a gold medal, with the well-meant if ungrammatical message: ‘Congratulating on your gold medal Keely Hodgkinson’.
The athlete cut a stylish figure in a pair of £510 Chanel sunglasses and £860 green Louis Vuitton leather sliders as she arrived at the dock with friends
Hospitality brand La Sala Lifestyle had chartered a yacht for the Team GB runner, with a congratulatory message awaiting Hodgkinson and her companions in Marbella
The blonde middle distance star donned a crochet style beach dress over a green bikini for the excursion. Right: The gold medalist waits to board her charter
Let's go Dad! Keely Hodgkinson and her proud dad Dean make their way to the yacht
Gold to green: The star wore a stylish green string bikini as she chatted to friends on the yacht. Hodgkinson is likely to become a huge star thanks to her achievements on the track
With the temperature around 31 degrees in Marbella this weekend, Keely and her friends headed for the water
She and two friends chatted as they sunbathed on the deck. When the boat returned to the port, the group sat at an outdoor bar enjoying jugs of what appeared to be sangria.
In a post on Instagram, Clubhouse Marbella - part of the La Sala group - wrote: ‘What a pleasure to have 800m Olympic Gold Medallist @keely.hodgkinson celebrating her win on the @lasalalifestyle yacht today!’
Hodgkinson won the 800m women’s final to claim the first Olympic gold of her career, after bagging a silver medal - and breaking the British record set by Dame Kelly Holmes 20 years ago - at the 2020 Tokyo games.
Showing off her athletic physique, the Olympian looked relaxed as she enjoyed some down time with her nearest and dearest
After competing in the 800metre final on Tuesday night at the Stade de France in Paris, the Team GB star jetted to Spain for a holiday celebration
The star enjoyed a day out on a luxury yacht with a number of close friends and her family members
The banner across the back of the luxury yacht congratulated the 22-year-old on her Olympic achievement
Her winning time was 1:56.71, almost a full second faster than silver medallist Ethiopian Tsige Duguma.
Keely had previously revealed that a family holiday in Marbella was her ‘first priority’ after the Games - along with the possibility of buying a beige Porsche if she won gold.
Luxury fashion brands have also reportedly been circling and she already has partnerships with Rimmel London, Nike, watch brand Omega and sports nutrition company Maurten.
The image of the athlete wearing a crown following her victory on Tuesday night is already being turned into a piece of art.
Hodgkinson cruised to victory in the women's 800m final on Monday night - and was promptly presented with a plastic gold crown to mark her victory
Britain's new queen of the track Keely Hodgkinson stopped by at Team GB's HQ in the Bois de Boulogne district of Paris to check on artist Ben Mosley's latest storyboard
Artist Ben Mosley got to work on creating a portrait of the Stade de France moment using a photograph taken by Mail Sport’s Andy Hooper.
For an interpretation of the victorious image from the front page of Tuesday’s Daily Mail, Mosley used acrylic paint on gold leaf worth thousands of pounds per kilo.
‘Wow! Is that really gold?’ said Hodgkinson, as she locked her eyes on the storyboard that is being worked on every day at Team GB’s HQ in the Bois de Boulogne district of Paris.
She signed the masterpiece, before telling Mail Sport about her own artistic skills. ‘I was good at art at school, actually,’ said Hodgkinson. ‘I can draw. If there’s something in front of me, I can copy it quite well and make it look realistic.'
