Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will make her long-awaited return from injury at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on 20 August.
The 23-year-old Briton has not raced competitively since profitable gold in Paris final August after struggling a hamstring tear in February.
After a minor setback led to her withdrawing from Diamond League conferences in Stockholm and London, Hodgkinson is ready to make her comeback only a month earlier than the beginning of the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.
“Third time’s a allure!” she wrote on Instagram in reply to a submit from the occasion organisers saying her return.
Hodgkinson is aiming to discover prime type in time for the Worlds in September as she bids to go one higher than the silver medals she gained in 2022 and 2023.
The British 800m report holder will face compatriots Jemma Reekie and Georgia Hunter Bell, who triumphed in Hodgkinson’s absence in London, on her return in Switzerland.
The occasion in Lausanne is the thirteenth of 15 within the Diamond League this season.
It concludes in Zurich on 27-28 August earlier than the start of the World Championships on 21 September.