The brilliant 22-year-old Leigh Harrier ran the race on her terms, hitting the front early on and setting the tempo throughout.
Heading into the final straight, Hodgkinson still had Kenyan world champion Mary Moraa for company - but kicked on to finish clear of her rivals and become only the ninth British female ever to win an Olympic athletics title.
That glorious moment arrived shortly after Team GB won its first gold medal in well over 48 hours as the British track cycling team started in the velodrome with a bang.
Remarkably, considering the fine reputation in Olympic cycling, Great Britain had never won the women's team sprint - and did not even make an entry in the event at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020+1.
However, the emergence of Emma Finucane changed everything - and the finest women's sprinter currently racing anchored a world record-breaking time of 45.186 seconds alongside Katy Marchant and Sophie Capewell.
It ended a sequence of three silver medals and nine bronze without a gold between Saturday afternoon and Monday afternoon.
But, despite that mini-drought in terms of gold medals, there were actually four Olympic champions for Team GB crowned in the preceding 24 hours between Friday and Saturday morning.
First, in rowing, Emily Craig and Imogen Grant dealt with the pressure of being overwhelming favourites ahead of the last ever staging of the lightweight double sculls event.
Any pressure did not show, though, as the partnership comfortably retained their three-year unbeaten record since the final in the same event at Tokyo 2020+1.
There, Craig and Grant agonisingly finished fourth - and outside of the medals by 0.01 seconds in a photo finish - but Craig then mounted that very photograph on her living room wall, and it clearly served as ample motivation.
Later on Friday, Bryony Page bounced her way to trampolining glory to become the first ever British woman to win a gymnastics gold medal in any discipline.
And Scott Brash, Harry Charles and Ben Maher were also jumping for joy - literally - after becoming Olympic champions in the team jumping element of equestrian on Hello Jefferson, Romeo 88 and Point Break.
Rounding off the rowing regatta on Saturday, Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin, Tom Ford, and cox Harry Brightmore overcame the Netherlands to regain the men's eight Olympic title for Team GB.
So, certainly, the rowing at National Olympic Nautical Stadium produced far more fruitful outcomes than the extremely disappointing performance by British boats in the sport in Tokyo 2020+1, where only one silver medal and one bronze medal were won.
On top of the three gold medals mentioned above and the two silver medals mentioned later in this write-up, British boats took bronze in the women's double sculls, men's coxless four, and women's eight.
Meanwhile, across the weekend, Great Britain continued to collect plenty of other medals across a number of sports, though particularly in those where there was water involved.
In the pool, Duncan Scott and Ben Proud took silver medals in the men's 50m freestyle and men's 200m individual medley respectively.
And Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding claimed bronze in the 3m springboard to ensure that Team GB won medals in all four synchronised diving events at the same Olympics for the first time ever.
Elsewhere, in the men's event at Le Golf National, there was a fine silver medal for Tommy Fleetwood as he carded a five-under 66 in his final round to finish just one shot shy of world number one Scottie Scheffler.
Additionally, equestrian brought in another couple of bronze medals through the efforts of Lottie Fry on her mount Glamourdalec in the team dressage alongside the experienced Carl Hester on Fame and Olympic first-timer Becky Moody on Jagerbomb.
Fry herself then also finished third for a bronze medal in the individual dressage competition.
Of course, it is the track-and-field programme which dominates the calendar in the second half of an Olympic Games - and, among the 41 athletics gold medals to be won in the Stade de France, the crowning of the fastest man on the planet is usually seen as the blue ribbon event.
That man is now Noah Lyles who beat Jamaica's Kishane Thompson by five-thousands of a second (0.005) to win the men's 100m Olympic gold medal in a truly incredible photo finish.
The 27-year-old American surged through from last to first in the second half of a sensational race in which all eight competitors broke the 10-second barrier for the first time in the history of the event.
In the end, 100m came down to millimetres - and was determined by a more desperate lunge for the line by Lyles than Thompson.
The women's 100m final was also pretty close - decided by 0.15 seconds as Julien Aldred of the Caribbean island of St Lucia beat American pair Sha'Carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson to win her nation's first ever Olympic medal of any type.
Daryll Neita was fourth for Team GB, just four-hundredths of a second away from taking bronze - and it has certainly been an Olympic Games of fine margins for many British competitors.
