2023 Indoors

[Ladyloz]

I wasn't even aware that there was an Asian Indoor Championships

[LuckySpikes]

Japan are sending a pretty good team of 30 athletes to the Asian Indoor Championships, taking place in Astana, Kazakhstan from 10 to 12 February.

It's headlined by Yuki Hashioka (M LJ) and Ririka Hironaka (W 3000).

Hironaka's teammate in the 3000 is Yuma Yamamoto, a very good collegian with 8:52 & 15:16 outdoor bests. The Women's 1500 pair, Ran Urabe & Yume Goto, are Japan's two best after Nozomi Tanaka.

The men's 1500 team, Iizawa Kazuto & Nanami Arai, are a pair of 3:36 athletes (# 2 & # 4 Japanese A-T) and the 3000 pair are strong too - Yuta Bando is a 13:18 outdoor athlete and Keita Satoh ran 3:37 and 13:23 outdoors last year, aged 18 (both Japanese U20 records).

Full team (translated to English) at https://www.dropbox.com/s/tds7g15mnj...ps.pdf?dl=0

[Runner88]

Says that Muir will wrap up her 2023 indoor campaign in Brum, so sounds like no Euro Indoors for her this time. Nothing to prove there after doing a double-double but would have still been great to see her add more medals to her trophy cabinet. Especially indoors I think she is formidable and her running style and tactics seem to suit indoors so well.

[LuckySpikes]

Our Laura vs Ciara Mageean at the NB Indoor Grand Prix (Boston) on 4th Feb - https://www.worldathletics.org/compe...am-60m-hurdles

[jjimbojames]

Interesting. Moraa’s tactics will be much harder to carry out indoors

[LuckySpikes]

Keely, Moraa & Welteji are due to race each other at the Copernicus Cup meeting in Torun on 8th Feb.

[LuckySpikes]

The World Indoor Tour has been expanded from 33 meetings in 2022 to 54 meetings in 2023 - 7 Gold, 17 Silver, 17 Bronze and 13 Challenger - including meetings for the first time in Kazakhstan, Finland, Greece & Croatia. Again, great work by World Athletics to get more meetings on the schedule thereby increasing their importance. The calendar (with results links in due course) is at https://www.worldathletics.org/compe...ason=2022%2F23

The scoring disciplines at the Gold meetings are detailed at https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competiti...d1013d9778.pdf

Some dates ...

21 Jan Start of World Indoor Tour in USA & CZE
27 Jan Init Indoor Meeting (Karlsruhe) - Gold meeting
28 Jan Manchester World Indoor Tour - downgraded from Silver to Bronze
4 Feb NB Indoor Grand Prix (Boston) - Gold meeting
8 Feb Copernicus Cup (Toruń) - Gold meeting
11 Feb Millrose Games (New York) - Gold meeting
15 Feb Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais (Liévin) - Gold meeting
18 - 19 Feb British Indoor Championships (Birmingham)
22 Feb World Indoor Tour Madrid - Gold meeting
25 Feb Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final - Gold meeting
2 - 5 Mar European Indoor Championships (Istanbul)
10 - 11 Mar NCAA D1 Indoor Championships (Albuquerque)

Post any international results/discussion here (a separate thread already exists for UK results).