Summary

  • Watch live BBC Two coverage of World Indoor Athletics Championships (UK only)

  • Great Britain win three golds in 28 minutes to finish event with four medals - their best haul at a world indoors

  • Georgia Hunter Bell started gold rush with 1500m triumph for first world title

  • Molly Caudery followed with pole vault gold - second time she has won indoor event

  • Hodgkinson then claimed first world indoor 800m title in dominant fashion

  • Josh Kerr won Britain's first medal with men's 3,000m gold on Saturday

  • Hodgkinson and Dina Asher-Smith returned for 4x400m relay, with GB finishing fifth

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Hodgkinson wins 800m gold in championship record
  1. Postpublished at 17:51 GMT 22 March

    Women’s pole vault final

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

    It looks as though this is going to be a really closely fought battle, probably at a high height as well.

    Molly Caudery is looking very good indeed, for now.

    This is shaping up to be some final.

  2. Caudery clears 4.80m at first attemptpublished at 17:50 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    The field is thinning as the athletes prepare to tackle 4.80m. Thirteen women started the final, nine remain.

    Molly Caudery is among the nine... and she clears it!

  3. Postpublished at 17:47 GMT 22 March

    We have seen plenty of Goosia the goose this weekend, as the official mascot of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze.

    Goosia has been ruffling a few feathers with playful antics on track, we'll have a gander to see what they are up to tonight.

    Mariano Garcia has just been celebrating his 1500m gold with Goosia, who also partied with Mondo Duplantis last night.

    GoosiaImage source, Getty Images
  4. Postpublished at 17:45 GMT 22 March

    Men's 1500m final

    Paula Radcliffe
    Former women's marathon world record holder on BBC Two

    Impressive stuff from Mariano Garcia!

    We wondered whether he would have the gas, but he had enough to just throttle it up every time he was challenged.

    The other athletes did try to challenge him, but every time he was just able to hold them off. It was impressive stuff from him to push it that hard from the front.

  5. gold-medal

    Garcia wins men's 1500mpublished at 17:43 GMT 22 March

    Men's 1500m final

    Mariano García celebrates after winning in the Men's 1500m finalImage source, Getty Images

    It's Mariano Garcia's race!

    The Spaniard sets off with his favoured motorbike celebration having led for much of the race.

    He kicked hard in the first half of the final lap before holding off Portugal's outdoor world champion Isaac Nader, who wins silver.

    Garcia finished with a time of three minutes 39.63 seconds, slower than his time in the heats - it wasn't an especially fast final, with none of the athletes setting even season's bests.

    Adam Spencer of Australia takes bronze.

  6. Postpublished at 17:42 GMT 22 March

    Men's 1500m

    The pace picks up as we reach 1,000m.

    Spain's Mariano Garcia, the fastest in qualifying, still leads.

  7. Postpublished at 17:41 GMT 22 March

    Men's 1500m

    A bit of early excitement in the men's 1500m final as an athlete warming up for the men's long jump runs through the sand pit and almost ploughs into the back of the field.

    Mariano Garcia leads from Isaac Nader at the 500m mark.

  8. Postpublished at 17:37 GMT 22 March

    Men's 1500m final

    Time for our first race of the evening - it's the men's 1500m final.

    No Brits in the nine-man field, although Sam Chapple of the Netherlands has an English father - he's the European indoor 800m champion and set a Dutch 1500m record of 3:32.68 last month on this track in Torun.

    Portugal’s Isaac Nader finished fourth in the past two world indoor finals but took outdoor global gold in September thanks to a 12.29 sec last 100m. He’s since changed coach and set national indoors record over 800m, 1500m and 3,000m.

    Italy’s Federico Riva was seventh at the World Championships in Tokyo last year and recently set a national indoor record of 3:33.04, while Spain’s 2022 world indoor champion Mariano Garcia was fastest in the heats (3:38.19).

  9. Postpublished at 17:35 GMT 22 March

    Women's pentathlon - long jump

    Sofie Dokter of the Netherlands topped the field in the long jump and leads the standings in the women's pentathlon with one event to come.

    The 23-year-old jumped a season's best 6.52m and now has a points total of 3,956.

    She leads Ireland's Kate O'Connor (3,878) and American Anna Hall (3,841), who took silver and gold respectively in the heptathlon at the Tokyo World Championships last year.

    Great Britain's Ellen Barber also jumped a season best, reaching 5.99m to place ninth in the long jump - she sits 12th of 13 athletes overall with 3,435 points.

    The pentathlon's final event, the 800m, is at 19:03.

    ofie Dokter competing on the Women's Long Jump PentathlonImage source, Getty Images
  10. Postpublished at 17:34 GMT 22 March

    Women’s pole vault final

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

    A season best for Molly Caudery!

    She is unbeaten so far this year, after two competitions and two wins.

    I loved her celebration in the air with a significant clearance at a high height.

