Spain&rsquo;s Orlando Ortega and France&rsquo;s Dimitri Bascou will line up against current world leader Andy Pozzi and fellow Briton David Omoregie in the 60m hurdles at the M&uuml;ller Indoor Grand Prix, an IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting, in Birmingham on 18 February.
Ortega, who holds an outdoor PB of 12.94, earned the Olympic silver medal in Rio last year. He has raced in Birmingham twice before, setting a PB of 7.67 in 2012 and improving to 7.54 in 2013, equalling what was then his PB. He went on to improve his lifetime best to a world-leading 7.45 in 2015.
Bascou earned medals at three major championships last year. The 29-year-old took bronze at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016, then gold in the 110m hurdles at the European Championships before capping his season with the Olympic bronze medal.
His 60m hurdles PB of 7.41 not only makes him the fastest in the field for Birmingham but also the second-fastest European of all time.
Pozzi, who finished fourth at the 2012 and 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, opened his 2017 campaign with a world-leading 7.56 in Cardiff last weekend, just shy of his lifetime best of 7.53. Omoregie, the 2014 world U20 bronze medallist, finished second to Pozzi in Cardiff with a PB of 7.63.
&ldquo;Running a world-leading time was amazing and I&rsquo;m really happy that everything is coming together,&rdquo; said Pozzi. &ldquo;Winter training has gone well and I&rsquo;m in great shape, so I&rsquo;ll be looking to produce something special at the M&uuml;ller Indoor Grand Prix.&rdquo;
Organisers for the IAAF
2017 IAAF World Indoor Tour calendar 28 Jan &ndash; Boston, USA 1 Feb &ndash; Dusseldorf, GER 4 Feb &ndash; Karlsruhe, GER 10 Feb &ndash; Torun, POL 18 Feb &ndash; Birmingham, GBR

Spain’s Orlando Ortega and France’s Dimitri Bascou will line up against current world leader Andy Pozzi and fellow Briton David Omoregie in the 60m hurdles at the Müller Indoor Grand Prix, an IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting, in Birmingham on 18 February.

Olympic medallists Ortega and Bascou set to take on Britain's best hurdlers in Birmingham

Omar McLeod will start pre-race favourite as he hunts Jamaica&rsquo;s maiden Olympic men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles title.
McLeod, who placed sixth in last year&rsquo;s World Championships final, has stepped up to a new level this year. He began his 2016 campaign with a flourish, setting a national record of 7.41 to take 60m hurdles gold at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
Outdoors he scorched to a world-leading PB of 12.98 in Shanghai, and although he disappointed to place eighth in Monaco in his final pre-Rio IAAF Diamond League appearance, he will be fancied to make a major impact at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
No Spanish athlete has ever won an Olympic men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles medal but hopes are high Orlando Ortega can end the drought. The Cuban-born athlete, who finished sixth in the London 2012 Olympic final, clinched IAAF Diamond League wins in Rome and Monaco &ndash; the latter in a national record 13.04 &ndash; to mark him out as serious gold medal contender.
<h3>Newcomer Allen leads US challenge</h3>
The USA has won this title a remarkable 20 times in 28 previous editions of the event. Although reigning champion Aries Merritt did not qualify via the cut-throat US trials to defend his title, the world&rsquo;s most successful sprint hurdles nation is not lacking in class.
Leading their charge is the multi-talented Devon Allen, who caused a major surprise to land the US title by wiping 0.13 from his lifetime best in a world-class time of 13.03. The 21-year-old, who also plays as gifted wide receiver for the University of Oregon, had the previous month landed the NCAA title and despite his inexperience is a genuine hopeful.&nbsp;
Competing alongside Allen on the US team are Ronnie Ash (13.18) and Jeff Porter (13.21). Ash, who placed second at the US Olympic Trials, has the chance to redeem a disappointing IAAF World Championships last year where he was disqualified from his heat for false-starting. Porter&nbsp;&ndash; husband to Great Britain&rsquo;s 100m hurdler Tiffany Porter &ndash; makes his second Olympic appearance and will hope to go one better than he did at the 2012 Olympics when he progressed to the semi-finals.
France also has a rich tradition in the sprint hurdles and leading their three-strong team is Dimitri Bascou, the recently minted European champion. Bascou set a lifetime best of 13.12 in Monaco and triumphed in the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London to further underline his credentials.&nbsp;
He is supported on the French team by European bronze medallist Wilhem Belocian (13.28) and world indoor silver medallist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, who on his day is another top notch performer.
McLeod is joined on the Jamaican team by Deuce Carter, who at the age of 25 has made a near three-tenths of a second improvement this year to place second at the national championships.
Great Britain&rsquo;s Andrew Pozzi, a two-time fourth-place finisher over 60m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships, has been riddled with injuries in recent seasons. Yet a recent PB of 13.19 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London, coupled with an encouraging third place in Rome, puts the British champion in a confident mood.
Other entrants include Hungary&rsquo;s European silver medallist Balazs Baji (13.28), African champion Antonio Alkana of South Africa (13.28) and Asian gold medallist Xie Wenjun (13.34) of China. Cuba's 2008 Olympic champion Dayron Robles is also entered.
Steve Landells of the IAAF

