OLYMPIC 800-metre champion Keely Hodgkinson will not open her outdoor season on Sunday in Stockholm as planned due to a setback in her recovery from a hamstring issue.

The 23-year-old, who stormed to gold last summer in Paris, was expected to line up against reigning world champion Mary Moraa in the Diamond League event.

Britons Jemma Reekie and Georgia Hunter Bell – the Olympic 1500 metres bronze medallist – are still set to challenge the Kenyan in Sweden.

Hodgkinson, who still hopes to unseat Moraa at September’s world championships in Tokyo, was forced to pull out of her own inaugural Keely Klassic event in Birmingham after tearing her hamstring in February, also ending her indoor season.

At the time, she told Sky Sports News she expected recovery to take “up to six weeks, it could be quicker, it could be longer, but it shouldn’t affect my outdoor season.”