European indoor champions Emmanouil Karalis and Oleh Doroshchuk and fellow global medallists Sang-Hyeok Woo and Eleanor Patterson headline non-stop action on Saturday (7) with live streamed World Athletics Indoor Tour events coming up in Athens, Hustopece and Kaunas.
The Fly Athens Indoor meet, a World Athletics Indoor Tour silver meeting, will take place at the Paiania Olympic Indoor Hall and will be the first international competition to be held there in 15 years.
6.00m-plus beckons for Karalis in Athens?
Home favourite and event ambassador Karalis, whose family organises the event, will be looking to impress in front of a home crowd after opening his season, with his best season's opener of 5.93m late in January in Lodz, Poland.
- Live streaming on the European Athletics website (geoblocked in Greece) from 7.00pm CET
Those joining the world silver medallist and joint European indoor champion include fellow member of the coveted six metre-club Chris Nilsen from the United States, the Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo 2020.
With Thibaut Collet a late withdrawal after sustaining a hamstring injury in Caen last Friday, the French assault will be led by his older brother Mathieu who has a lifetime best of 5.74m.
Other notable entrants include European indoor finalist David Holy from Czechia and Hungarian champion Marton Bondor who cleared a lifetime best of 5.70m at the European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division in Madrid where he finished a surprise third.
Doroshchuk v Woo and Patterson lead international line-up in Hustopece
Reigning European indoor champion Oleh Doroshchuk from Ukraine, reigning world indoor champion Sang-Hyeok Woo from South Korea and 2022 world champion Eleanor Patterson shine bright among a global line-up competing at the Hustopečské skákání, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting.
- Live streaming on the European Athletics YouTube channel from 4.55pm CET
Patterson, who won last year with a 1.94m clearance, will be opening her season as she strives to surpass the magical two metre-mark again in 2026, after setting her PB and an Oceania record of 2.02m in 2022.
The Australian will face a strong field in the women's event with opposition comping from 2023 European U23 champion Elena Kulichenko from Cyprus and four-time German champion Imke Onnen who finished ninth and eleventh respectively at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Jamaica's Lamara Distin, who finished third last year and is the only other jumper to have cleared the 2.00m-barrier, is also in the field of a competition which is held in the memory of Miroslava Rezkova-Hubnerova, Czechia’s 1968 Olympic and 1969 European champion who died in 2014.
In the men's competition, European indoor champion Oleh Doroshchuk will renew his rivalry with two-time world silver medallist Woo Sang-Hyeok who defeated the Ukrainian for victory in last year's competition with a 2.31m clearance.
The line-up also includes the United States' Shelby McEwen, the 2024 Olympic silver medallist.
- Live results
Kus v Morauskaite in the 400m in Kaunas
Home favourite and Lithuanian record-holder Modesta Morauskaite faces strong opposition from Poland's up-and-coming 400m prospect Anastazja Kus at the Cosma Indoor Cup, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger meeting, in Kaunas, Lithuania on Saturday.
- Live streaming on the European Athletics website (geoblocked in Lithuania) from 2.55pm CET
In terms of their respective indoor lifetime bests, Morauskaite is more than one second faster with 51.63 although Kus, who won the European U18 400m title in 2024, is an improving athlete and is capable of improving her indoor lifetime best of 53.20.
From an international perspective, Cote d’Ivoire’s Arthur Cisse headlines the men's 60m line-up which also includes Finland’s Eino Vuori, who has set a PB of 6.62 set this year, the Netherlands’ three-time world relay medallist Taymir Burnet, and 20-year-old Lithuanian Adas Dambrauskas.
Former European U23 champion and home favourite Diana Zagainova leads the women’s triple jump ahead of a tight field that includes another 14 metre jumper in Denmark’s Janne Nielsen.