Sometimes, it has worked out in Team GB's favour - for, that is something to which BMX rider Tom Pidcock, triathlete Alex Yee and the women's quadruple sculls team in rowing can attest.
But, in the triathlon mixed relay featuring Yee and his team-mates Sam Dickinson, Georgia Taylor and Beth Potter, a silver medal turned into bronze following another photo finish.
Back in the rowing, the Netherlands got their revenge for the their dramatic defeat in the quadruple sculls by beating Great Britain in the women's four with a similar comeback.
And that meant Helen Glover was unable to add a third gold medal to the two which she had won at London 2012 and Rio 2016 alongside Heather Stanning in the women's pair.
Similarly, Ollie Wynne-Griffith and Tom George had to settle for a silver medal in the men's pair after being caught on the line by Croatia.
In the gymnastics arena too, there have been some extremely tight calls with 22-year-old Jake Jarman taking a bronze medal in the men's floor final, having been just 0.067 points away from gold.
Jarman made a fine Olympic debut - and alongside another debutant, 20-year-old Harry Hepworth who took bronze in the vault final, British men's gymnastics looks in safe hands following the retirement of long-time standard bearer Max Whitlock.
Of course, in sports such as gymnastics and diving where the ultimate outcome is determined by a set of judges, experience can count for a lot and that is a hard lesson which will have been learned by 19-year-old Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix.
The daughter of First Dates maître d' Fred Sirieux qualified for the final in third place - but a series of early errors in the final itself left her fruitlessly playing catch-up.
Then again, sometimes, the competition is simply too hot - and sometimes the whole event is simply too unpredictable.
Staged on white water rapids, Joe Clarke and Kimberley Woods entered the new Olympic discipline of kayak cross as world number one in the men's rankings and women's rankings respectively.
True to form, both Clarke and Woods reached the medal finals - but, in the men's event, Clarke found himself hampered at the start and took silver.
Then, in the women's event, Woods was crashed into when leading, though did at least collect a second bronze medal of the Games.
Finally, sometimes, the officials get it horribly wrong and there is nothing which can be done about it.
In a tense women's skeet shooting final, Amber Rutter was tied with Chile's Crovetto Chadid after making 55 shots out of 60, meaning extra shots were required.
The pair could not be separated after three further shots when, in a moment of contention, Rutter was called to have missed a shot which slow motion replays appeared to show she hit.
Despite protesting, there was no provision for a video review and the judges did not overturn the decision - and so Rutter was denied the chance to add to Britain's gold total after Chadid fired the winning shots.
Certainly then, it was a frustrating weekend at times for Team GB - but it is perhaps more of an indication of just how many medal opportunities are being created by this excellent squad.
Indeed, the overall Team GB tally of 42 medals at the close of Day 10 was better than it stood at that stage of the Games at London 2012 (40), Rio 2016 (41) and Tokyo 2020+1 (35).
And, while the number of gold medal winners at the end of 5 August was somewhat down on 2012 (18) and 2016 (12), the usually medal-rich track cycling events had been completed in both of those previous editions.
By contrast, this time, the action in the velodrome has only just begun - and form again suggests it will provide a regular source of medals.
PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS
MEDAL TABLE
| Pos | Updated 07/08/2024 21:35 | G | S | B | TOTAL |
| 1 | UNITED STATES (USA) | 26 | 35 | 32 | 93 |
| 2 | CHINA (CHN) | 25 | 23 | 17 | 65 |
| 3 | AUSTRALIA (AUS) | 18 | 12 | 9 | 41 |
| 4 | FRANCE (FRA) | 13 | 16 | 20 | 49 |
| 5 | GREAT BRITAIN & NI (GBR) | 12 | 17 | 20 | 49 |
| 6 | JAPAN (JPN) | 12 | 6 | 13 | 31 |
| 7 | SOUTH KOREA (KOR) | 11 | 8 | 7 | 26 |
| 8 | ITALY (ITA) | 9 | 10 | 8 | 27 |
| 9 | NETHERLANDS (NED) | 9 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| 10 | GERMANY (GER) | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 11 | CANADA (CAN) | 6 | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 12 | IRELAND (IRL) | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 13 | NEW ZEALAND (NZL) | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 14 | ROMANIA (ROU) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 15 | HUNGARY (HUN) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 15 | SWEDEN (SWE) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 17 | BRAZIL (BRA) | 2 | 5 | 7 | 14 |
| 18 | SPAIN (ESP) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| 19 | UKRAINE (UKR) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 20 | CROATIA (CRO) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 21 | BELGIUM (BEL) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 22 | HONG KONG (HKG) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 23 | PHILIPPINES (PHI) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 24 | AZERBAIJAN (AZE) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 | SERBIA (SRB) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 26 | ISRAEL (ISR) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 27 | JAMAICA (JAM) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 28 | SWITZERLAND (SUI) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 29 | KAZAKHSTAN (KAZ) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 30 | THAILAND (THA) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 31 | GEORGIA (GEO) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 32 | DENMARK (DEN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 33 | GREECE (GRE) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 34 | POLAND (POL) | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 35 | KENYA (KEN) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 36 | SOUTH AFRICA (RSA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 37 | CHILE (CHI) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | ECUADOR (ECU) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | ST LUCIA (LCA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 37 | UGANDA (UGA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 41 | CHINESE TAIPEI (TPE) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 42 | CUBA (CUB) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 42 | IRAN (IRI) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 42 | UZBEKISTAN (UZB) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 45 | CZECH REPUBLIC (CZE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 45 | GUATEMALA (GUA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 45 | NORWAY (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 48 | ALGERIA (ALG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 48 | ARGENTINA (ARG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 48 | BAHRAIN (BRN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 48 | DOMINICA (DMA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 48 | MOROCCO (MAR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 48 | SLOVENIA (SLO) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 54 | NORTH KOREA (PRK) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 55 | ARMENIA (ARM) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 55 | MEXICO (MEX) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 57 | ETHIOPIA (ETH) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 58 | KYRGYZSTAN (KGZ) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 58 | TURKEY (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 60 | LITHUANIA (LTU) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 61 | KOSOVO (KOS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 61 | TUNISIA (TUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 63 | COLOMBIA (COL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 63 | CYPRUS (CYP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 63 | FIJI (FIJ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 63 | MONGOLIA (MNG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 67 | INDIA (IND) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 67 | TAJIKSTAN (TJK) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 69 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (DOM) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 69 | MALAYSIA (MAS) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 69 | MOLDOVA (MDA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 72 | AUSTRIA (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | CAPE VERDE (CPV) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | EGYPT (EGY) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | GRENADA (GRN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | INDONESIA (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | PERU (PER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | PORTUGAL (POR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | SLOVAKIA (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 72 | ZAMBIA (ZAM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
