European indoor champion Zaynab Dosso from Italy headlines a fast women’s 60m line-up at the Czech Indoor Gala in Ostrava, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, on 3 February.
Dosso, who sprinted to gold in Apeldoorn last year in 7.01, faces two finalists including bronze medallist Patrizia Van Der Weken who became the first ever Luxembourger to win a medal in the history of the championships.
Home interest will be provided by European U23 100m champion Karolina Manasova who clocked a Czech record of 7.10 in the 60m semifinals of the European Athletics Indoor Championships where she finished eighth in the final.
Van Der Weken won the 60m at this meeting last year in 7.08, edging out Poland's Ewa Swoboda who was second in 7.09 with Manasova third in 7.19.
Visser, Skrzyszowska and Szymanski added to 60m hurdles line-ups
In the women’s 60m hurdles, European indoor silver and bronze medallists Nadine Visser from the Netherlands and Pia Skrzyszowska will renew their rivalry.
Visser and Skrzyszowska also made the 100m hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo - in another race won by Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji - where the Pole finished fifth to Visser’s eighth.:
Reigning European indoor champion Jakub Szymanski from Poland also faces 2019 European indoor champion Milan Trajkovic from Cyprus in the men’s 60m hurdles.
As previously announced, Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou goes head-to-head with world indoor and outdoor champion Mattia Furlani in the long jump while European champion Leonardo Fabbri takes on home favourite Tomas Stanek and Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell in the shot put.
Multiple major medalist Tina Sutej from Slovenia also faces Czech record-holder Amalie Svabikova in the pole vault.
