That is the compiled information on the World Indoors in Nanjing, China, which will probably be held on March 21-23, 2025. This information is from our mates at EME Information. We use this with permission and a subscription.
WORLD INDOORS NEWS (March 13, 2025)
MELBOURNE (AUS): Reigning World Indoor Champion Nicola Olyslagers headlines the 20-strong Australian staff for the World Indoor Championships. She will probably be joined within the girls’s excessive bounce by 2022 World Champion Eleanor Patterson. Additionally on the staff are sprinters Torrie Lewis and Lachlan Kennedy, pole vaulters Kurtis Marschall and Camryn Newton-Smith within the pentathlon, the primary Australian pentathlete at these championships since 1999.
ROME (ITA): A staff of 21 athletes will signify Italy at subsequent week’s World Indoor Championships. Within the staff are current European Indoor Champions Andy Diaz Hernandez (triple bounce) and Zaynab Dosso (60m), plus medallists Mattia Furlani (lengthy bounce) and Andrea Dallavalle (triple bounce). Shot putters Leonardo Fabbri, Zane Weir, and hurdler Lorenzo Simonelli can even compete.
PRAGUE (CZE): The Czech Athletics Federation has introduced 11 athletes will compete on the World Indoor Championships, together with European Indoor Championship medallist Jan Stefela (excessive bounce), Amalie Svabikova (pole vault), Vilem Strasky (heptathlon), Jakub Dudycha (800m) and Filip Sasinek (1500m).
AUCKLAND (NZL): New Zealand will ship its largest-ever staff to the World Indoor Championships, with 12 athletes. Reigning World Indoor Champion Hamish Kerr will look to defend his excessive bounce title. Additionally on the staff are shot putters Tom Walsh and Jacko Gill, Olympic silver medallist Maddi Wesche, pole vaulters Imogen Ayris and Olivia McTaggart, sprinter Zoe Hobbs, and 1500m runner Maia Ramsden.
NAIROBI (KEN): Athletics Kenya has chosen 5 males and 5 girls to signify Kenya on the World Indoor Championships. They embody Olympians Lilian Odira and Vivian Chebet within the 800m, 2022 World Indoor silver medallist Noah Kibet within the 800m, Susan Ejore within the 1500m, and Cornelius Kemboi within the 3000m.
KINGSTON (JAM): Talking to Tv Jamaica, coach Stephen Francis has confirmed that Kishane Thompson suffered a slight ankle harm throughout coaching, so he won’t compete on the World Indoor Championships. The harm meant Thompson required just a few days relaxation, which resulted in him not being at his peak throughout the championships.
WARSAW (POL): The Polish Athletics Federation has introduced that it’ll now ship a girls’s 4x400m staff to the World Indoor Championships because of the reallocation of locations. Becoming a member of Justyna Święty-Ersetic, beforehand introduced for the person 400m, will probably be Aleksandra Formella, Anastasia Kuś, Anna Maria Gryc, and Anna Palys.
TOKYO (JPN): An fascinating Japanese entry is the nationwide 110 m hurdles document holder Shunsuke Izumiya, who’s listed for the lengthy bounce. His finest is of excellent high quality, 814 cm.
WORLD INDOORS NEWS (March 14, 2025)
INDIANAPOLIS (USA): USATF has introduced that 56 athletes will signify the US of America at subsequent week’s World Indoor Championships. Included within the staff are ten medallists from final 12 months’s version, together with Grant Holloway (60m hurdles), Monae’ Nichols (lengthy bounce), and Chase Jackson (shot put). Different notable entrants embody Sam Kendricks (pole vault), Alexis Holmes (400m), Ronnie Baker (60m) and Will Claye (triple bounce).
LISBON (POR): The Portuguese Athletics Federation has confirmed that seven athletes will compete on the World Indoor Championships. They embody Salome Afonso, who received medals within the 1500m and 3000m on the European Indoor Championships and can contest the 1500m solely, and shot putter Auriol Dongmo. 1500m bronze medallist Isaac Nader can be on the staff.
