{"id":16988,"date":"2025-07-12T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/keely-hodgkinson-to-miss-london-diamond-league-event-as-injury-recovery-continues\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:03:08","slug":"keely-hodgkinson-to-miss-london-diamond-league-event-as-injury-recovery-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/keely-hodgkinson-to-miss-london-diamond-league-event-as-injury-recovery-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Keely Hodgkinson to miss London Diamond League event as injury recovery continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will not compete at next weekend&#8217;s London Diamond League as she continues to make her way back to full fitness.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old Briton is yet to start her outdoor season after tearing her hamstring in February and has not raced since winning 800m gold at the Paris Olympics on 5 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hodgkinson is back in full training after suffering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/ced2306ppjqo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">minor setback in June<\/a> but has made the decision to delay her season opener to make sure she is completely ready to race with London coming too soon in her comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finding top form in time for September&#8217;s World Championships in Tokyo, Japan is the priority for Manchester-born runner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having won silver at the Worlds in 2022 and 2023, she will hope to go one better this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hodgkinson, who was awarded an MBE in May, won 800m Olympic gold in Paris last summer with a stunning one minute 56.72 seconds run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also set a British record time of 1:54.61 at London Stadium in 2024 but the focus on collecting another global medal means sacrificing the chance to race on the same track this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hodgkinson is another high-profile withdrawal from the London Diamond League following Norway&#8217;s 1500m star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who had been set to renew his rivalry with Britain&#8217;s Josh Kerr but will miss out with an injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The meet in London on 19 July is the 11th of 15 in the Diamond League this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cx2gjwxj0evo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will not compete at next weekend&#8217;s London Diamond League as she continues to make her way back to full fitness. The 23-year-old Briton is yet to start her outdoor season after tearing her hamstring in February and has not raced since winning 800m gold at the Paris Olympics on 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16990,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions\/16990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}