Olympic 800m champion set her nationwide document of 1:54.61 within the British capital final 12 months
Keely Hodgkinson has withdrawn from the London Diamond League and delayed her season opener by just a few extra weeks to make sure she is totally race-ready.
The 23-year-old was meant to start out her out of doors season ultimately month’s Stockholm Diamond League however needed to pull out after struggling a minor setback in her restoration from a hamstring harm.
The Olympic 800m champion sustained that harm simply earlier than her personal occasion, the Keely Klassic, again in February and hasn’t raced since she secured gold on the Video games final summer time.
Hodgkinson is now again in full coaching and is progressing quickly, with the aim of topping the 800m podium on the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo (September 13-21).
Ultimately 12 months’s London Diamond League, Hodgkinson set a British document of 1:54.61 to go sixth on the worldwide 800m all-time listing, ending forward of each Jemma Reekie (1:55.61) and Georgia Hunter Bell (1:56.28).
That mark was additionally the quickest time over 800m since Caster Semenya clocked 1:54.60 in Monaco in 2018.
Hodgkinson in fact backed up her nationwide document with an Olympic gold medal over two laps in Paris. Later within the 12 months, she was topped BBC Sports activities Persona of the 12 months and have become the primary particular person from athletics since Mo Farah in 2017 to assert the prize.
Two months in the past, the Brit obtained an MBE – for companies to athletics – from Prince William at Windsor Fortress.
