Hunter Bell, Caudery & Azu lead GB World Indoor medal hopes

Georgia Hunter Bell, Molly Caudery and Jeremiah Azu volition beryllium among Great Britain's golden medal hopes astatine the World Athletics Indoor Championships successful Nanjing, China.

The trio are portion of an 11-strong British team, captained by 1500m runner Neil Gourley, competing astatine the three-day championships, which commencement connected Friday.

Armand Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Yaroslava Mahuchikh are among the planetary stars competing for honours.

The World Indoors usually instrumentality spot each 2 years, but the lawsuit successful Nanjing had to beryllium postponed successful 2020, 2021 and 2023, due to the fact that of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Because Glasgow was awarded the lawsuit successful 2024 and the bid process had already begun for the 2026 edition, Nanjing was allocated 2025.

It means athletes person 2 opportunities to triumph planetary titles this year, with the outdoor championships taking spot successful Tokyo, Japan successful September.

Hunter Bell volition purpose to bounce backmost from the disappointment of missing retired connected the podium astatine the European Indoor Championships 2 weeks ago.

The Olympic 1500m bronze medallist, 31, was the beardown favourite successful Apeldoorn but faded to 4th successful the closing stages, arsenic team-mate Revee Walcott-Nolan clinched her archetypal planetary medal.

Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay is the standout favourite for golden successful Nanjing. The eight-time planetary medallist boasts a season's champion clip 5 seconds quicker than anyone this year, having tally 3 minutes 53.92 seconds successful February.

Compatriot Diribe Welteji and American Heather MacLean person some besides gone nether 4 minutes successful 2025, with Hunter Bell fourth-fastest successful the line-up with a season's champion clip of 4:00.63.

Like Hunter Bell, Caudery enjoyed a accelerated emergence to prominence successful 2024, winning the satellite indoor rubric 12 months agone portion her British grounds clearance implicit 4.92m was unmatched successful 2024.

But the 25-year-old was near devastated aft failing to suffice for the last astatine Paris 2024.

Caudery chose to skip the European Indoors to absorption connected her satellite rubric defence portion she manages a tiny calf injury, and enters the contention with the starring season's champion aft clearing 4.85m successful February.

Azu, 23, volition question to usage his European gold, which represented his archetypal idiosyncratic planetary medal, arsenic a springboard to a planetary podium successful the men's 60m.

Olympic 400m finalist Amber Anning volition anticipation to situation successful different large last pursuing her disqualification astatine the European Indoors for a lane infringement.

However, European 3,000m metallic medallist George Mills and Innes FitzGerald were some forced to retreat from the squad due to the fact that of illness.

Swedish prima Duplantis improved his men's rod vault world grounds to 6.27m successful February and the Swedish prima volition look to enactment connected a amusement erstwhile again arsenic helium aims for a 3rd satellite indoor rubric successful 4 years.

The two-time reigning Olympic champion, 1 of the sport's biggest names, has breached the satellite grounds a singular 11 times by the property of 25 and has six planetary titles to his name.

While Ingebrigtsen secured a record-equalling seventh European indoor golden with a 3rd consecutive 1500m and 3,000m treble earlier this month, the Tokyo Olympic champion is yet to triumph a satellite 1500m title.

The 24-year-old Norwegian had to settee for indoor metallic successful 2022, arsenic helium did outdoors successful some 2022 and 2023 - finishing 2nd to Britons Jake Wightman and Josh Kerr - and volition beryllium determined to spell 1 amended present arsenic helium seeks to replicate that treble connected the planetary stage.

Elsewhere, women's precocious leap Olympic champion and satellite grounds holder Mahuchikh volition look to regain the satellite rubric she won successful 2022, portion American Grant Holloway volition pursuit his sixth consecutive planetary hurdles title.

Women

60m - Amy Hunt

400m - Amber Anning

1500m - Georgia Hunter Bell, Revee Walcott-Nolan

Pole Vault - Molly Caudery

Long Jump - Funminiyi Olajide

Men

60m - Jeremiah Azu, Andy Robertson

1500m - Adam Fogg, Neil Gourley

Shot enactment - Scott Lincoln

All times GMT.

Friday, 21 March

Morning league unrecorded streaming 02:00 - 06:00

Evening league unrecorded connected BBC Two 10:30 -14:00

Finals: Men's triple leap (03:05), men's precocious leap (10:30), women's changeable enactment (11:50), women's pentathlon 800m (13:15), (men's 60m (13:24)

Saturday, 22 March

Morning league unrecorded streaming 02:00 - 05:00

Evening league unrecorded connected BBC Two 10:30 - 14:00

Finals: Women's rod vault (02:10), men's rod vault (10:34), women's triple leap (11:10), women's 3,000m (11:15), men's 3,000m (11:35), women's 400m (12:44), men's 400m (12:55), men's 60m hurdles (13:05), women's 60m (13:18)

Sunday, 23 March

Morning league unrecorded streaming 02:00 - 04:00

Evening league unrecorded connected BBC Two 11:00 -14:00

Finals: Women's agelong leap (02:19), women's precocious leap (03:35), men's changeable enactment (11:38), men's agelong leap (11:40), men's heptathlon 1,000m (12:02), men's 1500m (12:15), women's 1500m (12:28), men's 800m (12:40), women's 800m (12:54), women's 60m hurdles (12:57), men's 4x400m relay (13:11), women's 4x400m relay ( 13:21)