World Indoor Championships: Workforce Canada distance preview

We’re someday away from the beginning of the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Fourteen athletes will characterize Workforce Canada throughout six action-packed periods over three days of intense competitors, with lots of the finest athletes on the planet competing for the title of world champion.

Here’s a transient occasion preview of the gap occasions: 800m, 1,500m and three,000m races on the 2024 World Indoor Championships.

Ladies’s 800m

The ladies’s 800m is certainly one of three middle-distance occasions, with two Canadian athletes. Madeleine Kelly has gotten sooner in every of her races this yr, her most up-to-date being 2:00.93. Her indoor PB of two:00.11 dates to 2022, which noticed her qualify for her first World Indoor Championships, held in Belgrade, Serbia. Kelly might be joined by Jazz Shukla, who has raced twice over the gap to date this season. Her quickest time, 2:01.34, got here on the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston earlier this month. That observe can also be house to her indoor PB of two:01.00, set final yr.

It will likely be a World Indoor Championship debut for Shukla, who, like Kelly, competed on the World Championships in Budapest final summer season. It was a contest to recollect for Shukla, who improved her PB within the heats (2:00.30) and once more within the semi-final (2:00.23). 

5 athletes entered have run inside two minutes this season, whereas eight have indoor PBs below that mark. The 2 quickest athletes this season, Ethiopian Habitam Alemu and Nice Britain’s Jemma Reekie, will compete right here; the previous is making her World Indoor debut and the Scot might be searching for success in her house nation. Halimah Nakaayi, the 2019 World Champion from Uganda, can also be entered.

Heats: Friday, March 1–6:40 a.m. ET

Semi-finals: Saturday, March 2–7:10 a.m. ET

Remaining: Sunday, March 3–4:20 p.m. ET

Ladies’s 1,500m

Lucia Stafford returns for her second World Indoor Championships and might be joined by Simone Plourde within the 1,500m. Stafford has raced a number of occasions to date this yr, together with on the NB Indoor Grand Prix and Millrose Video games. Her quickest time of the season (4:06.80) got here on the latter, a mid-race cut up through the mile race. She completed eighth within the 1,500m remaining in Belgrade two years in the past. 

Like Stafford, Plourde’s just one,500m time for the yr got here within the mile on the Millrose Video games; her 4:06.98 was an indoor PB. Plourde joined Stafford in Budapest final yr, and this might be her first World Indoor Championships. 

With Freweyni Hailu having a wild card because the winner of the World Indoor Tour, there might be three Ethiopian athletes competing in Glasgow, and there’s a honest probability they might full the rostrum. They’re the one athletes to have run inside 4 minutes this yr, and are virtually 5 seconds sooner than anybody else within the subject. All three have improved their PBs this yr; Hailu to three:55.28, Diribe Welteji to three:55.47 and Birke Haylom to three:58.43.

Heats: Friday, March 1–2:05 p.m. ET

Remaining: Sunday, March 3–4:45 p.m. ET

Ladies’s 3,000m 

There are not any Canadians within the girls’s 3,000m, however an thrilling race is near-guaranteed. Nice Britain’s Laura Muir might be searching for success on her house observe, the place she received the three,000m and 1,500m on the European Indoor Championships in 2019. She received the two-mile on the Millrose Video games and cut up 8:31.45 for 3,000m in that race.

The favorite is probably going Gudaf Tsegay. The Ethiopian clocked 8:17.11 to simply miss the world report on the NB Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, though this was not as shut as her 8:16.69 mark from Birmingham final yr–only a tenth of a second shy of the WR. 

Jessica Hull of Australia and American Elle St. Pierre have raced one another at each the NB Indoor Grand Prix and Millrose Video games, the previous successful in Boston and the latter in New York. Hull’s 8:24.93 in Boston was an Oceanic report, with St. Pierre simply behind in 8:25.25. Younger Ethiopian Melknat Wudu (8:32.02) may additionally be one to look at. 

Remaining: Saturday, March 2–3:15 p.m. ET

Males’s 800m

The boys’s 800m is presumably essentially the most open of the middle-distance occasions in Glasgow, with world champion Marco Arop sitting out. Reigning world indoor champion Mariano Garcia of Spain returns to defend his title, as do the silver and bronze medallists Noah Kibet of Kenya and American Bryce Hoppel.

The world lead is held by Catalin Tecuceanu at 1:45.00, which the Italian set on the World Indoor Tour remaining in Madrid final Friday (a brand new Italian report.) Different notable performances this season have come from Belgian Elliot Crestan (1:45.10), Abdelati El Guesse (1:45.28) and Mohamed Ali Gouaned (1:45.35). No Canadians will compete over 4 laps indoors with Arop selecting to take a seat out until the out of doors season after his record-setting efficiency on the New Stability Indoor Grand Prix. 

Heats: Friday March 1–7:22 a.m. ET

Semi-Finals: Saturday, March 2–7:30 a.m. ET

Remaining: Sunday, March 3–4:10 p.m. ET 

Males’s 1,500m

Each Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and Kieran Lumb will line up for the boys’s 1,500m. Philibert-Thiboutot has improved his indoor PB to three:36.53 this yr, whereas Lumb–holder of the Canadian indoor 3,000m report–ran 3:37.75 on the NB Indoor Grand Prix at first of the month. That’s lower than a second shy of his indoor PB. 

Main the entries are former World Indoor File holder Samuel Tefera of Ethiopia (who has run 3:34.61 this yr), Hobbs Kessler (who beat Jake Wightman on the NB Indoor Grand Prix with 3:33.66), and Portugal’s Isaac Nader (3:34.23). 

Narve Gilje Nordås of Norway, who received bronze eventually yr’s World Championships in Budapest, is probably going to enhance on his just one,500m of the yr (3:37.45). He raced a 3,000m in Madrid final week and was not removed from Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s nationwide report. 

The hosts are represented by Adam Fogg, who ran 3:49 on the Millrose Video games Wanamaker Mile, and World Street Operating Championship silver medallist within the highway mile, Callum Elson.

Heats: Friday, March 1–3:10 p.m. ET

Remaining: Sunday, March 3–4:30 p.m. ET

Males’s 3,000m

Very similar to the ladies’s race of the identical distance, there might be no Canadian illustration, however the race presents an thrilling prospect. The world 1,500m champion, Josh Kerr, who set the world indoor finest for 2 miles on the 2024 Millrose Video games in mid-February, might be within the subject. His 7:30.14 3,000m cut up in New York was a British nationwide report. 

Like Kerr, American Yared Nuguse is stepping up from his standard distance (1,500m); he has run 7:55.76 this yr, however he has a PB of seven:28.24. World indoor report holder Lamecha Girma is a notable absence. As a substitute, Ethiopia might be represented by Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega (7:25.82 PB set this yr), Getnet Wale (7:24.98 PB, 7:26.73 this yr) and Telahun Haile Bekele (7:37.96 PB).

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is absent from the 2024 World Indoor Championships as he’s recovering from an Achilles harm.

Remaining: Saturday, March 2–3:40 p.m. ET

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