Hunter Bell bids to add to GB World Indoor medal tally
Georgia Hunter Bell will aim to win her first international title
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World Athletics Indoor Championships
Venue: Nanjing, China Date: Friday 21 - 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 and Amber Anning at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.
Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell 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.
Great Britain have two golds in two days in Nanjing, after Azu stormed to 60m gold on Friday and Anning the first British woman to win the world indoor 400m title one day later.
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.
Hunter Bell fails to medal as GB's Walcott-Nolan claims 1500m bronze
Duplantis and Ingebrigtsen aim to light up Nanjing
Swedish star Duplantis won his third consecutive world indoor title on Saturday.
Ingebrigtsen, who secured a record-equalling seventh European indoor gold with a third consecutive 1500m and 3,000m double earlier this month, will look to win his first 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 - but will be strong favourite to add to his 3,000m gold in Nanjing on Sunday.
Elsewhere, women's high jump Olympic champion and world record holder Mahuchikh will look to regain the world title she won in 2022.
- Published18 March
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
Friday, 21 March
Saturday, 22 March
Sunday, 23 March