World Indoor Athletics 2010: 10 athletes to watch

By Simon Briggs Published: 10:49AM GMT 03 Mar 2010

Previous of Images Next In shape: stick safe black Yelena Isinbayeva has won bullion at the last 3 universe indoor championships Photo: EPA Full focus: Dayron Robles is 60m dilettante Photo: AP Raising the bar: Blanka Vlasic is Croatia"s stream sporting pin-up Photo: EPA

Nataliya Dobrynska, Pentathlon, Ukraine Born: twenty-nine May 1982

The arch hazard to Jessica Ennis, Dobrynska is the Olympic heptathlon champion. Her strengths are her throwing arm and her stamina. If she can stay in hold by the bomb sprints, where Ennis is quicker, her capability over 800 metres will have her a genuine threat.

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Carmelita Jeter, 60 metres, USA Born: twenty-four Nov 1979

A late developer, Jeter dramatically softened her speed over 100metres in 2009, to the point where usually Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster. Her new 60-metre time of 7.06 at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham was a personal best, and most hold that Irina Privalovas 17-year-old universe jot down of 6.92 could come underneath hazard in Doha.

Christian Olsson, triple-jump, Sweden Born: twenty-five Jan 190

After five apart bouts of surgery, Olsson is one of the fewsportsmen who can contest with Andrew Flintoff when it comes to sharp edged metal scars. Won this eventuality in 2003 and 2004, prior to his feet began to give out, but at thirty he is not old for the sport. Jonathan Edwards was still winning triple-jump titles at 36.

Steve Hooker, stick vault, Australia Born: sixteen Jul 1982

Melbourne-based Hooker stands at the behind of usually Sergei Bubka in the list ofgreat pole-vaulters, with a personal most appropriate of 6.06 to Bubkas 6.14. He is the reigning universe and Olympic hold up and contingency be one of the hottest favourites in any event.

Trey Hardee, Heptathlon, USA Born: 7 Feb 1984

The reigning decathlon universe champion, Hardee took on the layer ofhis American stablemate Bryan Clay to set a personal most appropriate of 8790 in Berlin. He is a master of the speed events, but Leonel Suarez, the 22-year-old Cuban, is mending all the time.

Blanka Vlasic, high jump, Croatia Born: 8 Nov 1983

Croatias 6ft 4in pin-up, Vlasic privileged a new indoor personal most appropriate of 2.06 at a assembly in Arnstadt in early February. The universe jot down of 2.08 should be in her sights in Doha.

Dayron Robles, 60m hurdles, Cuba Born: nineteen Nov 1986

Robles crashed out of the last universe indoor championships, in Valencia dual years ago, when he stopped using in the in error idea than a fake begin had been called. Even so, he came behind strongly to win Olympic bullion in Beijing that same year. Recently ran an considerable 7.46 seconds at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham.

Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, 60m hurdles, Canada Born: twenty-six Aug 1982

Lopes-Schliep is an additional hurdler with a measure to solve after she fellin the initial turn in Valencia. Her main antithesis is approaching to come from Americas Lolo Jones, the reigning universe indoor champion, who famously suffered a identical predestine only a couple of feet from the line in Berlin.

Yelena Isinbayeva, stick vault, Russia Born: 3 Jun 1982

You cant have a most improved CV than Isinbayeva, who has taken bullion at the last 3 universe indoor championships. Yet her mastery of the eventuality was damaged at the outside universe championships in Berlin, whereshe unsuccessful to register a successful attempt.

David Gillick, 400m, Ireland Born: Jul 9, 1983

The 26-year-old Irishman done an bomb stroke in Birmingham on Feb twenty when he ran 45.52, the fastest European indoor time for 3 years. Only one curtain has left faster in the universe this year the USAs Torrin Lawrence and he is not approaching to contest in Doha.

Watch entertainment live online to one side at telegraph.co.uk/athleticslive, with movement from the IAAF indoor assembly in Lievin on Mar 5, prior to full live coverage of the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Mar 12, thirteen and 14, in organisation with Aviva.