UK Athletics Indoor Championships: Olympic medallists Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Georgia Hunter Bell in motion

Olympic stars Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Georgia Hunter Bell are amongst these competing for British titles on the UK Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham this weekend.

The 2-day occasion, dwell on the BBC, will double because the British trials for the European Athletics Indoor Championships, which occur in Apeldoorn, within the Netherlands, from 6-9 March.

Johnson-Thompson, who ended her watch for an Olympic medal with heptathlon silver at Paris 2024, is entered within the 60m hurdles and shot put occasions at Utilita Area.

Olympic bronze medallist Hunter Bell will search to defend her British indoor 1500m title, whereas world indoor champion Molly Caudery competes within the girls’s pole vault.

Laura Muir will purpose for her tenth British title as she races within the girls’s 3,000m, and former world 1500m champion Jake Wightman can be in motion.

An thrilling girls’s 400m options Olympic relay medallists Amber Anning, Victoria Ohuruogu, Lina Nielsen and Hannah Kelly.

The highest two finishers in every remaining will safe a spot on the crew for the European Indoor Championships, supplied they’ve achieved the qualification commonplace or a world rating place of their occasion.

Keely Hodgkinson is one high-profile identify lacking after the Olympic 800m champion suffered a hamstring tear earlier in February.

The European Indoor Championships are adopted by the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, from 21-23 March.

The most recent athlete entry record is out there on the British Athletics web site., exterior

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