The 800 -meter Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will participate in her signature event during the Lauusanne Diamond League meeting on August 20.
This is the first competition that the age of 23 has participated since he withdrew two departures planned for his season, the competition of the Stockholm Diamond League of June and the meeting of London Athletics earlier this month.
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Hodgkinson was excluded from his own inaugural “Keely Klassic” in February with a question from the hamstrings, then underwent a reverse in front of Stockholm.
Her team said she was planning to arrive at the September athletics world championships in Tokyo in “Peak Form”, aimed at her first world title after finishing second at the last two world championships.
Georgia Hunter-Bell also entered the 800 meters (Adam Davy / PA)
The 800 meter in Lausanne will also feature his British compatriot Jemma Reekie, quadruple winner of the Diamond League, and the training partner of the M11 Track Club of Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter-Bell.
Hunter-Bell collected 1500 meters of bronze at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and won the 800 meters at the London Diamond League 2025 in a better season at a minute 56.74 seconds.
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The 31 -year -old man shared after her Triumph of London that she reflects on the idea of participating in the two intermediate distances in Tokyo, and could take advice to Dame Kelly Holmes, who won the two events at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
