Event-by-event preview of the men’s competitions at the World Indoor Championships in Torun
The men’s competitions at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, scheduled for March 20 - 22, promise world-class drama across every discipline, from the explosive 60 metres and the loaded middle-distance races to the star-studded field events led by Armand Duplantis, Mattia Furlani and Simon Ehammer. Global champions, Olympic medallists, rising teenagers and home hopes will all converge on the Polish stage, setting up one of the deepest and most exciting men’s line-ups of the indoor season.
60 metres
Kishane Thompson will bid for his first global title. The Jamaican star finished second in the Olympic final in Paris 2024, clocking 9.79 and missing Noah Lyles by just five thousandths of a second. Last September he added world silver to his résumé, running 9.82 behind compatriot Oblique Seville in the final at the World Championships in Tokyo. This year Thompson has clocked 6.56 at the Stockholm Indoor Bauhaus Galan and 6.46 outdoors at the Gibson McCook Relays in Kingston.
Ackeem Blake claimed the 2026 World Indoor Tour title after back-to-back wins in Boston in 6.53 and New York in 6.55. Blake also finished third at the Gibson McCook Relays in Kingston in 6.48 outdoors on 28 February. The Jamaican sprinter won bronze in the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 6.46 and later claimed the Diamond League title in the 100m in Brussels with 9.93.
Brian Levell won bronze in the 200 metres at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025, improving his PB to 19.64. This year he ran an impressive 60 metres best of 6.47 outdoors in Kingston.
Jordan Anthony placed third in the men’s 60 metres at the Millrose Games in New York behind Ackeem Blake and Eloy Benitez in 6.64. Anthony then moved to tenth on the world all-time list with a PB of 6.43 at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville. On 1 March the US sprinter won the 60 metres at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island in 6.45 ahead of Trayvon Bromell and Noah Lyles. Anthony made his breakthrough in 2025 when he won two NCAA titles, taking the indoor crown in Virginia Beach in 6.49 before adding the outdoor title.
Trayvon Bromell is aiming to win his second World Indoor Championships medal, ten years after taking gold in Portland 2016. This year he finished second at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island in 6.47.
Jeremiah Azu of Great Britain is chasing another international medal after winning titles at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn and at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, where he set a PB of 6.49. Azu won in Düsseldorf in 6.53 and in Berlin in a PB of 6.47, and also completed a British indoor sprint double in Birmingham, taking the 60m in 6.56 and the 200m in 20.77.
Eloy Benitez of Puerto Rico improved his PB to 6.48 in Cochabamba on 26 February. He then clocked 6.49 in the heats and 6.52 in the semifinal at the World Indoor Championships.
400 metres
Khaleb McRae lowered the world indoor record in the 400 metres to 44.52 in Fayetteville and went on to win the US indoor title in 45.01 in Staten Island. McRae also improved his outdoor PB to 43.91 in London, Ontario, and won world silver in the 4x400 relay at the World Championships in Tokyo in 2025.
McRae will be challenged by compatriot Chris Robinson, the 2023 NCAA champion in the 400 metres hurdles, who finished second in the 400m at this year’s US Indoor Championships in Staten Island with a PB of 45.36.
Christopher Morales Williams will chase his first individual global medal. The Canadian clocked 44.80 in Clemson last February. He set a PB of 44.49 in 2024, but that performance was not ratified as a world record because of an issue with the starting blocks.
Attila Molnar is aiming to add a world indoor medal to a collection that already includes European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025, where he won in 45.25. Molnar won the World Indoor Tour Gold race in Ostrava in 45.01, taking four hundredths of a second off the previous European indoor record shared by Thomas Schönlebe and Karsten Warholm. He finished fourth at last year’s World Indoor Championships in Nanjing.
Jereem Richards won world indoor gold in Belgrade 2022 in 45.00 and world outdoor silver in Tokyo 2025 in 43.72. The 32-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago has set a seasonal best of 45.56 in Fayetteville this indoor season.
Matheus Lima of Brazil, sixth at last year’s World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, is aiming to qualify for his second consecutive final after winning the national indoor title in 45.54 last January.
The other contenders for a place in the final include Muhammad Abdallah Kounta of France, who has clocked 45.62, Tomas Horak, the European U20 indoor record holder with 45.64 this year, and Bryan Onyari Tinega of Kenya, who set the national indoor record with 45.68 in Lubbock.