  11. Watch: Records fall in pole vault and heptathlonpublished at 17:32 GMT 22 March

    Yesterday evening saw records tumble in Torun.

    Men's pole vault king Armand Duplantis broke the world indoor championship records, although not before being pushed all the way by Emmanouil Karalis. That's a rivalry to keep an eye on.

    Meanwhile, a new world record was set in the heptathlon by Switzerland's Simon Ehammer - you can watch how he did it below.

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    Duplantis wins fourth World Indoor Championship in Pole Vault

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    Ehammer breaks men's heptathlon world record

  12. Postpublished at 17:30 GMT 22 March

    Women’s pole vault final

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

    Molly Caudery is off to the perfect start.

    Getting that first height away clean is important, and that's exactly what she has done.

    She just needs to be a little bit careful as she didn't have much room on the way up there, but she is going well.

  13. Postpublished at 17:28 GMT 22 March

    Women's pole vault final

    Whisper it, but injury-plagued Molly Caudery is looking in good nick.

    She is three for three with clearances so far, and has just gone over 4.70m - equalling her season's best.

    Molly Caudery of Team Great BritainImage source, Getty Images
  14. Postpublished at 17:26 GMT 22 March

    Women's 1500m final & Women's 800m final

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

    Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell are in fantastic form.

    They are a brilliant unit and the entire set-up around them is built exactly for them to thrive. This is their great opportunity, so I hope they thrive tonight.

  15. Postpublished at 17:25 GMT 22 March

    And here's how Georgia reached hers...

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    GB'S Hunter Bell into 1500m final but Reekie out in heats

  16. Postpublished at 17:24 GMT 22 March

    Here's how Keely cruised into her final...

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    World Indoor Athletics Championships: Hodgkinson qualifies fastest for 800m final

  17. 'A lot of disappointment but I did hold my own'published at 17:22 GMT 22 March

    Men's shot put final

    Great Britain's Scott Lincoln, who came fourth in the men's shot put final, speaking to BBC Two: "I think being in with a shout all the way through makes the result a bit harder. There's a lot of disappointment but I did hold my own again.

    "I was there all the way through, so to be in it during the last round and giving it a good crack will make my coach happy.

    "My preparations coming into this has been unbelievable. Everything has lined up nicely and fallen into place for me, and I was really feeling it the last couple of days. I was throwing big in training, but obviously that doesn't mean anything if you don't do it out there.

    "We've got two big majors coming up this year at home, so we'll just keep building towards those."

    Scott Lincoln competes in the men's shot put finalImage source, Getty Images
  18. What happened this morning?published at 17:20 GMT 22 March

    GB's Scott Lincoln narrowly missed out on a medal after he finished fourth in the men's shot put after throwing a season best.

    Lincoln achieved 21.13 metres, falling short of bronze by 0.36m. New Zealand's Tom Walsh claimed gold.

    GB qualified for the final event of these championships, the women's 4x400m relay, after finishing second in their heat.

    But it was bad news for Emma Nwofor, who failed to progress through her 60m hurdles heat despite setting a personal best.

    GB's Molly Palmer finished 10th in the women's long jump final.

  19. ICYMI: GB's Kerr reclaims world indoor 3,000m titlepublished at 17:15 GMT 22 March

    Harry Poole
    BBC Sport

    Josh Kerr said his post-injury return to the top of a global podium was a "family win" after he reclaimed his 3,000m title in thrilling fashion to secure Britain's first medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland.

    Kerr, who won gold in the event on home soil in Glasgow two years ago, had his world 1500m title defence ruined by injury in Tokyo in September.

    But, six months after sustaining a calf tear during that final, Kerr demonstrated his return to full fitness by overpowering world-class opposition as the complete line-up of Olympic 1500m medallists went head to head.

    The 28-year-old, now a three-time world champion, made his move on the final lap and would not be denied as he distanced his rivals before crossing the line in seven minutes 35.56 seconds.

    Kerr's comeback from crutches to re-establishing himself at the top of the sport was aided significantly by his mum, who doubles as his physiotherapist.

    "From where we were in Tokyo to right now, having another world gold medal, that's all down to coaching, it's all down to my physio and my mum," Kerr told BBC Sport. "That's a family win right there."

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    Josh Kerr wins gold in men's 3,000m

  20. Postpublished at 17:12 GMT 22 March

    Women’s pole vault final

    Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
    Three-time world heptathlon champion on BBC Two

    The psychological barriers for Molly Caudery must be quite challenging.

    She became world indoor champion in Glasgow after dominating a really strong field there, but she picked up an injury even before she got to take her first attempt in Tokyo.

    You don't expect things like this to happen, but they just keep happening to Molly. She's had a really tough run but she's still extremely young so these experiences will fuel her on.

    When she's competitive and able to jump, she's phenomenal.

    Molly Caudery of Team Great Britain competesImage source, Getty Images