Hunter Bell bids to add to GB World Indoor medal tally
World Athletics Indoor Championships
Venue: Nanjing, China Date: Friday21 - Sunday, 23 March
Coverage: Watch on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app
Georgia Hunter Bell will bid to add to Great Britain's medal tally after success for Jeremiah Azu at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.
The Olympic 1500m bronze medallist is part of an 11-strong British team competing at the three-day championships, with coverage across BBC platforms from Friday.
Armand Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Yaroslava Mahuchikh are among the global stars competing for honours.
The World Indoors usually take place every two years, but the event in Nanjing had to be postponed in 2020, 2021 and 2023, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Because Glasgow was awarded the event in 2024 and the bid process had already begun for the 2026 edition, Nanjing was allocated 2025.
It means athletes have two opportunities to win global titles this year, with the outdoor championships taking place in Tokyo, Japan in September.
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Great Britain won one medal on the opening day of the competition, with European indoor champion Jeremiah Azu storming to 60m gold.
Hunter Bell will aim to bounce back from the disappointment of missing out on the podium at the European Indoor Championships two weeks ago.
The Olympic 1500m bronze medallist, 31, was the strong favourite in Apeldoorn but faded to fourth in the closing stages, as team-mate Revee Walcott-Nolan clinched her first international medal.
She has qualified for Sunday's final, where Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay is the standout favourite for gold. The eight-time global medallist boasts a season's best time five seconds quicker than anyone this year, having run three minutes 53.92 seconds in February.
Compatriot Diribe Welteji and American Heather MacLean have both also gone under four minutes in 2025, with Hunter Bell fourth-fastest in the line-up with a season's best time of 4:00.63.
Duplantis and Ingebrigtsen aim to light up Nanjing
Swedish star Duplantis improved his men's pole vault world record to 6.27m in February and the Swedish star will look to put on a show once again as he aims for a third world indoor title in four years.
The two-time reigning Olympic champion, one of the sport's biggest names, has broken the world record a remarkable 11 times by the age of 25 and has six global titles to his name.
While Ingebrigtsen secured a record-equalling seventh European indoor gold with a third consecutive 1500m and 3,000m double earlier this month, the Tokyo Olympic champion is yet to win a world 1500m title.
The 24-year-old Norwegian had to settle for indoor silver in 2022, as he did outdoors in both 2022 and 2023 - finishing second to Britons Jake Wightman and Josh Kerr - and will be determined to go one better here as he seeks to replicate that double on the global stage.
Elsewhere, women's high jump Olympic champion and world record holder Mahuchikh will look to regain the world title she won in 2022, while American Grant Holloway will chase his sixth consecutive global hurdles title.
Who is in the GB team?
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 put - Scott Lincoln
How to watch the World Indoor Championships
All times GMT.
Friday, 21 March
Saturday, 22 March
02:00 - 04:40 BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app
10:30 - 13:45 BBC Two
Finals: Women's pole vault (02:10), men's pole vault (10:34), women's triple jump (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
02:00 - 05:45 BBC iPlayer, BBC Sport website & app
11:00 -13:45 BBC Two
Finals: Women's long jump (02:19), women's high jump (03:35), men's shot put (11:38), men's long jump (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)
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