MEDAL ROLL OF HONOUR
TEAM GB
TEAM GB
| GOLD | |||||
| 1 | 29-Jul | Rosalind Canter (Lordships Graffalo) Laura Collett (London 52) Tom McEwen (JL Dublin) | Equestrian | Team eventing | |
| 2 | 29-Jul | Tom Pidcock | Cycling | Men's mountain bike cross-country | |
| 3 | 30-Jul | Nathan Hales | Shooting | Men's trap | |
| 4 | 30-Jul | Matt Richards Duncan Scott Tom Dean James Guy Kieran Bird James McMillan | Swimming | Men's 4 x 200m freestyle relay | |
| 5 | 31-Jul | Alex Yee | Triathlon | Men's event | |
| 6 | 31-Jul | Lauren Henry Hannah Scott Lola Anderson Georgie Brayshaw | Rowing | Women's quadruple sculls | |
| 7 | 02-Aug | Emily Craig Imogen Grant | Rowing | Women's lightweight double sculls | |
| 8 | 02-Aug | Bryony Page | Gymnastics | Women's trampoline | |
| 9 | 02-Aug | Scott Brash (Hello Jefferson) Ben Maher (Point Break) Harry Charles (Romeo 88) | Equestrian | Team jumping | |
| 10 | 03-Aug | Sholto Carnegie Rory Gibbs Morgan Bolding Jacob Dawson Charlie Elwes Tom Digby James Rudkin Tom Ford Harry Brightmore (cox) | Rowing | Men's eight | |
| 11 | 05-Aug | Sophie Capewell Emma Finucane Katy Marchant | Cycling | Women's team sprint | |
| 12 | 05-Aug | Keely Hodgkinson | Athletics | Women's 800m |
| SILVER | |||||
| 1 | 27-Jul | Anna Henderson | Cycling | Women's road time trial | |
| 2 | 28-Jul | Adam Peaty | Swimming | Men's 100m breaststroke | |
| 3 | 29-Jul | Tom Daley Noah Williams | Diving | Men's synchronised 10m platform | |
| 4 | 29-Jul | Adam Burgess | Canoeing | Men's C-1 canoe slalom | |
| 5 | 29-Jul | Matt Richards | Swimming | Men's 200m freestyle | |
| 6 | 31-Jul | Kieran Reilly | Cycling | Men's BMX freestyle | |
| 7 | 01-Aug | Helen Glover Esme Booth Sam Redgrave Rebecca Shorten | Rowing | Women's four | |
| 8 | 02-Aug | Ollie Wynne-Griffith Tom George | Rowing | Men's pair | |
| 9 | 02-Aug | Ben Proud | Swimming | Men's 50m freestyle | |
| 10 | 02-Aug | Duncan Scott | Swimming | Men's 200m individual medley | |
| 11 | 04-Aug | Amber Rutter | Shooting | Women's skeet | |
| 12 | 04-Aug | Tommy Fleetwood | Golf | Men's event | |
| 13 | 05-Aug | Joe Clarke | Canoeing | Men's kayak cross | |
| 14 | 06-Aug | Jack Carlin Ed Lowe Hamish Turnbull | Cycling | Men's team sprint | |
| 15 | 06-Aug | Josh Kerr | Athletics | Men's 1500m | |
| 16 | 07-Aug | Dan Bigham Ethan Hayter Ethan Vernon Ollie Wood Charlie Tanfield | Cycling | Men's team pursuit | |
| 17 | 07-Aug | Matthew Hudson-Smith | Athletics | Men's 400m |
| BRONZE | |||||
| 1 | 27-Jul | Yasmin Harper Scarlett Mew Jensen | Diving | Women's synchronised 3m springboard | |
| 2 | 28-Jul | Kimberley Woods | Canoeing | Women's K-1 canoe slalom | |
| 3 | 29-Jul | Laura Collett (London 52) | Equestrian | Individual eventing | |
| 4 | 31-Jul | Beth Potter | Triathlon | Women's event | |
| 5 | 31-Jul | Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix Lois Toulson | Diving | Women's synchronised 10m platform | |
| 6 | 01-Aug | Becky Wilde Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne | Rowing | Women's double sculls | |
| 7 | 01-Aug | Oli Wilkes David Ambler Matt Aldridge Freddie Davidson | Rowing | Men's four | |
| 8 | 02-Aug | Anthony Harding Jack Laugher | Diving | Men's synchronised 3m springboard | |
| 9 | 03-Aug | Heidi Long Rowan McKellar Holly Dunford Emily Ford Lauren Irwin Eve Stewart Hattie Taylor Annie Campbell-Orde Henry Fieldman (cox) | Rowing | Women's eight | |
| 10 | 03-Aug | Emma Wilson | Sailing | Women's IQFoil | |
| 11 | 03-Aug | Lottie Fry (Glamourdalec) Carl Hester (Fame) Becky Moody (Jagerbomb) | Equestrian | Team dressage | |
| 12 | 03-Aug | Jake Jarman | Gymnastics | Men's floor | |
| 13 | 03-Aug | Sam Reardon Laviai Nielsen Alex Haydock-Wilson Amber Anning Nicole Yeargin (heats) | Athletics | Mixed 4 x 400m relay | |
| 14 | 04-Aug | Lottie Fry (Glamourdalec) | Equestrian | Individual dressage | |
| 15 | 04-Aug | Harry Hepworth | Gymnastics | Men's vault | |
| 16 | 05-Aug | Alex Yee Georgia Taylor-Brown Sam Dickinson Beth Potter | Triathlon | Mixed relay event | |
| 17 | 05-Aug | Kimberley Woods | Canoeing | Women's kayak cross | |
| 18 | 06-Aug | Sky Brown | Skateboarding | Women's park | |
| 19 | 06-Aug | Lewis Richardson | Boxing | Men's welterweight | |
| 20 | 07-Aug | Elinor Barker Josie Knight Anna Morris Jess Roberts | Cycling | Women's team pursuit |
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