Overview
- The three-day meet runs March 20–22 in Torun with 674 athletes from 118 countries contesting 27 titles, with live coverage in France on france.tv/sport.
- Pole vault leader Armand Duplantis enters off a 6.31 m world record, and World Athletics president Sebastian Coe publicly urged on a potential 16th global mark at the runway.
- 800 m world record-holder Keely Hodgkinson began her campaign by winning her heat in 2:00.32 to reach Saturday’s semifinals ahead of a targeted first indoor world title.
- Event dynamics shift with the absences of Josh Hoey, Grant Holloway and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, opening lanes for rivals such as Portugal’s Isaac Nader in the middle distances.
- France travels with 24 athletes and five flagged medal hopes—Marie‑Julie Bonnin, Yann Schrub, Agathe Guillemot, Jonathan Seremes and Wilhem Belocian—with early progress for several French entrants in sprints and the 800 m.