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Spain have named a strong team for the DNA indoor international &ndash; a six-sided international featuring England v Scotland v Wales v Ireland v Spain v Turkey &ndash; in Glasgow on Saturday 5 February and their squad is replete with high quality performers, not least hurdler Asier Martinez.
Martinez, still only 21, had a 2021 to remember. Firstly, he took the European U23 110m hurdles title and then he finished sixth over the barriers at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he ran a Spanish U23 record of 13.22.
The man from the northern Spanish region of Navarra has also started 2022 in sparkling fashion by running 7.65 for the 60m hurdles indoors earlier this month and on the fast track in Glasgow he will be looking to improve on his best of 7.60, set when finishing fourth at the European Athletics Indoor Championships last March.
The Spaniards will also be looking for good points from the newly minted Spanish 60m record holder Maria Perez, who recently reduced the national standard in that event to 7.21.
They will be hard to beat as well in the two relays prior to the concluding event The Hunt and, although several teams have yet to be announced, it would be no surprise if Spain are in pole position for the final event and are the team to chase as the afternoon&rsquo;s events reach a climax in the Emirates Arena.
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Spain&rsquo;s mixed 4x400m relay quartet consists of a mixed 4x400 relay made up of 2019 European U20 400m silver medallist Bernat Erta, I&ntilde;aki Ca&ntilde;al, 2021 European U23 400m hurdles silver medallist Sara Gallego and team captian Aauri Bokesa.
Like Martinez, Erta and Bokesa were also part of Spain&rsquo;s Olympic team last summer.
The quartet contesting The Hunt is equally formidable and will be led off by Lorena Mart&iacute;n, who contributed a stunning 800m at the recent Spanish domestic DNA championships which was instrumental in her club Playas de Castellon taking the title. Martin will hand over to 2019 European indoor 800m champion &Aacute;lvaro de Arriba, who will run over 600m, with Laura Bueno (400m) and Sergio Juarez (200m) completing The Hunt team for Spain.
With few weak events on paper for the Spaniards, the Iberian visitors will start as one of the favourites for the honours at the DNA indoor international, which is also a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze Meeting.
The full Spanish team can be seen <a href="https://www.rfea.es/web/noticias/desarrollo.asp?codigo=14934#.YfB0gOrP1PZ">here</a>.
More details about the DNA indoor international can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://dna.run/dna-indoor-2022-glasgow/">here</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="dna.run">dna.run</a>.

European U23 champion Martinez heads Spain team for DNA indoor international

Reigning Olympic and European long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou from Greece is the latest star name to be confirmed for the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava on 3 February, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting.
Tentoglou joins a cast which already includes fellow European indoor champion Ajla Del Ponte in the 60m, former European champion Bruno Hortelano from Spain in the 200m and Olympic finalist Liemarvin Bonevacia from the Netherlands in the 400m.
The Greek will face a particularly strong field which includes Thobias Montler from Sweden, the silver medallist behind Tentoglou at the 2019 and 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Czech record-holder and last year&rsquo;s winner Radek Juska also competes while non-European opposition is presented by Marquis Dendy from the United States but the Greek will start as the athlete to beat.
"This would be my third competition in the Ostrava Hall. I always win here so why not continue with this series? After the Olympic season another one is here and I want to continue to compete at the highest level. The Ostrava meeting is the starting point and a very important first competition on my way to the World Indoor Championships. Maybe it&rsquo;s also time to improve the meeting record of 8.04m?" said Tentoglou.
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Fellow European indoor champion Tomas Stanek from Czech Republic is also seeking his third victory in the shot put but the organisers have assembled a strong line-up to oppose the home favourite. Stanek takes on former European indoor champion Konrad Bukowiecki from Poland - himself a two-time winner at the Czech Indoor Gala and the meeting record-holder with 21.88m - and Italy&rsquo;s Leonardo Fabbri.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I am really looking forward to Ostrava every year and this year it is no different. I hope the situation will allow spectators to come to Ostrava; they are great and have always helped me to perform better. My preparation was successful and I will do my best to please the home fans with long attempts," said Stanek.
In the women&rsquo;s pole vault, European indoor silver medallist Tina Sutej from Slovenia will also seek her third successive victory in Ostrava. A strong field will stand in her way including European indoor bronze medallist Iryna Zhuk from Belarus, former world champion Yarisley Silva from Cuba and reigning European U23 champion Amalie Svabikova from Czech Republic.
The main programme of the Czech Indoor Gala will be broadcasted live from 5-7.00pm local time on the ČT Sport channel. Before that, the national programme will be streamed live from 2.00pm on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/czatletika" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Czech Athletics Facebook page</a>.

