Kambundji and Charlton in Torun hurdles clash

World champion Ditaji Kambundji will go head-to-head with world indoor champion Devynne Charlton in the 60m hurdles at the ORLEN Copernicus Cup, the final World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the season, in Torun on 22 February.

Switzerland’s Kambundji clocked a national record of 12.24 to clinch 100m hurdles gold at the World Championships in Tokyo. That followed her runner-up finish to Charlton at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, where the Bahamian world record-holder retained her 60m hurdles title.

The pair will clash again at the Copernicus Cup, which will be held one month before the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26 takes place in the same venue – the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena Torun – on 20-22 March.

Charlton’s world record stands at 7.65, while Kambundji sits joint second on the world all-time list with her European record of 7.67.

At the Copernicus Cup they will be joined by home favourite Pia Skrzyszowska, the 2024 world indoor bronze medallist.

Also announced for the meeting are Italy’s two-time world indoor medallist Zaynab Dosso, Luxembourg’s world indoor bronze medallist Patrizia Van der Weken and Poland’s 2024 world indoor silver medallist Ewa Swoboda in the 60m.

In the shot put, USA’s two-time world champion Joe Kovacs will face his fellow global medallists Leonardo Fabbri of Italy and Rajindra Campbell of Jamaica.

Dosso and Van der Weken will also meet in the 60m at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava on 3 February, a World Indoor Tour Gold meeting that will feature Skrzyszowska and 2018 world indoor medallist Nadine Visser in the 60m hurdles.

Italy’s Mattia Furlani will return to defend his long jump title, renewing his rivalry with another former winner, Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece. Furlani won world titles both indoors and outdoors last year, while Tentoglou clinched the Olympic title the year before that, and they will meet again in Ostrava.