Olympic and European 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson will make her first competitive outing of 2025 at the Stockholm Diamond League on 15 June.
The British runner has not raced since winning gold at the Paris Olympics last August. A hamstring injury ruled out Hodgkinson from the indoor season and a potential third successive title at the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Her appearance in Stockholm will come one year and three days after she defended her 800m title at the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Royal recognitation
But she has returned to the spotlight this week, collecting an MBE from Prince William at Windsor Castle on Tuesday (13), before confirming her track comeback in the Swedish capital next month.
"I feel out of practice in a way, because by the time I do race it will be 10 months," she told BBC Sport.
"But it's nothing we haven't coped with before. It will be a challenge, the first race will be a nerve-wracking one because my last race I literally became Olympic champion. But I'm excited for it."
In Stockholm, she will face Olympic silver medallists Ethiopia's Tsige Duguma and Kenya's Mary Moraa in a fascinating Paris rematch.
On her royal appointment, Hodgkinson said: He (Prince William) said he remembered me winning last summer, and then my coach said that his kids are into athletics so I said that if he needed any tips he knows where to go."
Chris Broadbent for European Athletics