Keely Hodgkinson is ready to contest her first race since being topped Olympic 800m champion 12 months in the past, after what she has described as a “irritating” and “upsetting” 12 months.

Hodgkinson, whose return from the hamstring damage she sustained in February has been delayed by setbacks, will make her long-awaited return to competitors on Saturday – 4 weeks earlier than the beginning of the World Championships in Tokyo.

The 23-year-old British observe star, a two-time world silver medallist, will race over 800m in Silesia, Poland, stay on the BBC.

“I feel tomorrow is only a stepping stone on the way in which [to the World Championships],” Hodgkinson stated at a information convention on Friday.

“I am wanting ahead to getting on the market and simply being aggressive once more. I’ve come out able to go, so I am simply excited to place one thing collectively.

“It has been a irritating 12 months, for actual. It has positively been a bit upsetting at occasions and lacking [July’s Diamond League meeting in] London was hardest for me as a result of it was so good final 12 months and I simply wished to be there in entrance of my dwelling crowd, particularly coming again after the Olympics.

“It has been irritating, but it surely makes the great occasions sweeter and it makes it even higher to be right here now.”