Olympic champion Tentoglou to open season at the Czech Indoor Gala

European indoor champion Auriol Dongmo opened her season in excellent form at the Portuguese Club Championships in Pombal on Saturday (22).
Dongmo, 31, became the first European thrower to surpass the 19 metre-line this season. Only one of her four throws was valid but that mark was measured at a world leading distance of 19.29m.&nbsp;
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This was the third longest throw of her career indoors, bettered only by her national indoor record of 19.65m from Karlsruhe last year and her gold medal-winning throw at the Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships which landed at 19.34m.
Corinna Schwab was also in excellent early season form at the refurbished indoor facility at the Chemnitz International Meeting on Saturday.&nbsp;
The German set herself a demanding schedule but she came through it brilliantly. She equalled the German indoor 300m best with 36.49 before setting a world lead of 51.95 in the 400m.
Her time in the 300m matched the 34-year-old German indoor best held by former West German Helga Arendt and her 400m time was the fastest indoors by a German since Grit Breuer in 2002.
Kevin Kranz was also in good form with a 6.59 clocking in the 60m heats although he did not take part in the final.
At the Norwegian Indoor Combined Events Championships in Baerum (22-23), European U20 decathlon silver medallist Sander Skotheim achieved his first national senior record at the age of 19.
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Skotheim won the heptathlon title with a score of 5965 points which not only eclipsed Martin Roe&rsquo;s national record by 14 points but was also a world leading total at this early juncture of the season.
European U20 400m hurdles champion Andreea Rooth won the pentathlon title with 4096 points.
Lai powers to 6.56 60m clocking in Ancona
There were fast times en masse in the 60m in Ancona on Sunday (23) with Luca Lai winning the final in a European leading time of 6.56 ahead of Chituru Ali in 6.61. Giovanni Galbieri also impressed with a 6.60 clocking in the heat before pulling up injured in the final.
The meeting also witnessed the return of Larissa Iapichino who missed the majority of the summer season due to injury after a breakthrough indoor campaign which was highlighted by a world indoor U20 record of 6.91m.
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Iapichino wasn&rsquo;t quite reaching these distances in her first competition in seven months but the 2019 European U20 champion was more than satisfied with her winning mark of 6.59m.
"Getting back to competition was an immense joy which I had almost forgotten. And this was the right opportunity. I liked the feeling; now I know where I can improve in a season that will go on gradually with bigger competitions ahead," she told FIDAL.&nbsp;
In Vaxjo, Sweden on Saturday, 2019 European U20 400m hurdles champion Carl Bengstrom blasted to a European leading 400m time and indoor lifetime best of of 45.91 on his season's debut.&nbsp;
European indoor champion Tomas Stanek also opened his season in good form with a mark of 21.18m in Jablonec on Saturday while European indoor pole vault silver medallist Tina Sutej from Slovenia cleared 4.60m on her season's debut in Novo Mesto on Sunday.&nbsp;
Multiple Luxembourgish national indoor records fell in Kirchberg on Saturday. Patrizia Van der Waken clocked 7.28 in the women's 60m heats and final and Francois Graillet improved the 60m hurdles record to 7.80 in the heat and 7.75 in the final.
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World leading marks tumble on a busy weekend across Europe