800 metres
Elliot Crestan of Belgium won three straight World Indoor Tour Gold races, in Ostrava in 1:43.83, Liévin in 1:43.91 and Torun in 1:44.07, before adding the Belgian indoor title in 1:45.53 in Louvain-la-Neuve. Crestan is chasing his fifth podium at a major indoor championships after silver medals at both the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn and the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in 2025, as well as bronze medals at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul 2023 and the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow 2024.
US teenager Cooper Lutkenhaus broke the world U20 record in the 600 metres with 1:14.15 at the Millrose Games in New York. On 14 February he set another world U20 record, running 1:44.03 for 800 metres at the ASICS Sound Running Invite. The 17-year-old rising star went on to win the 800 metres at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island in 1:46.68. Last August he finished second behind Donovan Brazier while setting a world outdoor U20 record of 1:42.27, qualifying for the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo and becoming the youngest US athlete to compete at those championships.
Mohamed Attaoui of Spain clocked 2:14.52 for 1000 metres at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Madrid, breaking Wilson Kipketer’s long-standing European indoor record from 2000. During this indoor season Attaoui also set an indoor PB of 1:44.98 for 800 metres in New York. Outdoors, the Spaniard won European silver in Rome and set the national record of 1:42.04 at the Monaco Diamond League in 2024.
Two-time Polish indoor champion Maciej Wyderka will carry the hopes of the home crowd after setting the national indoor record with 1:44.07 in Ostrava. The Polish team will also feature Filip Ostrowski, who dipped under 1:45 with 1:44.68 in Boston this year.
Other leading names include Mohamed Ali Gouaned, winner in Metz in an Algerian record of 1:44.67, and Mark English, who twice broke the Irish indoor record this year, first with 1:44.65 in Luxembourg and then with 1:44.23 in Ostrava. English is a double European outdoor bronze medallist from Zurich 2014 and Munich 2022. Samuel Chapple of the Netherlands won European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025 in 1:44.88 and has clocked 1:44.75 for 800 metres in Ostrava and 3:32.68 for 1500 metres in Torun. Navasky Anderson of Jamaica, seventh at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 with 1:42.76, set the national indoor record with 1:44.75 at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Torun.
Men’s 1500 metres
Isaac Nader of Portugal will chase his third major medal after winning European indoor bronze in Apeldoorn and world outdoor gold in Tokyo in 2025. This year Nader won two World Indoor Tour Gold races, taking the 3000 metres in Ostrava in 7:38.05 and the 1500 metres in Liévin in a national record of 3:32.44. He also set the Portuguese indoor record in the 800 metres with 1:45.05 in Torun.
Azeddine Habz opened his indoor season with two wins over 1500 metres, running 3:33.36 in Karlsruhe and 3:32.56 in Torun, and also claimed the French indoor title in the 3000m in Clermont-Ferrand.
Federico Riva finished second in Karlsruhe in 3:33.94 and in Liévin in 3:33.04, setting Italian records in both races, and also won national indoor titles over 1500m and 3000m in Ancona.
Stefan Nillessen of the Netherlands won the 3000 metres in Karlsruhe in 7:38.48 and finished fourth in the 1500m in Liévin with an indoor PB of 3:33.64. Nillessen won gold in the 1500m and silver in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the European U23 Championships in Bergen.
Andrew Coscoran of Ireland set national records in the 3000m with 7:30.75 in Boston and in the mile with 3:49.26 in New York in 2025.
Other notable names in the line-up include Samuel Philström of Sweden, World Indoor Tour winner in 2025 and Swedish indoor record holder over 1500 metres in Torun, Belgium’s Pieter Sisk, the national indoor record holder for the mile with 3:50.31 and for 2000m with 4:52.41, and Jochem Vermeulen, who improved his PB to 3:33.71 in Liévin.
Men’s 3000 metres
Cameron Myers of Australia is aiming to win his first senior global medal, two years after taking silver in the 1500 metres at the World U20 Championships in Lima 2024. Myers won the 3000m in Boston in a world lead and Oceanian record of 7:27.57 and then took the Wanamaker Mile in New York in 3:47.57. Last year he broke the world U20 indoor record with 3:47.48 for the mile in New York. During the 2025 outdoor season he finished second at the Dream Mile in Oslo in 3:48.87 and at the Golden Spike in Ostrava in 3:29.80.
Cole Hocker is looking to win his fourth global medal after taking Olympic gold over 1500 metres in Paris 2024, world outdoor gold over 5000 metres in Tokyo 2025 and world indoor silver over 1500 metres in Glasgow 2024. This year Hocker won two 3000 metres races, first at the Millrose Games in New York in 7:37.57 and then at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island in 7:39.25.
Yared Nuguse finished second at both the Wanamaker Mile in 3:48.31 at the Millrose Games and the 3000 metres in 7:39.28 at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island. Nuguse won silver in the 3000 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow 2024 and bronze in the 1500 metres at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
Other leading athletes to watch are Andrew Coscoran, second in Boston in 7:30.97 and fifth in the Wanamaker Mile in New York in 3:49.54 this year, and Azeddine Habz, who ran 7:35.79 for fifth place in Liévin.
60 metres hurdles
Jakob Szymanski of Poland is aiming to win his second major international title, one year after taking European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025 in 7.43. Szymanski has remained unbeaten this season, winning in Luxembourg in 7.48, Lodz in 7.51, Ostrava in 7.48, Belgrade in 7.43, Torun in 7.48, the Polish Indoor Championships in 7.40 and Berlin in 7.37, equalling the world lead shared by Trey Cunningham and Dylan Beard. With that performance Szymanski moved into joint seventh on the world all-time list and extended his winning streak to 11 races this year.
Dylan Beard won the US indoor title in the 60 metres hurdles, setting a world lead and PB of 7.37. In 2025 he finished second in the 110 metres hurdles at the US outdoor Championships in Eugene in 13.04.
Trey Cunningham, world outdoor silver medallist in the 110 metres hurdles in Eugene and NCAA indoor and outdoor champion in 2022, won the 60 metres hurdles in Boston in 7.48 and in Clemson in 7.37, before finishing second at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island in 7.40.
Enrique Llopis has shown excellent form in 2026, lowering his Spanish record by three hundredths to 7.45 in Madrid, matching that time in Liévin and winning the Spanish indoor title in Valencia in 7.51. Llopis won European silver in Rome and finished fourth at the Olympic Games in Paris in the 110 metres hurdles.
Wilhem Belocian has also performed strongly during the 2026 indoor season. He won the French indoor title in Aubière in a seasonal best of 7.45, the World Indoor Tour race in Madrid in 7.51 and placed third in Torun in 7.53. Over the course of his career the Frenchman has won European indoor gold in Torun 2021 in 7.42, European indoor silver in Apeldoorn in 7.45 and world indoor silver in Nanjing in 7.55.
Other leading European hurdlers in the field include Jason Joseph, European indoor champion in Istanbul 2023 in a Swiss record of 7.41 and Swiss indoor champion this year with a seasonal best of 7.50; Lorenzo Simonelli of Italy, world indoor silver medallist in Glasgow in an Italian record of 7.43, European outdoor champion over 110 metres hurdles in Rome in 13.05 and runner-up in Madrid this year in 7.50; Elie Bacari of Belgium, national indoor record holder with 7.50; and Asier Martínez of Spain, world bronze medallist in Eugene and European champion in Munich over 110 metres hurdles.
High jump
Jan Stefela leads the entry list with his seasonal best of 2.32m set in Banska Bystrica. The Czech jumper won silver at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn with 2.29m and bronze at the World Championships in Tokyo with 2.31m.
Woo Sanghyeok of South Korea has won two world indoor gold medals, in Belgrade 2022 with 2.34m and in Nanjing 2025 with 2.31m, as well as two world outdoor silver medals, in Eugene 2022 with 2.35m and Tokyo 2025 with 2.34m. He also won the Diamond League title in Eugene in 2023 with 2.35m.
Oleg Doroshchuk of Ukraine is bidding for another international medal after winning bronze at the European Championships in Rome 2024 with 2.26m and gold at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn 2025 with 2.34m. Doroshchuk also finished fourth at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 with 2.31m. He won the Ukrainian indoor title with 2.30m in Kyiv this year.
Mateusz Kolodziejski will carry Polish hopes of a medal. He won in Hustopece with 2.30m and in Trinec with 2.28m, took the national title in Torun with 2.24m and placed fourth in Banska Bystrica with 2.28m.
Other contenders for a place in the final include Japanese jumpers Tomohiro Shinno, second in Banska Bystrica with 2.30m, and Naoto Hasegawa, second in Hustopece with 2.30m, as well as Christian Falocchi, who won the Italian indoor title in Ancona by improving his PB by two centimetres to 2.30m.
Pole vault
Armand “Mondo” Duplantis opened his 2026 indoor season with a win at the All-Star Perche meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, clearing 6.06m on 22 February before setting the 15th world record of his career with 6.31m at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala. He has now cleared six metres or higher 125 times in his career.
Duplantis is targeting his fourth world indoor title after winning in Belgrade 2022 with a world record of 6.20m, in Glasgow 2024 with 6.05m and in Nanjing 2025 with 6.15m. At last year’s World Indoor Championships he beat Emmanouil Karalis, who cleared 6.05m for silver. Last season Duplantis also won his third straight world outdoor gold in Tokyo 2025 with another world record, 6.30m.
Karalis won European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025 with 5.90m and world outdoor silver in Tokyo with 6.00m. The Greek vaulter cleared 6.17m at the Greek Indoor Championships in Paiania near Athens, the second-best performance in history, and won in Rouen with 6.06m. He has now cleared 6.00m or higher 15 times in his career. Karalis also won in Lodz with 5.93m, at Fly Athens with 5.90m and in Liévin with 6.00m, and finished third in Clermont-Ferrand with 5.90m.
Sondre Guttormsen of Norway finished second in Rouen, improving his national record by six centimetres to 6.06m and moving into joint sixth on the world indoor all-time list. Guttormsen achieved the best ever mark for second place, bettering the 6.05m Karalis cleared at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing. He also cleared 6.00m for second place at the Mondo Classic in his final competition before the championships.
Guttormsen won the World Indoor Tour title in 2025 after victories in Karlsruhe with 5.84m and Liévin with 5.90m. The Norwegian vaulter has won two European indoor medals, gold in Istanbul 2023 with 5.80m and bronze in Apeldoorn 2025 with 5.90m, and cleared a PB of 6.00m at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships.
Kurtis Marshall of Australia finished second in Clermont-Ferrand, clearing six metres for the first time in his career. Marshall has won two world outdoor bronze medals, in Budapest 2023 and Tokyo 2025, both with 5.95m, as well as Commonwealth titles in Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022.
Zachery Bradford won the US indoor title in Staten Island with a PB of 6.01m, joining the six-metre club, and then finished third at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala.
Christopher Nilsen finished second at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Torun with 5.80m and second again at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island with 5.85m. Nilsen won Olympic silver in Tokyo 2021 with 5.97m, world outdoor silver in Eugene 2022 with 5.94m, world outdoor bronze in Budapest 2023 with 5.95m and world indoor bronze in Belgrade 2022 with 5.90m.
Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines has won two world outdoor medals, bronze in Eugene 2022 with 5.94m and silver in Budapest 2023 with the Asian record of 6.00m.
Long jump
Mattia Furlani will seek back-to-back world indoor titles, one year after winning in Nanjing 2025. The 21-year-old Italian became the youngest world outdoor champion in the men’s long jump in Tokyo with a PB of 8.39m, surpassing Carl Lewis, who was 22 when he won the inaugural world title in Helsinki in 1983. Furlani also collected medals at all other major championships in 2024, taking silver at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 8.22m and at the European Championships in Rome with 8.38m, and bronze at the Olympic Games in Paris with 8.34m. In 2025 he added European indoor silver in Apeldoorn. This year Furlani has won all three of his competitions, in Paris-Bercy with 8.33m, Ostrava with 8.30m and Metz with 8.39m, where he beat Bozhidar Saraboyukov on countback.
Saraboyukov won European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025 with 8.13m, edging Furlani by one centimetre. The Bulgarian set a PB of 8.39m in Metz and also produced a second-best jump of 8.37m there. A few days later he set a world indoor lead and Bulgarian indoor record of 8.45m at the World Indoor Tour in Belgrade. He then jumped a championship record of 8.42m to win the Balkan Indoor Championships. At the Bulgarian Indoor Championships he won three national titles, taking long jump with 8.12m, triple jump with 16.61m and high jump with 2.28m.
Miltiadis Tentoglou set a seasonal best of 8.27m at the World Indoor Tour in Belgrade and won the Greek indoor title with 8.22m. He won his first world indoor gold in Belgrade 2022 with a Greek indoor record of 8.55m and successfully defended the title in Glasgow 2024 with 8.22m, beating Furlani on countback in a competition in which just one centimetre separated the top three. During the 2024 outdoor season Tentoglou won his third consecutive European title in Rome, improving his championship record to a PB of 8.65m, and successfully defended his Olympic title in Paris with 8.48m, becoming the first man since Carl Lewis to win back-to-back Olympic long jump golds.
Carey McLeod of Jamaica won world indoor bronze with 8.22m in Glasgow 2024 and captured the NCAA indoor and outdoor titles in 2023.
Liam Adcock made his breakthrough in 2024 when he won world indoor bronze with 8.28m and claimed his first Diamond League victory in Rome with 8.34m, beating Furlani.
Men’s triple jump
Andy Diaz Hernandez of Italy will seek his second consecutive world indoor title, one year after winning in Nanjing with the Italian record of 17.80m. Diaz also won European indoor gold in Apeldoorn with 17.71m and his third Diamond League title in Zurich with 17.56m during a successful 2025 campaign. This season Diaz finished second with 16.90m behind Andrea Dallavalle at the Italian Indoor Championships in Ancona.
Dallavalle won world outdoor silver in Tokyo with a PB of 17.64m and European indoor bronze in Apeldoorn in 2025 with 17.19m. The Italian triple jumper also claimed the national indoor title with 16.99m ahead of Diaz.
Yasser Mohamed Triki of Algeria set the world indoor lead with 17.35m at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Liévin. Triki won world indoor silver in Glasgow 2024.
Lázaro Martínez will seek another international medal after winning world indoor gold in Belgrade 2022 with 17.64m and later taking world outdoor silver in Budapest 2023 with 17.41m and bronze in Tokyo 2025 with 17.49m.
Jordan Scott of Jamaica made his breakthrough in 2025 when he won four Diamond League competitions, in Xiamen with 17.27m, Oslo with 17.34m, Paris with 17.27m and Monaco with a PB of 17.52m.
Melvin Raffin of France, world U20 bronze medallist in Bydgoszcz 2016, has set a seasonal best of 16.89m in Gothenburg.
Shot put
Leonardo Fabbri will seek his second world indoor medal after winning bronze in Glasgow 2024 with 21.96m. Fabbri set the world seasonal lead with 22.50m outdoors in Stellenbosch during his training period in South Africa. He has won three of his four indoor competitions this year, in Liévin with 21.82m, in Hvězdy v Nehvizdech with 21.80m and at the Italian Indoor Championships in Ancona with 21.80m, while finishing third in Torun with 21.43m. Fabbri won the European outdoor title in Rome 2024 with 22.45m, world outdoor silver in Budapest 2023 with 22.34m, world outdoor bronze in Tokyo 2025 with 21.94m and the Diamond League title in Brussels 2024 with an Italian record of 22.98m.
Jordan Geist is qualified by wild card as the winner of the World Indoor Tour. The US shot putter won World Indoor Tour Gold competitions in Ostrava and Madrid with identical marks of 22.04m and finished second in Belgrade with 21.51m and at the US Indoor Championships in Staten Island with 21.72m.
Roger Steen won the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Belgrade with a world indoor lead of 22.07m and added the US indoor title with 21.81m. Steen won silver at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing 2025 with 21.62m.
Tom Walsh of New Zealand will defend his world indoor title after winning in Nanjing 2025 with 21.65m. Walsh recently won the national title in Auckland with 21.10m. He is also a world outdoor champion from London 2017 and an Olympic bronze medallist from both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021.
Chukwuebuka Cornell Enekwechi set a seasonal best of 21.28m in Belgrade. Enekwechi set the African record of 22.10m in Eugene and finished fifth at the World Championships in Tokyo.
