The vertical jumps will be in full focus at the Internationales Springer-Meeting Cottbus before the attention turns to the Meeting Elite Indoor Miramas on Friday evening.
Internationales Springer-Meeting Cottbus (World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting)
- When: 31 January
- Live streaming begins on the European Athletics YouTube channel at 6.00pm CET
- Entry-lists
Reigning world and European high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh from Ukraine will make her season’s debut in Cottbus where she will be looking for her third victory. Mahuchikh cleared 1.98m in last year’s meeting.
The line-up also features Lithuania’s 2017 European indoor champion Airine Palsyte, who won in Cottbus in 2016 and 2017 and leading German jumpers Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch, Imke Onnen and Blessing Enatoah.
The men’s pole vault is expected to be a head-to-head between long-time friends and rivals Piotr Lisek from Poland and 2017 and 2019 world champion Sam Kendricks from the United States.
Guests of honours in Cottbus include Olympic champions Ulrike Meyfarth and Heike Drechsler and German pole vault great Björn Otto.
Meeting Elite Indoor Miramas Metropole (World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting)
- When: 2 February
- Live streaming begins on the European Athletics Facebook page at 7.35pm CET
- Entry list and results
Unsurprisingly for a French meeting, the men’s 60m hurdles will be one of the marquee events with Dimitri Bascou and Wilhem Belocian set to renew their domestic rivalry.
Emerging French talents Robin Emig and Baptiste Thierry face Portuguese record-holder Pedro Buaro and China’s Jie Yao in the pole vault and Louise Maraval - who ran a memorable anchor leg for France to win gold in the 4x400m at the European Athletics U23 Championships - contests the individual 400m.
International stars in action include Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega from Ethiopia who drops down to the 1500m and African record-holder Ferdinand Omanyala against Cote d'Ivoire's Arthur Cisse in the 60m.
What happened last weekend?
Molly Caudery vaulted to a world lead and lifetime best of 4.83m on her season's debut at the Meeting de l'Eure in Val-de-Reuil on Sunday (28) evening.
It was also a good night for Spanish athletics with European 110m hurdles champion Asier Martinez winning the 60m hurdles in an early season world leading time of 7.49 and world 5000m silver medallist Mohamed Katir winning the mile in a world leading 3:51.91.
- Full replay here
There was more Spanish success at the X-Athletics Combined Events meeting in Aubière with Maria Vicente winning the pentathlon with a world lead and Spanish record of 4728 points. This was Vicente's first combined events competition since 2022 having opted to focus on the horizontal jumps last season due to injury.
Switzerland's Simon Ehammer won his third heptathlon title albeit by a slender winning margin of 12 points from France's Makenson Gletty who made up significant ground on Ehammer in the concluding 1000m. Ehammer won with 6242 points ahead of Gletty who was rewarded with a big lifetime best of 6230 points.
- Full replay here