Former world and European triple jump champion Olha Saladukha has formally retired from athletics at the age of 38.
But the Ukrainian is still keeping herself involved in athletics. Saladukha said goodbye and passed the baton to the next generation at the &lsquo;White Panther Cup&rsquo; in Kyiv on Saturday (22), a competition which she helped to organise.&nbsp;
The competition for young athletes was also attended by well-known names in Ukrainian athletics including 2008 European heptathlon champion Nataliya Dobrynska and 2017 world high jump silver medallist Yuliya Levchenko.
Saladukha won three successive European titles in the triple jump between 2010 and 2014 and the Ukrainian achieved her lifetime best of 14.99m to secure gold for the second time in 2012 in Helsinki, five weeks before she stood on the podium at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with bronze.
But Saladukha does have a global title to accompany her trio of European gold medals. Saladukha struck gold at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu before putting up a staunch defence of her title two years later when she claimed bronze in Moscow behind Colombia&rsquo;s Caterine Ibarguen who would succeed Saladukha as the event&rsquo;s dominant figure.
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Saladukha&rsquo;s career at the highest level spanned more than a decade. She recorded fifth-place finishes at the World Athletics Championships some 12 years apart in 2007 and 2019 before bowing out on the global stage at the postponed Tokyo Olympics, her fourth successive Olympic appearance.
After drawing a line on her lucrative and illustrious international career, Saladukha has since turned her focus to organising the &lsquo;White Panther Cup,&rsquo; a jumps-only event for young athletes who were born between 2007 and 2010. Saladukha hopes it will become a permanent fixture on the Ukrainian athletics calendar.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I wanted to pass the baton. I wanted to do it beautifully, solemnly and I want to motivate children to go in for sports, to show that it really opens doors. And so this idea was born. Before the Olympics, journalists called me a white panther. And so the name was born. I hope that this tournament will be international, that it will become a tradition,&rdquo; said Saladukha.
And while Saladukha has officially hung up her spikes, there could be family representation in the years to come. One of the winners at the White Panther Cup was her daughter Diana who won the U14 high jump with 1.45m.

Three-time European champion Saladukha announces retirement

The World Athletics Indoor Tour kicked off on Saturday (22) with the BoXX United Manchester World Indoor Tour, one of 14 Silver meetings to be held in Europe this winter, which was highlighted by excellent performances in the shot put and middle distances.
In the women&rsquo;s shot put, Sophie McKinna took one of her biggest career wins to date. The world and European finalist launched the shot put out to 18.53m to take some notable scalps including Chase Ealey from the United States (18.49m) and European indoor silver medallist Fanny Roos from Sweden (18.48m).
&ldquo;I was pleased to take the win but it was a little frustrating as I&rsquo;m in really good shape and I missed what would have been &lsquo;the big throw&rsquo; at the end. I&rsquo;m excited for the next one though. This gives me a little fire in my belly,&rdquo; McKinna told AW after the competition.
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McKinna&rsquo;s teammate Scott Lincoln made it a British double in the shot put. Now third on the British all-time list, the rapidly improving Brit opened his year with an indoor lifetime best of 20.73m to finish almost half-a-metre ahead of Romania's Andrei Toader (20.29m) and Norway's Marcus Thomsen (20.25m).
On the track, Romania&rsquo;s Claudia Bobocea produced arguably the performance of the meeting by powering to a solo victory in the 1500m in 4:06.24, a world leading performance at this early juncture of the season. Brit Piers Copeland left a strong field in his wake on the last lap of the men&rsquo;s 1500m, winning in 3:42.14.
Ciara Mageean outsprinted Albanian steeplechaser Luiza Gega for victory in the women&rsquo;s 3000m - 8:47.23 to 8:47.53 - while Qatar&rsquo;s Mohamed Al-Garni won a competitive men&rsquo;s 3000m in 7:52.68, defeating a field which included two of Europe&rsquo;s most exciting young prospects.
Fresh from breaking the Welsh U20 record, Osian Perrin - who turned 19 one day before the race - gifted himself a belated birthday present by finishing fourth in a British U20 record of 7:54.41. Just behind him was 18-year-old Dane Joel Ibler Lilleso, who won bronze in the U20 race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships, who was fifth in 7:54.44.
Perrin also moves to third on the European all-time U20 list which is headed by Jakob Ingebrigtsen with 7:51.20 from the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
Hunt lowers 60m lifetime best to 7.21
After two seasons fraught with difficulties, 2019 European U20 200m champion Amy Hunt continued her return to the top level with victory in the 60m in a lifetime best of 7.21, her third lifetime best this season.
Hunt enjoyed a breakout 2019 campaign which was highlighted by two European U20 titles and a world U18 200m best of 22.42 but her 2020 and 2021 seasons were blighted by hamstring injuries and the difficulties of balancing her burgeoning athletics career with her studies at Cambridge University.
&ldquo;I did too much academic work and probably didn&rsquo;t listen to my body and got into bad habits such as staying up too late and so we took things back to the drawing board. There were a lot of things to sort out and with the help of a great team I&rsquo;ve managed to do that,&rdquo; Hunt told AW.
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Andrew Robertson won the men&rsquo;s 60m in 6.60 while reigning European U20 400m champion Ed Faulds impressed with a 46.84 opener in the men&rsquo;s 400m. Former European U20 champion and reigning European U23 champion Isabelle Boffey won the 800m in 2:03.11.
Other highlights included Denmark&rsquo;s Mette Graversgaard winning the 60m hurdles in 8.02 and Swiss record-holder Loic Gasch clearing 2.24m in the high jump.
Full results can be found <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7172608">here</a>.
And extended highlights from the meeting can be watched below.
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McKinna’s shot put victory highlights Manchester World Indoor Tour

