Glasgow hosted the World Indoor Athletics Championships with 651 athletes (331 women and 320 men) from 133 countries, including 18 champions from the last edition in Belgrade 2022.
To all those athletes There are great names in athletics world called stars at the Emirates Arena in the Scottish city.
1
Noah Lyles (USA)
The American, three-time outdoor world champion in Budapest in the 100, 200 and 4×100, will seek the indoor world crown for the first time before her big goal of the year, the Paris Olympic Games.
He arrived in Scotland as the world leader of the year with 6.43 seconds and the duel with his compatriot Chris Coleman, with 6.44, promises to be one of the great moments of the World Cups
2
Mariano Garcia (ESP)
The Spanish middle distance runner, after a blank year, returned with renewed spirit after becoming the national champion of 800 meters, a distance where the competition is fierce, to the point that the current continental indoor champion, Adrián Ben, has become abandoned.
At 26 years old, he is one of the standards of current Spanish athletics. On his record he has a gold medal at the 2022 Belgrade Indoor World Championships which he will try to defend in Glasgow
3
Selemon Barega (ETH)
The Olympic 10,000 meters champion aims to repeat the world indoor gold from two years ago in Belgrade and be on the podium for the third time, since in Birmingham, in 2018, he won silver.
At 24, the Ethiopian middle distance runner, who will run the 3,000, is favorite for gold after winning the Torun (Poland) and Lievin (France) rallies and, in 7:25.82, was just two seconds off her world record.compatriot Lamecha Girma, who is not competing in Glasgow.
4
Grant Holloway (USA)
The three-time 110 hurdles world champion and Olympic runner-up broke his own world record in the 60 hurdles on January 17 when the clock stopped at 7.27 at the national indoor championships held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 1,511 meters. .
The American seeks to repeat the world gold in Belgrade 2022 and to do so he arrives with the best mark of the year for a distance that his compatriot Trey Cunningham or the Spaniard Asier Martínez will try to match him on the podium.
5
Armand Duplantis (SUE)
The pole vaulter improves himself every year and becomes a real medal collector. Indoors she is world champion in 2022 and European champion in 2021 and is the top favorite for gold in Glasgow.
The world record, in his possession, is 6.23 meters, a mark he hopes to surpass to continue expanding his legend.
6
Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
The Greek long jumper can boast that he has been a three-time European indoor champion and a one-time world champion, so his name on the list of participants in Glasgow makes him the top favorite for gold.
He arrives in the Scottish city with an 8.26 mark on the year, second behind Italian Mattia Furlano with 8.34
7
Hugues Fabrice Zango (BUR)
The Burkinabe, triple jump world champion, is the main favorite for gold in Glasgow after arriving at the top of the World Athletics rankings with a season’s best mark of 17.21, three centimeters ahead of Algerian Yasser Mohammed Triki
8
Lázaro Martínez (CUB)
The Cuban was declared the world indoor triple jump champion at Belgrade 2022 and last year, outdoors, he won silver at the World Championships in Budapest.
With a season record of 16.87, his record is far behind Zango, although the duel with the Burkinabe for the podium will be one of the great attractions in Glasgow
9
Ryan Crouser (USA)
The American shot putter arrived in Glasgow with little training although in his only event of the year, the American championship in Albuquerque, he reached 22.80 meters to become the world leader.
The double Olympic and world outdoor champion will look for his first indoor gold in the Scottish city because in Belgrade 2022 he was surprised by Brazilian Darlan Romani, who he will see again in this championship.
10
Femke Bol (NED)
The Dutch sprinter will compete in the 400 meters as the main favorite for gold as out of the twenty-five athletes registered for the distance he is the only one beaten by 49.24 in fifty seconds.
At 24 years old, he boasts six times under fifty seconds and all in the last two winters, which makes him all the more terrifying.
Source: La Verdad
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