How to follow Hodgkinson's 800m at Stockholm Diamond League

Keely Hodgkinson will run her first outdoor 800m of the season on Sunday at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting, which is live on BBC Two from 16:00 BST.

Britain's Olympic 800m champion started her outdoor season by running a personal best time of 51.14 seconds to finish seventh in the 400m at the Rome Diamond League on Thursday.

The 24-year-old, who smashed the world indoor 800m record in February, is aiming to beat Jarmila Kratochvilova's 43-year-old outdoor world record this season, ideally on home soil at the London Diamond League event in July.

Sunday's race will give a clear indication how close she is to Kratochvilova's record time of one minute 53.28 seconds.

Hodgkinson will take on Diamond League champion Audrey Werro, who impressed with a time of 1:56.56 to win in Rabat last weekend.

The Briton's personal best is 1:54.61 set in London in the build-up to her triumph at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Home favourite Armand Duplantis returns to Stockholm where he cleared 6.28m last year to break his own world record in the men's pole vault.

The Olympic and world champion broke the world record four times in 2025 and in March this year pushed the record up to 6.31m at the Mondo Classic - an indoor pole vault-only event in Uppsala, Sweden named after him

The 26-year-old started his 2026 outdoor season with a winning height of 6.12m in Shanghai last month.

American star Melissa Jefferson-Wooden will race in the women's 100m, taking on Britain's Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt.

Matthew Hudson-Smith, Charlie Dobson, Ben Pattison and Jake Wightman are among other British athletes competing.

You can watch coverage live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app from 16:00 BST on Sunday.

Sunday, 7 June (All times BST)

* British athletes in brackets

After Stockholm, Hodgkinson will race over 800m at Diamond League meetings in Eugene and London.

Training partner Hunter Bell and reigning world 800m champion Lilian Odira will also be competing at the Prefontaine Classic as the three medallists from Tokyo are reunited in Eugene.

Josh Kerr has announced he will attempt to break the long-standing men's mile world record at the London Diamond League meeting this summer.

The London Athletics Meet will be a key date in the diary of many British stars, with a women's 200m showdown between relay team-mates Hunt, Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita among the standout events.

The Diamond League - athletics' premier one-day meeting series - consists of 15 stops, this year culminating in a two-day final in Brussels in September.

Athletes compete for points across 32 Diamond League disciplines at the 14 regular series meetings in a bid to qualify for the finals.

The top six athletes in field events, top eight in track events from 100m up to 800m, and top 10 in distances from 1500m upwards, will qualify for the finals.

The finals, which precede the inaugural season-ending World Athletics Ultimate Championship, are a winner-takes-all showdown to be crowned Diamond League champion in each event.

All Diamond League events will be shown on the BBC until 2030 after a new multi-year deal was agreed last year.

The total prize money remains the same as 2025, when it was increased to $9.2m (£6.8m) - including $500,000 (£370,000) at each of the 14 series meetings, and $2.2m (£1.6m) at the Diamond League final.

However, the prize money structure has been altered to provide higher earnings to the winners of eight selected 'Diamond+' disciplines' at each meet, which offer $20,000 (£14,800) at series meetings and up to $60,000 (£44,400) at the finals.