Kelly Cartwright resumes as Kurt Fearnley takes a break Kelly Cartwright is ready to resume competition after a long break Source: News Limited ONE of Australia's "golden girls" from the London Paralympic Games is resuming competition after a long lay-off with injury. Victorian Kelly Cartwright, who won the long jump gold and 100m silver for leg amputees in last year's Paralympics, is competing in the Manchester City Games - one of the lead-up events to the Lyon IPC world championships (July 19-28). The IAAF world athletics championships are being held in Moscow in August. Cartwright underwent left ankle surgery late last year and it has taken time to get herself back into peak condition. "I'm terrified, excited and nervous all at the same time," the 24-year-old said. This weekend in Manchester will be my first competition since the London Paralympics and because I haven't competed at all in the domestic season. It is a little scary that my first event back will be an international competition that includes a lot of my rivals for from London and for Lyon. I want to get back on the plane after this event with an Athletics Australia A-qualifier for the IPC worlds under my belt. That's my aim and hopefully the information we have from my training will translate into something that builds my confidence on return from surgery. But missing from that Australian team for Lyon will be the reigning world marathon champion from Christchurch in 2011 and bronze medallist in London, Kurt Fearnley. The Novocastrian has had a busy and emotional 2103 season already. He won the OzDay 10Km international wheelchair race around Sydney's Rocks district in January and then was fifth in the terrorist-affected Boston marathon in April and first in the London marathon a week later. "It was a tough decision to make but one that will definitely help me in the long term," Fearnley, who is a five-time medalist at IPC world championships level. Major meets like the IPC world championships, Commonwealth Games and Paralympic Games really take it out of you. You spend a lot of time away from home and lot of physical and mental energy in the lead up to, during and post event. I'm not getting any younger and finding a balance between competing at major competitions and taking a break is very important. "I have a major meet every year for the next five years and on the back of the London Paralympics - and with my eyes firmly on the 2016 Games in Rio - 2013 is the best opportunity to spend some time at home and take a break," Fearnley said. I hope to defend my Commonwealth Games gold medal from 2010 in Glasgow, before the IPC Worlds in Doha in 2015 and then back to the ultimate in Rio the year after. I'll be in better shape for all of them if I take a break this year.