ROME (ITA): Andrea Dallavalle has withdrawn from the Italian staff for the World Indoor Championships as a result of a foot harm, FIDAL informs. Dallavalle received bronze ultimately weekend’s European Indoor Championships.
WORLD INDOORS NEWS (March 15, 2025)
BIRMINGHAM (GBR): British runner George Mills is out for World Indoors after choosing up an sickness after the European Indoor Championships, the place he got here away with a silver medal within the 3000m behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen, by way of CITIUS MAG.
BRIDGETOWN (BAR): Barbados may have a four-person staff for Nanjing subsequent week. Kishawna Niles for ladies in 60 m was the lone lady within the quartet introduced by the Athletics Affiliation of Barbados on Friday alongside Julian Forde in 60 m, Nikkolia Kennedy in 60m Hurdles, and Rasheeme Griffith in 400 m.
KINGSTON (JAM): Jamaica has named a strong squad for the upcoming World Indoors. The 23-member staff options a number of the island’s prime indoor performers, together with 60m hurdles sensation Ackera Nugent and Olympic lengthy bounce silver medalist Wayne Pinnock, who is predicted to problem for podium finishes within the lengthy bounce, 2019 World Champion Tajay Gayle additionally took half. With Olympic silver medalist Kishane Thompson dominated out as a result of harm, Nishion Ebanks and Rohan Watson will compete within the 60 m. Travis Williams is listed as a reserve. Males 4×400 m can even compete.
WORLD INDOORS NEWS (March 17, 2025)
NANJING (CHN): World U20 champion Jana Koscak from Croatia was not in Apeldoorn however acquired the place within the Nanjing pentathlon. She is contemplating attacking the official U20 World document of 4542 factors by Ukrainian Alina Shukh from 2017. “I can do it, however we’ll see the way it seems. I’m most afraid of the time distinction as a result of they’re seven hours forward of us, and I at all times have just a little hassle going from west to east. We’re touring on Sunday, I hope I’ll modify by Friday, and if every little thing goes properly, I’ll attempt to chase the world document. Taking a look at my data by self-discipline, I’ve outcomes for the document, however every little thing must match up; there are a whole lot of query marks,” she mentioned for Sportske Novosti.
DUBLIN (IRL): Mark English (sickness) and Cian McPhillips (harm) are two late withdrawals from the Irish staff for the World Indoor Championships.
PARIS (FRA): European indoor 1500m champion Agathe Guillemot has pulled out of the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing as a result of flu.
PRAGUE (CZE): As a result of sickness, Radek Juška won’t compete within the lengthy bounce on the World Indoor Championships.
BIRMINGHAM (GBR): Two-time European U20 cross-country champion Innes FitzGerald has additionally pulled out of the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing as a result of sickness.
ST. GEORGE’S (GRN): Decathlon Olympic bronze medallist Lindon Victor knowledgeable on Instagram that he won’t compete on the World Indoors.
STOCKHOLM (SWE): European indoor 60m bronze medallist Henrik Larsson has opted to not compete on the World Indoor Championships, informs SVT. “Now I wish to beat my private bests in 100 and 200 meters and see if I can dip underneath ten seconds in 100 meters. I actually really feel I’ve the potential for it,” he mentioned.
PORT OF SPAIN (TTO): Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards, the 2022 World Indoor 400m champion, has opted to skip the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, to concentrate on the outside season, notably the inaugural Grand Slam Observe Collection (GST) and the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September. “With the Grand Slam and all of the meets it has this 12 months, and with the [World] Championship being late, I really feel prefer it makes extra sense to simply concentrate on the outside season,” mentioned Richards. By way of Sportsmax.television.
NANJING (CHN): Recent European Indoor champion Attila Molnar from Hungary is already in China and has the primary coaching behind him. It was within the outside stadium as the sector was present process the final preparations. For the Hungarian document holder, fascinating information: together with his colleagues, they are going to have just one race within the 4×400 m as entered are 5 groups moreover Hungary, USA, Jamaica, Nigeria, and the house staff of China.
