Hypo-Meeting’s heptathlon field has been boosted by a handful of up-and-coming talents who will be looking to continue their rise to the top at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting in Gotzis, which gets under way on 31 May.Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be making her Hypo-Meeting debut in what will be her first full combined events competition of 2014. The European under-23 champion and world junior long jump champion has already shown great form this year, breaking the British high jump record with 1.96m indoors and taking world indoor long jump silver with an outright PB of 6.81m.Johnson-Thompson, who finished fifth at last year’s World Championships, will challenge for the victory in Gotzis as she prepares for the Commonwealth Games later in the summer.Her younger team-mate Morgan Lake is also a recent addition to the Hypo-Meeting field. The 17-year-old became the youngest ever winner of the IAAF Combined Events meeting in Florence earlier this month, setting a PB of 5896 in poor conditions. Since then, she has broken the British junior high jump record with 1.93m.Another talented junior, Cuba’s Yorgelis Rodriguez, is a third Hypo-Meeting debutante. The 19-year-old will be looking to defend her world junior title later this year, but before that in Gotzis she will try to improve on her area junior record of 6231 that she set earlier this year.In total, there will be 24 heptathletes in Gotzis with PBs in excess of 6000 points. Other recent additions include Brazil’s three-time South American champion Vanessa Spinola, Norwegian record-holder Ida Marcussen, world junior silver medallist Xenia Krizsan and World University Games bronze medallist Gyorgiy Zsivoczky-Farkas.There have been a few recent withdrawals from the decathlon field as world silver medallist Damian Warner, former Gotzis winner Hans van Alphen and European silver medallist Oleksiy Kasyanov have all been affected by either illness or injury.But the line-up has since been boosted by the likes of South American record-holder Carlos Chinin, current world leader Yordani Garcia, World University Games bronze medallist Brent Newdick, three-time Multistars runner-up Ashley Bryant and British indoor heptathlon record-holder John Lane.Organisers for the IAAF

Hypo-Meeting’s heptathlon field has been boosted by a handful of up-and-coming talents who will be looking to continue their rise to the top at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting in Gotzis, which gets under way on 31 May.

Heptathlon field in Gotzis strengthened by addition of young talents

Brazil will send 32 athletes to the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, led by reigning World Pole Vault champion Fabiana Murer.The 32-year-old cleared a season’s best of 4.73m to win the National Championships last month to move to fourth on the 2013 world lists, making her the highest-ranked Brazilian athlete in any event this year.Brazil will be well represented in the men’s event too, after Augusto Dutra de Oliveira and Thiago Da Silva have both broken the South American Pole Vault record this year. Di Oliveira improved the mark twice with 5.81m in May and 5.82m in June. But his younger team-mate Da Silva, the World junior champion, added 23cm to his lifetime best earlier this month to break Di Oliveira’s record with 5.83m.The same has happened in the women’s 100m, where Franciela Krasucki broke the South American record with 11.15 in April, only for fellow Brazilian Ana Claudia Silva to improve it in May, first with 11.13, then 11.05. Both athletes will double up in the sprints and will form part of a strong 4x100m squad.World indoor Long Jump champion Mauro Vinicius da Silva has been in PB form this year, jumping 8.31m at the National Championships to put him at fifth on this year’s world lists.Carlos Eduardo Chinin is another medal contender, having broken the South American record in the Decathlon this year with 8393.IAAFBRAZIL’S TEAM FOR MOSCOWMen 200m: Aldemir Gomes, Bruno Lins 400m: Anderson Henriques 800m: Kleberson Davide 400m Hurdles: Mahau Suguimati Pole Vault: Thiago da Silva, Augusto Dutra de Oliveira, Joao Gabriel Santos Souza Long Jump: Mauro Vinícius da Silva Triple Jump: Jefferson Sabino Discus: Ronald Juliao Decathlon: Carlos Eduardo Chinin Marathon: Paulo Roberto de Almeida Paula, Solonei Rocha da Silva 20km Race Walk: Caio Bonfim 50km Race Walk: Mario Jose dos Santos Junior 4x400m: Pedro Luiz Burmann, Wagner Francisco Cardoso, Jonathan Henrique da Silva, Hugo Balduíno de Sousa, Henriques.Women 100m: Franciela Krasucki, Ana Claudia Silva 200m: Krasucki, Silva 400m: Joelma Sousa Pole Vault: Karla Rosa da Silva, Fabiana Murer Triple Jump: Keila Costa Shot Put: Geisa Arcanjo Discus: Fernanda Borges Javelin: Jucilene Lima 4x400m: Evelyn Carolina dos Santos, Vanda Gomes, Krasucki, Rosangela Santos, Silva

World champion Murer leads Brazil’s team for Moscow

Brazil will send 32 athletes to the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, led by reigning World Pole Vault champion Fabiana Murer.