Nationwide titles and locations within the staff for subsequent month’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow are up for grabs on the Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham this weekend (Feb 17-18).
The occasion shall be broadcast by BBC and options a number of the nation’s greatest names corresponding to Laura Muir, Morgan Lake and Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
Listed here are a number of the potential highlights and sure contenders.
Muir is contemporary from a two miles European report of 9:04.84 on the Millrose Video games final Sunday and right here faces Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Hannah Nuttall and Amy-Eloise Neale over 3000m.
Laura Muir (Getty)
The ladies’s 1500m must also be an incredible race with Georgia Bell taking up Revee Walcott-Nolan and Sarah McDonald. Bell has been one of many revelations of the indoor season thus far with PBs of 4:03.22 for 1500m and eight:42.16 for 3000m plus 4 race victories throughout Europe, however Walcott-Nolan and McDonald have additionally been in good condition these days.
The lads’s 1500m sees one other breakthrough athlete, Adam Fogg, the US-based Brit who ran a giant mile PB of three:49.62 on the Millrose Video games just a few days in the past. He faces Callum Elson amongst others.
Georgia Bell (David Lowes)
The 60m finals are all the time a giant spotlight on Saturday afternoon and the boys’s race sees Jeremiah Azu going through Adam Thomas and Ojie Edoburun whereas Dwain Chambers, the previous world indoor champion, can be within the entries aged 45.
Asha Phillip, Amy Hunt, Mabel Akande, Religion Akinbileje and Nia Wedderburn-Goodison, in the meantime, characteristic within the ladies’s 60m.
Zac Shaw (Mark Shearman)
Look out for the para 60m races, too, with Olivia Breen, Maria Lyle, Kevin Santos, Zac Shaw and Jonnie Peacock.
Cindy Sember shall be robust favorite to win the ladies’s 60m hurdles crown after exhibiting near-PB form just lately, whereas David King faces Tade Ojora within the males’s dash hurdles.
Within the jumps, Morgan Lake goes within the excessive bounce, Abigail Irozuru within the lengthy bounce and Molly Caudery and Harry Coppell within the pole vault.
Jemma Reekie (Bobby Gavin)
The 800m races characteristic athletes who shall be hoping to make their mark on residence soil in Glasgow in a few weeks’ time – Jemma Reekie and Man Learmonth. The ladies’s occasion is especially robust with Reekie taking up Issy Boffey, Ellie Baker and Erin Wallace.
One other stacked occasion is the ladies’s 400m and it has the makings of the race of the weekend. Laviai Nielsen has run 51.11 thus far this season and he or she faces Jessie Knight and Nicole Yeargin.
Laviai Nielsen (World Athletics)
With Charlie Carvell, Lee Thompson and Ben Higgins, the boys’s 400m additionally seems like an thrilling occasion.
Johnson-Thompson, the world heptathlon champion, has a quiet weekend as she is entered within the shot put solely. Contenders for the shot titles, although, embrace Amelia Campbell (née Strickler), Sophie McKinna, Serena Vincent and Scott Lincoln.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Bjorn Paree)
The motion begins on the Utilita Area at 11.25am on Saturday and 11.30am on Sunday. For the complete timetable, see right here.
