Women’s shot put
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The women’s shot put at the World Athletics Indoor Championships to be held in Glasgow 24 will feature three female athletes who have crossed the 20m mark this year.
There’s Chase Jackson (née Ely) of the United States, a two-time world champion. This year it’s undefeated Commonwealth champion and world silver medalist Sarah Mitton (Canada). And European champion Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands recently set a world record of 20.31 meters.
Jackson, a two-time world champion, will likely start as a slight favorite. A proven championship performer, she has a habit of making her best pitches when it matters most, and in the past three world championships she has comfortably thrown distances over 20 meters. She also has the best personal record among the contestants, recording her 20.76 meter heave at the Wanda League final five months ago.
Meanwhile, Schilder currently boasts the best indoor PR in the field thanks to his recent world-class performances. She hit her stride in 2022, winning world bronze medals indoors and outdoors, and gold medals in Europe. Although she missed out on the podium at last year’s World Championships, it is clear that she has started 2024 full of drive and ambition.
Same goes for Mitten, who has won all five tournaments so far this year, throwing 19.50 meters in all but one of them. In her last competition before heading to Glasgow, she threw 20.08 meters, a Canadian indoor record. This is the same distance she threw to win her world silver medal in Budapest last year. She just needs to throw another 20 meters in Glasgow and she could be on the podium.
But the three medal hopefuls are not the only ones.
Germany’s Emisi Ogunleye improved his personal record by 1.30 meters throughout last year and set a new personal best at the world championships. And this year, she picked up where she left off. In her first meet of 2024 she threw her personal best of 19.57 meters, and a week later she improved it with 19.42 meters.
American Maggie Ewen has reached the world championship finals four times. With a best performance of 20.45 meters, it’s only a matter of time before this all-around throwing talent lands on a major podium.
Jamaican record holder Daniel Thomas Dodd won silver at the World Indoors in 2018, followed by silver at the World Outdoors in 2019. She achieved three of her own career bests (over 19.77 meters) in 2023, so she remains a strong contender. .
New Zealand’s Madison-Lee Weche achieved her previous two personal bests in the World Championship finals, finishing seventh in both Oregon and Budapest. It will be her first indoor competition, but the 2018 U20 World Champion has the ability to compete for medals.
Other vocal participants include Jessica Intude from Portugal and Jolinde van Klinken from the Netherlands.
men’s shot put
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America’s Ryan Crouser, the most powerful shot putter in history, heads to the World Track and Field Indoor Championships aiming for his first indoor world title.
But he knows that despite his superiority, he cannot take anything for granted.
Two years ago in Belgrade, he surprisingly lost the title to Darlan Romani. Krauser opened the series with a championship record of 22.44 meters, but Romani surpassed that in the third round with 22.53 meters.
But Crowther, a double world and Olympic champion, has every reason to head to Glasgow with confidence. In his only competition of the year so far, he won the U.S. indoor title with an almighty 22.80 meters, just two centimeters shy of his 2021 indoor world record.
And while Romani arrived in Glasgow with a relatively modest season’s best of 21.10m, he is one of only 10 players with a PR of over 22m, which gives Crowther a day off. I can’t afford to put it there.
Leonard Fabbri won the silver medal after Krauser at last year’s World Championships in Budapest, and the Italian has started 2024 on a high note, setting a national indoor record of 22.37 meters.
The other two men in the field this year are New Zealand’s Tom Walsh and Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell.
Walsh is a two-time indoor world champion, and his 22.90m throw at the 2019 World Championships makes him one of the farthest throwers in history. He was also recently confirmed as the winner of the World Indoor Tour.
Meanwhile, Campbell is hitting his stride at the right time, having won the World Indoor Tour event in Madrid just last weekend with a Jamaican indoor record throw of 22.16 meters.
Fabbri’s teammate Zane Weir excels indoors, winning the European indoor title last year. His outdoor best is 22.44 meters and his season best is a solid 21.84 meters.
Tomas Stanek of the Czech Republic has finished on the podium at the last four European Indoors and won gold in 2021. He also won a bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in 2018.
Jacko Gil has reached the finals of the past seven outdoor world championships and continues to improve year by year, setting a lifetime best of 22.12 meters in 2023. The New Zealander, who won three world age titles as a teenager, will be delighted. He wins his first world medal as a senior.
Area champions Filip Mihaljevic and Chukwwebka Enekwechi may not be members of the 22-meter club, but they are still formidable opponents. European champion Mihaljevic finished fourth at the 2022 World Indoor Championships with 21.83 meters. Enekwesi, a two-time African champion, recently set an African indoor record of 21.63 meters.
John Malkin of World Athletics