National titles and qualification for next month’s World Indoors in Toruń are at stake this weekend at the Utilita Arena.
The Novuna British Indoor Championships on Saturday and Sunday (February 14-15) will act as British trials for next month’s World Indoor Championships in Poland.
The match is being covered on the BBC website and iPlayer and you can keep up to date with results, news and interviews. AW: social media channels and website.
Amber Anning
The reigning world indoor 400m champion is in excellent form to defend her title in Poland next month, having set a world lead of 50.51 last weekend in Arkansas. Could Nicola Sanders’ UK indoor record of 50.02 from 2007 be in jeopardy? Outdoors, Anning finished fifth in the 2024 Olympic and 2025 World finals, improving on the previous British record of 49.29.
Dina Usher-Smith
After several coaching changes in recent years, the British 60m, 100m and 200m record holder is now with Michael Ford in Texas and has started his domestic season in good form with 60m wins in Boston and New York. This is his first performance in the national indoor championships in 11 years.
Amy Hunt
The 23-year-old burst into the limelight last summer when she won silver in the 200m at the World Championships behind Melissa Jefferson-Wooden of the United States. After a stint at Cambridge University where he struggled to juggle academics and athletics, he has had recent success in Italy with coach Marco Airale and comes into these championships with some decent recent results, including equaling his 7.09 PB in Belgrade on Wednesday.
Jeremiah Azu
The reigning world and European indoor 60m champion has been in good form again this winter and is looking to defend his world crown in Poland next month. After living and training in Italy, he has returned and settled in Cardiff with his old coach Helen James and is looking forward to a year that includes many championship opportunities.
Read more about Azu here.
Rommel Glav
The 26-year-old won bronze in the 100m at the 2024 European Championships and reached the semi-finals at last year’s world championships in Tokyo. But he has already started his indoor season with a 6.51 PB over 60m in Stockholm to beat Azu and Olympic 100m silver medalist Kishan Thomson of Jamaica.
Keely Hodgkinson
The Olympic 800m champion returns to the national indoor championships after injury sidelined her this time last year. She will face, among others, Issy Beaufei, who was the world leader in 1:57.43 before Switzerland’s Audrey Verreau beat her this week. Boffi will no doubt have a lot of support thanks to studying at the city’s university.
Scott Lincoln
The fire rod has been unbeaten at the UK Champs for the past decade and appears to be thriving in his new training in Melbourne. He warmed up this weekend with a 20.76m win at the Australian short track championships last weekend before heading back to Britain.
Last winter, he disappointed with a 12th place finish at the World Indoors in Nanjing and narrowly missed out on a medal at the European Indoors in Apeldoorn. But later that year she finished eighth in Tokyo, the best finish by a British shot putter, male or female, in the history of the world championships.
Georgia Hunter Bell
The 32-year-old has wintered well and opened his season with a world-leading 4:00.04 over the 1500m in Karlsruhe last weekend. The world 800m silver medalist enters the metric mile this weekend, where she will complete a hat-trick of national indoor titles at the distance.
Molly Cooder
The 2024 World Indoor Champion in Glasgow has not had a smooth run at the majors since then. He bombed during the Paris Olympics and then injured himself while warming up at the world titles last summer. But at his best, he is now Britain’s No.1 and is back in world-beating form after spending the winter training after suffering an injury last September.
Read more about Cowdery here.
Josh Kerr
Like Kaderi, Kerr is a world indoor champion from Glasgow, where he won 3000m gold. The 2023 world 1500m champion recently finished second over two miles to Cole Hawker at the Millrose Games and is targeting the World Indoor Championships in Poland over the longer distance instead of his specialist outdoor 1500m.
Hannah Nuttall
Natal, the British 5000m and indoor 3000m champion, finished fifth and sixth at the last two European indoor 3000m finals and was a fine eighth at last year’s 5000m World Championships in Tokyo. She faces tough opposition in the likes of rising star Innes Fitzgerald and Katie Snowden in Birmingham this weekend.
Ben Pattison
After winning world 800m bronze in 2023, Pattison ran 1:42.27 in Monaco in 2024 to move second in Great Britain’s all-time rankings behind Seb Coe. Last year was cut short by a stress fracture, but he still made the team for the Tokyo Worlds and is enjoying a rare indoor season this winter.
