Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson won’t compete at subsequent weekend’s London Diamond League as she continues to make her approach again to full health.
The 23-year-old Briton is but to begin her out of doors season after tearing her hamstring in February and has not raced since profitable 800m gold on the Paris Olympics on 5 August.
Hodgkinson is again in full coaching after struggling a minor setback in June however has made the choice to delay her season opener to ensure she is totally able to race with London coming too quickly in her comeback.
Discovering high type in time for September’s World Championships in Tokyo, Japan is the precedence for Manchester-born runner.
Having gained silver on the Worlds in 2022 and 2023, she is going to hope to go one higher this 12 months.
Hodgkinson, who was awarded an MBE in Might, gained 800m Olympic gold in Paris final summer time with a surprising one minute 56.72 seconds run.
She additionally set a British report time of 1:54.61 at London Stadium in 2024 however the give attention to amassing one other world medal means sacrificing the possibility to race on the identical observe this month.
Hodgkinson is one other high-profile withdrawal from the London Diamond League following Norway’s 1500m star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who had been set to resume his rivalry with Britain’s Josh Kerr however will miss out with an damage.
The meet in London on 19 July is the eleventh of 15 within the Diamond League this season.
