Keely Hodgkinson set to make comeback from injury

Keely Hodgkinson is set to make her return after a lengthy injury

The British track star won gold at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer

Hodgkinson plans to compete at the Diamond League in Stockholm in June

Keely Hodgkinson plans to make her comeback from injury at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting in June, in what will be her first race since winning Olympic gold last summer.

The British 800 metres star tore her hamstring in February, ruling her out of her own Keely Klassic event, as well as the European and World Indoor Championships.

However, Hodgkinson was back running on the track this week at a training camp in Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Mail Sport understands the 23-year-old now hopes to make her racing return at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium on June 15, putting her firmly on course for the World Championships in September.

‘Eight weeks after my hamstring tear we did our first track session back in spikes,’ Hodgkinson wrote on Instagram. ‘Lots of rehab later and with much more to progress, happy to be back.’

After Stockholm, Hodgkinson is down to compete at the Prefontaine Classic – the Eugene Diamond League event – on July 5. There, she will face Tsige Duguma and Mary Moraa, who claimed silver and bronze behind her in the Olympic 800m final in Paris.