At the conclusion of the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final 2023, the athlete with the most points across all scoring disciplines will be crowned the champion.
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The World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold series concludes in Birmingham, with athletes competing for bonus prize money and wild card admissions to the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24, depending on selection by the athletes’ national federation. The World Indoor Tour’s scoring events alternate every year, and in Birmingham, those on display are the women’s 60-meter dash, 800-meter run, 3000m leap, and pole vault, as well as the men’s 400-meter dash, 1500-meter run, 60-meter hurdle run, high jump, and long jump. The season’s top three finishes for each athlete will be used to determine their final point total. At the conclusion of the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final, the athlete with the most points across all scoring disciplines will be crowned the champion.
The women’s 60m, which will have two heats before a final, features a lot of talent. Dina Asher-Smith, the 2019 global 200m gold medalists, and compatriot Daryll Neita lead the entrants in terms of time, having set a national record of 7.04 and a time that is only 0.01 off that so far this season. Shericka Jackson of Jamaica, who won the world 200m title in Oregon last year, also boasts an indoor 60m personal best of 7.04 recorded in Belgrade last year, and she will put her speed to the test once more at the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final.
With a victory in the championship, Keely Hodgkinson is one of the competitors who might overtake the leaders in the World Athletics rankings. In Manchester at the end of last month, Britain’s Olympic and global 800m silver medalist opened her season with a world indoor 600m best time of 1:23.41. With subsequent runs of 1:57.87 in Torun and a world-leading 1:57.71 in Lievin, she ultimately won both World Indoor Tour Gold 800m races. At this race last year, the 20-year-old set a national record of 1:57.20, which places her sixth on the world indoors all-time list. As she prepares to defend her European indoor crown in Istanbul next month, she will be looking for another good performance at the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final.
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Gudaf Tsegay, an Ethiopian who won the world 5000-meter title, aimed to break the world indoor mile record in Torun and also planned to run quicker there. The world indoor 1500m champion, who established the record for the distance at 3:53.09 in Lievin in 2021, came up just short but moved up to No. 2 on the list of all-time best times with her 4:16.16 run. She is now back on the track and prepared to break Genzebe Dibaba’s 8:16.60 world indoor 3000m record, which has stood since 2014. Tsegay’s performance of 8:22.65 from Madrid in 2021 places her second overall in the globe for that discipline in the indoor record books.
In December, it was revealed that Laura Muir would compete in the women’s 1000-meter race in an effort to break the world indoor record. Since then, the Tokyo Olympics 1500-meter silver medalist has also won the 3000-meter race in Boston in 8:40.34 and the mile in New York in 4:20.15. At the 2017 Birmingham indoor race, the 29-year-old ran the second-fastest indoor 1000m time in history, clocking 2:31.93. The fastest time ever was set by Maria Mutola in 1999, with a time of 2:30.94. Sofia Ennaoui of Poland, Claudia Bobocea of Romania, and Maureen Koster of the Netherlands are her rivals at the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final.
Grant Holloway, a superstar in the hurdles, hasn’t lost a sprint hurdles match indoors since he was 16 years old in 2014. As he competes against fellow American Daniel Roberts in Birmingham at the Birmingham World Indoor Tour Final, who came within 0.01 of breaking Holloway’s indoor world record this season with a 7.39 personal best, the world record holder will want to maintain his winning streak. The two-time world champion in the 110-meter hurdles, Holloway, first set the record in 2021 at the World Indoor Tour Gold event in Madrid. Last year, in the semifinals of the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, he matched it and went on to win the competition.
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