Overview
- The World Athletics Indoor Championships run March 20–22 in Torun, Poland, with multiple reigning world indoor titleholders and nine Paris 2024 individual gold medallists entered.
- Armand Duplantis arrives off a 6.31m world record set last week and pursues a fourth indoor crown to match Sergey Bubka, with Emmanouil Karalis emerging as a leading challenger after a 6.17m clearance.
- Keely Hodgkinson targets the women’s 800m after breaking the long‑standing indoor world record last month, with Audrey Werro and Olympic silver medallist Tsige Duguma highlighted as primary threats.
- The men’s 60m features defending champion Jeremiah Azu against a strong field led by Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson plus the USA’s world leader Jordan Anthony and former champion Trayvon Bromell.
- The men’s 3000m assembles the Paris Olympic 1500m podium of Cole Hocker, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse for a straight‑final showdown, with depth from contenders including Geordie Beamish, Azeddine Habz and Yann Schrub.