Reigning world indoor champion Blanka Vlasic of Croatia competes in the high jump qualification in Doha (© Getty Images)
Blanka Vlasic has returned from injury and leapt 2.00m in Prague last week, so the two-time former world indoor and outdoor champion will be looking to make amends for missing both the 2012 Olympic Games and the World Championships last summer.
Russia’s Maria Kuchina tops the 2014 world list with 2.01m from Stockholm in early February and one of the best Polish hopes for a medal in Sopot lies with Kamila Stepaniuk-Licwinko, who has improved her indoor best by eight centimetres this season to a national record 2.00m.
Also in the hunt for medals should be Spain’s 34-year-old European champion, indoors and outdoors, Ruth Beitia, who this winter became the oldest woman ever to clear two metres indoors.
This will be Beitia's eighth appearance at the World Indoor Championships; a record bettered only by legendary 800m runner Maria Mutola.
Nicola Bamford for the IAAF
