A look at gains from a memorable indoor athletics season

London, March 16 : The World Athletics Indoor Tour organised 25 competitions in 11 different countries across Europe and North America. In all, 1,353 athletes from 84 countries competed in the wider series of Gold, Silver and Bronze level meetings with all six continental areas represented, said to World Athletics, the global governing body.
At the end of the five Gold-level meetings 11 series winners — representing seven countries and three continental areas — were confirmed, each earning wildcard entries to the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade22.
They are: Women’s 60m – Javianne Oliver (USA) Women’s 800m – Habitam Alemu (Ethiopia) Women’s 3000m – Lemlem Hailu (Ethiopia) Women’s pole vault – Iryna Zhuk (Belarus) Women’s triple jump – Liadagmis Povea (Cuba) Women’s shot put – Auriol Dongmo (Portugal) Men’s 400m – Pavel Maslak (Czech Republic) Men’s 1500m – Selemon Barega (Ethiopia) Men’s 60m hurdles – Grant Holloway (USA) Men’s high jump – Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy) Men’s long jump – Juan Miguel Echevarria (Cuba) Four senior world indoor records were broken this year, three of them coming in at World Athletics Indoor Tour meetings: Women’s 1500m – 3:53.09 Gudaf Tsegay (Ethiopia) Lievin Men’s 60m hurdles – 7.29 Grant Holloway (USA) Madrid Men’s triple jump – 18.07m Hugues Fabrice Zango (Burkina Faso) Aubiere Men shot put – 22.82m Ryan Crouser (USA) Fayetteville World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold series records were broken in 10 disciplines this year: