World Athletics Indoor Championships: Georgia Hunter Bell in GB squad

Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell is in Great Britain’s team for this month’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in China.

Hunter Bell claimed bronze in the 1500m on her Olympic debut at Paris 2024, three years after she returned to the sport.

The 31-year-old has since left her job in cyber security to focus full time on athletics.

She will race in the women’s 1500m at the event in Nanjing from 21-23 March along with team-mate Revee Walcott-Nolan, who took bronze at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in the Netherlands last weekend.

Amy Hunt, part of Britain’s 4x100m women’s relay squad that won silver at Paris 2024, has also been named in the party and will take part in the 60m.

Jeremiah Azu, bronze medallist in the men’s 4x100m at last year’s Games, will contest the same distance in the men’s event.

The 23-year-old claimed men’s 60m gold at the European Indoors last Saturday with a personal best of 6.49 seconds.

Andy Robertson will also take part in the 60m after he picked up the bronze medal behind Azu at Apeldoorn arena.

Pole vaulter Molly Caudery, who pulled out of the European Indoors as a precuation, was one of only two British women to win a gold medal at the 2024 World Indoors in Glasgow and will attempt to defend her crown in China.

Olympic 4x400m relay bronze medal winner Amber Anning will take part in the women’s 400m, Innes FitzGerald is set to contest the 3,000m and Funminiyi Olajide the long jump.

George Mills will race in the men’s 3,000m on the back of a silver medal in Apeldoorn on Sunday, Adam Fogg and Neil Gourley are inked in for the 1500m while Scott Lincoln will take part in the shot put.

The World Indoors usually take place every two years, but the event in Nanjing was rescheduled from 2020 to 2021 and then to 2023 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Glasgow hosted the event in 2024 and, with the bid process having already begun for the 2026 edition, Nanjing was allocated 2025.