Reigning European U23 100m champion Jeremiah Azu heads the Wales team contesting the inaugural DNA indoor international in Glasgow, Scotland on 5 February.
The event &ndash; a six-sided international featuring England v Scotland v Wales v Ireland v Spain v Turkey - follows on from the success of Dynamic New Athletics (DNA) introduction at the 2019 European Games.
Azu finished his 2021 season in fine fashion by flying to a 100m personal best of 10.16 in Berlin last September and will want to continue where he left off with his first outing of the year at the BoXX United Manchester World Indoor Tour meeting on Saturday, <a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/news/extensive-world-athletics-indoor-tour-to-kick-off-in-manchester-on-saturday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of 14 World Indoor Tour Silver meetings in Europe</a> this winter, all of which are administered by European Athletics.
The 20-year-old sprint talent will be looking to improve on his 60m personal best of 6.65, which dates from 2019, in Manchester before reducing it further in Glasgow &ndash; the venue for the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships &ndash; on <a href="https://www.mondoworldwide.com/emea/en/sport/track-and-field/hydraulic-track/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the famously quick Emirates Arena Track installed by European Athletics Partner Mondo</a>, where he will be among the famourites for maximum points in his event.
Alongside Azu, Wales have included British international 400m runner Owen Smith in their team.
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‼️ DNA TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT ‼️ We are excited to announce we're sending 1️⃣8️⃣ athletes to Glasgow to compete against England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain &amp; Turkey as they attempt to become crowned champions in the newly created <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DNA</a> event! View the team ➡️ <a href="https://t.co/jQ8nRuHqxV">https://t.co/jQ8nRuHqxV</a> <a href="https://t.co/fhpAQkYCyx">pic.twitter.com/fhpAQkYCyx</a>
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Smith knows the Emirates Arena well having run over two laps at the European Athletics Indoor Championships two years ago and he was part of the British bronze medal-winning 4x400m quartet at the most recent edition of that competition in Torun last March.
Among Wales' women, lots of attention will be focussed on 60m sprinter Mica Moore who has been spitting her time between athletics and bobsleigh.
Moore, a former junior world champion in the latter sport, competed in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games but has been focussing on sprinting again in the last two months after missing out on a place in the British team going to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. &nbsp;
The full Welsh team can be seen <a href="https://www.welshathletics.org/en/blog/post/dna-team-selection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. Ireland announced their team for the DNA indoor international earlier this week and further announcements from the other four competing teams will be made in the coming week.
More details about the DNA indoor international can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://dna.run/dna-indoor-2022-glasgow/">here</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="dna.run">dna.run</a>.