Fresh from breaking the European indoor 1000m record in Madrid with 2:14.52 last Friday, Mohamed Attaoui will race in his specialist event at the Erfurt Indoor 2026, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger meeting, on Friday (13).
The Erfurt Indoor will be streamed live on the European Athletics YouTube channel from 6.10pm local time (CET) without any geoblocking restrictions and will be accompanied with English-language commentary.
Attaoui will be targeting another fast time as he drops back down to the 800m, the event in which he won a silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. Attaoui has already set an indoor lifetime best of 1:44.98 this year and he could endeavour to attack the Spanish indoor record of 1:44.65.
The women’s 800m features long-time German internationals Majtie Kolberg and Alica Schmidt. But the athlete to beat will be Ireland’s rapidly-improving Emma Moore who has improved to 2:01.21 this year, an outright lifetime best by more than two seconds.
A fast men’s 1500m in store
Another highlight will be the men’s 1500m which features the in-form Maciej Wyderka who steps up in distance having recently set a Polish indoor 800m record of 1:44.07 to break a mark which was held by multiple European indoor and outdoor champion Adam Kszczot.
Wyderka, who has ownership of a 3:37.57 lifetime best for the longer distance, takes on a talented continental field including Czechia’s Filip Sasinek, Belgium’s John Heymans and Norway’s world U20 3000m champion Andreas Fjeld Halvorsen.
Unbeaten in three races in 2026, home favourite Jean Paul Bredau will be looking to extend his streak in the 400m. Bredau faces Switzerland’s Lionel Spitz, Poland’s Kajetan Duszynski and up-and-coming Czech prospect Tomas Horak, 18, who has clocked 46.31 this year and is honing in on the European indoor U20 record of 46.16.
There will also be high domestic expectations in the short sprints. Sub eight-second performers Rosina Schneider and Marlene Meier renew their rivalry in the women’s 60m hurdles while Rebekka Haase and Sophia Junk, both of whom were part of Germany’s bronze medal-winning team in the 4x100m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, are among the standout names on the entry-list for the women’s 60m.
In the only field event on the programme, multiple German champion Torben Blech and reigning world U20 champion Hendrik Muller will both be in action in the men’s pole vault.