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 objectives 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 wanting ahead to returning to Stockholm,” she says. “It was disappointing to should withdraw final yr. I really like the gang at Stockholm Olympic Stadium and I’m excited for an awesome race. I hope as many individuals as attainable can be there.”
After profitable Olympic gold in Paris 2024, the British athlete confronted a interval with damage. She was scheduled to open her season at BAUHAUS-galan final yr however needed to delay her return as a consequence of ongoing hamstring points. On the World Championships, she needed to accept bronze behind coaching associate 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 file 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, nonetheless, dates again to the 2019 European Beneath-20 Championships in Borås, the place she claimed bronze within the 800m.
