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2021 Karlsruhe Indoor Tour Preview: Dina Asher-Smith, Beatrice Chepkoech, Juan Miguel Echevarria and Others To Compete
January 29, 2021
The first month of 2021 is almost done and the professional indoor track season is starting to heat up. The 2021 World Athletics Indoor Tour kicks off on Friday in Karlsruhe, Germany, followed by the second American Track League meet in Fayetteville on Sunday.
Karlsruhe has competitive fields in all 12 events, with several big names including world champions
Dina Asher-Smith and
Beatrice Chepkoech and long jump star
Juan Miguel Echevarria. From an LRC perspective, though, the ATL meet is even more intriguing, with some big-time US stars soon to be announced.
Friday, 29 January 2021
Britain’s world 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith equalled her British record of 7.08sec in winning the 60 metres at the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year in Karlsruhe on a night when France’s former world pole vault record holder Renaud Lavillenie looked back to his lofty best.
Despite not having competed indoors for three years, the 25-year-old Briton, who set her record in 2015, was never headed as she finished clear of France’s Orlann Ombissa-Dzangue, who clocked 7.16, and Switzerland’s Ajla Del Ponte, who equalled her personal best of 7.17.
Asher-Smith’s time in the Europa Halle replaced her own mark of 7.11, set in the heats, at the top of this year’s rankings and she will head on to the next World Indoor Tour meeting on Sunday (January 31) in Dusseldorf in buoyant mood.
Dina Asher-Smith equaled her 60m personal best of 7.08 seconds
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Consider this as notice served by Dina Asher-Smith to the world’s leading sprinters. Three years after last competing indoors and 15 months since an international race of any sort, Asher-Smith delivered an emphatic warning of what might come in this Olympic year when narrowly missing the British 60 metres record in her comeback race on Friday night. Rustiness? What rustiness?
With victory at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meet in Karlsruhe expected, it was to the clock that eyes turned for an idea of what kind of shape Asher-Smith is in after an extended pandemic-enforced training stint that wrote off the entirety of 2020.
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