Heptathlon
Simon Ehammer of Switzerland is looking to reclaim the world indoor title he won in Glasgow 2024 with 6418 points. He won silver at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, improving his Swiss record to 6506 points, and took another silver at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing with 6363 points. Ehammer set a world-leading score of 6416 points at the Swiss Indoor Championships in Magglingen last February and equalled his PB of 7.55 in the 60 metres hurdles at the Swiss Indoor Championships in St. Gallen, a time that would have been enough for a medal in that event at last year’s World Indoor Championships in Nanjing. Ehammer also won his second Diamond League title in Zurich with 8.32m last year and took European bronze in Rome 2024 with 8.31m in the long jump.
Ehammer will face USA’s Kyle Garland, who owns the second-best score in history with a PB of 6639 points, just six points shy of Ashton Eaton’s world indoor record. Garland improved his decathlon PB to 8869 points at the US Outdoor Championships, moving to tenth on the world all-time list. He won world bronze in Tokyo 2021 with 8703 points after leading the decathlon through eight of the ten events. Garland’s strongest events include PBs of 2.19m in the high jump, 7.96m in the long jump and 17.02m in the shot put.
Heath Baldwin won the US Olympic Trials decathlon title in Eugene 2024 with a PB of 8625 points. Baldwin finished sixth at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025 with 8337 points and won the US indoor title in the heptathlon with 6245 points in Indianapolis.
Jente Hauttekeete of Belgium finished eighth in the heptathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow 2024 at the age of 21 and fifth at last year’s European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, where he equalled the Belgian record with 6259 points. Last September he placed 10th at the World Championships in Tokyo with 8116 points. He won the Belgian indoor title this year with 6212 points, the second-best score of his career.
Makenson Gletty won European decathlon bronze in Rome 2024 with a PB of 8606 points. The Frenchman placed fifth at the 2024 World Indoor Championships and set a heptathlon PB of 6230 points in Aubière that same year. He posted a seasonal best of 6091 points in Linz last February.
Dario Dester improved his own Italian indoor record to 6121 points at the national indoor championships in Ancona. In that competition he set three individual PBs, running 6.91 for 60 metres, throwing 14.68m in the shot put and clocking 2:37.69 for the 1000m. He finished sixth in the decathlon at the European Championships in Rome 2024 with the Italian record of 8235 points.
Vilem Strasky of the Czech Republic finished fifth at last year’s World Indoor Championships in Nanjing and set a PB of 6162 points at last year’s European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.
Ondrej Kopecky finished second at the Czech Indoor Championships in Ostrava with 6059 points, one place ahead of Strasky.
Kendrick Thompson of the Bahamas finished eighth in the decathlon at the World Championships in Tokyo and set a PB of 5963 points in Indianapolis.
4x400 metres relay
Defending champions United States are seeking their 12th world indoor title in the men’s 4x400 relay. The US team won six straight gold medals between 2006 and 2016 and will defend the title they claimed in Nanjing 2025, when they beat Jamaica and Hungary.
The US squad will feature Khaleb McRae and Chris Robinson. McRae ran the third leg at the World Championships in Tokyo 2025, where the United States won silver behind Botswana in a very close finish. He also set the world indoor record in the 400m with 44.52 at the World Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Fayetteville and won the US indoor title in 45.01 in Staten Island.
Robinson won mixed 4x400 gold at the 2025 World Relays and finished second to McRae in 45.36 at the US Indoor Championships.
The United States will take on Belgium, winners of world indoor gold in Belgrade 2022 and Glasgow 2024. The Belgian team includes Jonathan Sacoor, Dylan Borlée, Christian Iguacel and Alexander Doom, who won the individual 400m gold in 2024. Doom also claimed the European outdoor title in Rome 2024. Other members of the Belgian squad include Robin Vanderbemden, a world bronze medallist in the 4x400 relay from Doha 2019, and Julien Watrin, a world indoor relay gold medallist in 2022.
The Netherlands won world indoor bronze in Glasgow 2024 and European indoor gold in Apeldoorn 2025 before finishing eighth at the World Championships in Tokyo last September. The Dutch team will feature Liemarvin Bonevacia and Tony van Diepen, who won Olympic silver in the 4x400 relay in Tokyo 2021.
Hungary will feature three athletes from the team that won world indoor bronze in Nanjing, including Attila Molnar, who won the European indoor 400m title in Apeldoorn and improved the European indoor record to 45.01 this season.
