With the indoor season fast approaching, which high profile European athletes will be in action on the boards in upcoming weeks?
Another packed indoor season beckons with at least 20 World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver, Bronze and Challenger events in Europe to be live streamed on the European Athletics channels ahead of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy-Pomorze (Torun) from 20-22 March.
Armand Duplantis
The world record-holder is planning an indoor season, albeit a rather abbreviated one. On the road to the World Athletics Indoor Championships where he is targeting a fourth successive title, Duplantis will compete at the All-Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand on 22 February before headlining his home meeting, the Mondo Classic in Uppsala on 12 March.
Emmanouil Karalis
By contrast, Karalis is planning an extensive indoor season ahead of the World Athletics Indoor Championships. A multiple major silver medallist behind Duplantis, Karalis will open his indoor season at the ORLEN Cup in Lodz on 25 January and will face his friend and long-time nemesis in both Clermont-Ferrand and Uppsala.
Ditaji Kambundji
Kambundji stormed to 100m hurdles gold at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo and the Swiss will be in action in the 60m hurdles this indoor season. Kambundji, who also won the 2025 European indoor title in a European record of 7.67, has already been confirmed for Copernicus Cup in Torun on 22 February and for the ISTAF Indoor in Berlin on 6 March.
Nadia Battocletti
Battocletti retained her European cross country title with ease in Lagoa but the 25-year-old will be swapping her cross country spikes for her track spikes as she confirms her next major target is the World Athletics Indoor Championships. She has already been announced for the 1500m at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Madrid on 6 February.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
The world record-holder has already been announced for Cottbus on 28 January and in Banska Bystrica on 24 February on the road to the World Athletics Indoor Championships where the Ukrainian will be looking to regain her title in the high jump. Mahuchikh will be seeking her fourth victory in Cottbus and a record-extending fifth win in Banska Bystrica.
Miltiadis Tentoglou
Following an illness and injury-ravaged 2025, Tentoglou will be looking to regain his world indoor long jump title in March. Along the way, the two-time Olympic champion will compete in Ostrava on 3 February, Belgrade on 11 February and at the Greek Indoor Championships on 28 February-1 March.
Mattia Furlani
Tentoglou looks set to renew his rivalry with Mattia Furlani who won both the world indoor and outdoor long jump titles in 2025. The pair are due to clash for the first time this season in Ostrava.
Isaac Nader
In one of the shocks of the World Athletics Championships, Nader kicked to 1500m gold in Tokyo and the Portuguese will be looking to replicate this feat indoors. Both Nader and his training partner and girlfriend Salome Afonso are targeting the indoor season following their silver medal in the mixed relay at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships.
Yemisi Ogunleye
Olympic shot put champion Ogunleye is planning a busy indoor season and she is already confirmed for domestic appearances in Dusseldorf on 24 January, Nordhausen on 31 January and Rochlitz on 1 February.
Jeremiah Azu
Azu achieved the unique feat of winning Welsh, British, European and world indoor 60m titles in the same season last year and the Brit is embarking on another indoor campaign. Among his confirmed appearances include the BAUHAUS-Galan Indoor in Stockholm on 24 January when he will face Kishane Thompson and the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf on 26 January.
Ewa Swoboda
The charismatic and popular Pole will be one of the faces of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Kujawy Pomorze where she will be looking to return to the podium after winning silver in the 60m in 2024. She has already been confirmed for Dortmund on 8 February and Belgrade on 11 February.
Sander Skotheim
Skotheim broke the European heptathlon record twice last winter and the Norwegian has already confirmed he is targeting a fourth successive victory at the Tallinn Indoor Combined Events meeting. He broke the European record for the first time at that meeting last year with a score of 6484 points, eclipsing Kevin Mayer’s record by five points.
Saga Vanninen
Vanninen won three major titles in the combined events in 2025, including world and European indoor titles in the pentathlon. The Finn, who is coached by 2000 Olympic decathlon champion Erki Nool, will be defending her world indoor title in Torun and she is likely to begin her indoor season in Tallinn at the end of January.
