Keely Hodgkinson targets Stockholm for an early-season 800m

Olympic champion returns to Diamond League within the capital of Sweden for the primary time since 2022.

Keely Hodgkinson’s summer season racing plan will embody the BAUHAUS-galan assembly in Stockholm on June 7.

The Olympic 800m champion will race in her specialist occasion forward of targets that embody the London Diamond League and European Championships in Birmingham though the Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow doesn’t determine in her plans.

“I’m actually trying ahead to returning to Stockholm,“ she says. „It was disappointing to need to withdraw final 12 months. I really like the group at Stockholm Olympic Stadium and I’m excited for an awesome race. I hope as many individuals as potential will likely be there.“

After successful Olympic gold in Paris 2024, the British athlete confronted a interval with harm. She was scheduled to open her season at BAUHAUS-galan final 12 months however needed to delay her return because of ongoing hamstring points. On the World Championships, she needed to accept bronze behind coaching companion Georgia Hunter Bell and the winner, Lilian Odira of Kenya.

This winter she ran 1:54.87 — smashing Jolanda Čeplak’s 24-year-old world document by practically a full second – and goes for gold in Poland in coming days on the World Indoor Championships.

She has competed on the 800m in Stockholm twice up to now — in 2022 and 2021 — ending second and fourth. Her first competitors in Sweden, nevertheless, dates again to the 2019 European Underneath-20 Championships in Borås, the place she claimed bronze within the 800m.