The pack is closing on Birke Haylom now - it was always going to be hard to hang on having kicked that early.

The bell rings, Georgia Hunter Bell is on the leader's shoulder now!

Hello there, Birke Haylom.

The Ethiopian flies off the front - she's close to 50m in front of the rest of the pack.

Georgia Hunter Bell is second with 1,000m down.

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We're off in the women's 1500m final.

Georgia Hunter Bell settles towards the middle of this nine-woman field.

Jess Hull of Australia, who took bronze in the women's 3,000m last night, takes up a position at the front.

Georgia Hunter Bell's coach Trevor Painter speaking to BBC Two: "We haven't seen the best of her so far this winter. She's had an unbroken period of training so she's in very good shape, but the races haven't really gone how we would've liked. So I'm quietly confident there's more there, if needed.

"The problem is this is a global final so it's a very high-standard race. There's a number of girls in there with a different plan to us and only one of them can be successful, so let's wait and see."

Fellow coach Jenny Meadows speaking to BBC Two: "She is a real student of the sport. She knows what she's got to do. It will all be about positioning in this final. She does keep herself really composed, so the really important thing is that she knows she can win this title. Only gold will do for Georgia, so fingers crossed she can get that first global gold!"

This is astonishing, Molly Caudery is on the verge of a medal as her competitors struggle badly.

Of the nine contenders at 4.80m, Caudery and Tina Sutej of Slovenia cleared it first time - but they other seven have failed their first two attempts.

Switzerland's Angelica Moser and Marie-Julie Bonnin have just failed their third goes too, and are out.

If all seven fail again, Caudery is guaranteed silver at least.

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The men's long jump final is getting under way and reigning world outdoor and indoor champion Mattia Furlani is the man to beat.

The Italian equalled his long jump personal best of 8.39m in Metz last month. That was only enough to win on countback against rising Bulgarian star Bozhidar Saraboyukov, who has since set a world-leading 8.45m.

Greece’s double Olympic and two-time world indoor champion Miltiadis Tentoglou has a 8.27m season’s best, while South Africa’s 2017 world champion Luvo Manyonga, 35, makes a remarkable comeback - he served a four-year ban until December 2024 for anti-doping violations amid a well-publicised drug addiction.

Greg Rutherford
Former world and Olympic long jump champion on BBC Two

This is going to be very tough for Georgia Hunter Bell, but she did look very good in qualification which is the big thing.

It is hard to bet against the whole M11 training group, but this is going to be a really tough challenge. She has a lot of work to do but she will be going out there fully expecting to run incredibly well.

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Seven entries, seven major championship finals for Georgia Hunter Bell - can she seal her first title?

The 32-year-old has four medals and two fourth places since resuming her athletics career.

“I’m definitely capable of doing really well but anything can happen at a championships, it’s the ultimate leveller,” said Hunter Bell.

So who might spoil her evening? Ethiopia have won eight of the past 11 women’s world indoor 1500m titles and their hopes rest with Birke Haylom, the 2022 outdoor world under-20 champion who qualified fastest for this final.

European indoor champion Agathe Guillemot of France has set a national record of 4:00.64 on this track, Nikki Hiltz of the USA won world indoor 1500m silver two years ago and Australia’s Jess Hull has already won a medal this weekend with 3,000m bronze on Saturday.

Of the nine women still in contention in the pole vault final, only two have gone over 4.80m at the first attempt - Slovenia's Tina Sutej, and Molly Caudery.

The Brit can conserve energy while her medal rivals sweat on progression.

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Colin Jackson
Two-time world 110m hurdles champion on BBC Two

When you've got the start Devynne Charlton has, it's just priceless!

It's not the fact that she's great at reacting or powerful at running to the first hurdle, it's how she runs off the first hurdle which gives her that extra half a metre.

Over 60 metres, that's nigh on impossible to claw back.

Steve Cram
1983 1500m champion on BBC Two

You are going to have to go some to beat Devynne Charlton here!

It is a world leading time - and she wasn't even going flat out.

We did think she would be the one to beat and that performance underlines that thinking.

Devynne Charlton with a real statement performance. Wearing white-rimmed sunglasses, she looked like she was on the beach as she eased over the hurdles and could even afford to slow before the line - all while setting a world leading time of 7.74 seconds.

She will go again in the final at 19.13 GMT.

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The final semi in the women's 60m features the favourite, Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas.

She is the world record holder and reigning world indoor champion.

Steve Backley
Two-time world and Olympic javelin silver medallist on BBC Two

Great leg shoot and very clean from Molly Caudery - she even celebrated on the way down. That's much better alignment as well.

Colin Jackson
Two-time world 110m hurdles champion on BBC Two

Pia Skrzyszowska is showing great form and her home advantage is certainly coming good!

Ditaji Kambundji either made a mistake or completely switched off going off the last hurdle, so there's a few hundredths of a second still to come off her time.

It's a photo finish in heat two!

Pia Skrzyszowska of Poland takes it - she and fellow qualifier Ditaji Kambundji both set a time of 7.76 seconds, the fastest in the world this year.

Denisha Cartwright of the Bahamas finishes third with 7.90 seconds, and her time is good enough to take a non-automatic qualifier bean bag - although it has to be vacated by compatriot Charisma Taylor.

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Heat two offers its own challenges with another Norwegian - Lovise Skarbøvik Andresen.

Danae Dyer of the United States also features - a distant relative of the Danny/Dani British entertainment dynasty?

Will Keely Hodgkinson take part in the final event of these championships? We shall see.

The 24-year-old, a three-time world medallist outdoors, could be considered for the 4x400m relay team after running a personal best 51.49 seconds over the shorter distance at the start of March.

It will depend on how she feels after the 800m final, which takes place less than an hour before the relays start.

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Colin Jackson
Two-time world 110m hurdles champion on BBC Two

The top two in that race were very clear.

Megan Simmonds got a cracking start, as always, getting out really well.

Nadine Visser just bought her time. She is tall and ranging, which makes her very fluent over those barriers.

Onto the next track event, the women's 60m hurdles semis.

Among the first heat is the live texter's nightmare, Martine Kolbeinshavn Hjørnevik of Norway.

She does not progress to the final though, with Nadine Visser of the Netherlands and Jamaica's Megan Simmonds finishing in the top two.

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