WORLD RECORDS are likely to fall at Saturday’s World Indoor Tour Final in Birmingham.
Some of the world’s best athletes set out their expectations for them to fall at the freshly laid track at the Utilita Arena – or at least there to be no stone unturned if they don’t.
The women’s 60m sprint always lights up the arena in Birmingham and this time will be no different with British stars Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita set to face off against Jamaican world champion Shericka Jackson.
Asher-Smith won the World Indoor Tour meeting in Karlsruhe in January and Neita is the newly-crowned UK champion while Jackson is the reigning 200m world champion outdoors and out to perfect her start amid fierce competition in Birmingham.
“I think I have so much in store. It has only been two years since I switched [from the 400m], so I just want to see how fast I can go,” said Jackson.
“I have got so much faster than I was before. I was actually not fast; I was so strong so therefore I wasn’t able to produce those times. Now that I am faster, I can see how fast I can go.
“I want to put my first 30m together, once I get my first 30m together, I will definitely run fast. I want to run at least 7-something so therefore I want to put a proper 30m together.
“My last 30m is OK but my first 30m is very bad. In Boston [World Indoor Tour this month] I had a really bad race, especially over the first 30m, so once I put that together anything is possible.”
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