The set-up and atmosphere may have felt slightly unusual at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, but the action and excitement didn’t suffer at the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2021 on Friday (29).

Dozens of the world’s best athletes will be in action at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Friday (29) for the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2021.

Almost three years since her last 60m race, world 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith will line up for the short sprint at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2021, on 29 January.

Ronnie Baker hasn’t had the best of luck in recent years.

Fittingly, almost exactly six days and 17 hours after setting a world pole vault record of 6.17m at the last World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting, Armand Duplantis will be back on the runway at the Muller Grand Prix Glasgow on Saturday (15).

World Indoor Championships medallists Su Bingtian and Daphne Schippers will be among the headliners in their respective 60m races at the International PSD Bank Meeting Dusseldorf, the third stop of the World Athletics Indoor Tour, on 4 February.

World long jump champion Malaika Mihambo will be one of the top names at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on 31 January, but the German star won’t be contesting her specialist event at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting.

World indoor silver medallist Su Bingtian will take on a trio of Britain’s leading sprinters at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix Birmingham when he defends his 60m title at the now sold-out IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting on 16 February.

Two-time world 200m champion Dafne Schippers will race in Spain for the first time in her career when she lines up for the 60m at the Madrid Indoor Meeting – part of the IAAF World Indoor Tour – on 8 February.

The Swiss sprint ace and recently minted world Indoor 60m bronze medallist Mujinga Kambundji recalls the significance of the 2014 European Championships in Zurich for providing a series of highs and one big career low.

The following world record has been ratified...

It was another record-breaking 60m blast from Christian Coleman, and a first global gold medal for the burgeoning 21-year-old US sprint talent from the USA.