Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will return from harm to race within the ladies’s 800m at this summer time’s London Athletics Meet on Saturday 19 July.
The 23-year was pressured to withdraw from February’s Keely Klassic in Birmingham due to a hamstring harm.
Finally 12 months’s occasion at London Stadium, Hodgkinson set a gathering report, nationwide report and private better of 1:54.61, which lifted her to sixth on the earth all-time rankings.
It will pave the best way for her to win gold on the Paris Video games and add to her Olympic silver from Tokyo, the place Hodgkinson will likely be aiming to assert the World Championship title later this 12 months.
“I keep in mind after final 12 months’s race pondering, ‘Can we try this once more?’,” mentioned Hodgkinson, who was topped BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr in 2024.
“It was such a dream to compete within the Olympic stadium and I am so excited to get again on the market and see what I can do.
“For me, that race actually set me up for what I did in Paris. I am now an Olympic champion which is a reasonably superb factor to say out loud, however I nonetheless have not gained world gold, so I’ve actually massive objectives this summer time.
“Having that crowd behind me in London, plus a bunch of super-quick women to race in opposition to, would be the very best preparation as I construct in the direction of the World Championships in Tokyo.”
The London Athletics Meet is the eleventh assembly of the 2025 Wanda Diamond League.