Omar McLeod will start pre-race favourite as he hunts Jamaica’s maiden Olympic men’s 110m hurdles title.

Preview: men's 110m hurdles – Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Reigning Olympic&nbsp;champion Renaud Lavillenie will lead a French team of 54 athletes at&nbsp;next month&rsquo;s Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
The 29-year-old pole vaulter was the star name announced by the French Federation in recent days and appears their strongest chance of taking gold in Rio.&nbsp;
Four years ago in London, Lavillenie claimed gold with a clearance of 5.97m in the pole vault final and he has been in impressive form so far this season, clearing a world lead of 6.03m indoors and more recently soaring over 5.95m to win his national championships in Angers.&nbsp;
Another who will no doubt have a podium finish&nbsp;on his mind is&nbsp;race walker Yohann Diniz, who&nbsp;despite being the fastest ever at the 50km event, has yet to win an Olympic medal.
Diniz failed to qualify for the Games in 2004, was unable to finish in the 50km event in 2008, then was disqualified at the most recent Olympics in London back in 2012. However, at his best he is almost unstoppable, as he was when setting the current world record of 3:32:33 to win the European Championships in Zurich two years ago. Diniz secured his place in the French team with a clocking of 3:37:48 to win the French national championships back in March, the fastest time in the world in 2016.
Two-time European heptathlon champion Ida Antoinette Nana Djimou is France's sole entrant in the heptathlon, where the 30-year-old will be keen to improve on her fifth-place finish at the London 2012 Olympic Games.&nbsp;
Hammer thrower Alexandra Tavernier will look to recapture the form that saw her throw 74.02m to take the bronze medal in Beijing last year, the 22-year-old holding a season's best of 72.16m this year.
Dimitri Bascou heads a strong trio of athletes in the men's 110m hurdles. The 28-year-old finished fifth in the world final in Beijing last year and took the European title in Amsterdam last weekend in 13.25. Earlier this week he improved his personal best to 13.12 when finishing second at the IAAF Diamond League in Monaco. He will be joined in Rio by compatriots Wilhelm Belocian and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde.&nbsp;
The athletics programme at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games runs from 12-21 August.
IAAF
<h3>French Olympic team&nbsp;</h3>
MEN 100m: Christophe Lemaitre, Jimmy Vicaut 200m:&nbsp;Christophe Lemaitre 800m: Pierre-Ambroise Bosse 1500m: Florian Carvalho 110m hurdles: Dimitri Bascou, Wilhelm Belocian, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde 3000m steeplechase: Yoann Kowal, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Pole vault: Stanley Joseph, Renaud Lavillenie, Kevin Menaldo Long jump: Kefetien Gomis Triple jump: Benjamin Compaore, Harold Correa Decathlon: Bastien Auzeil, Kevin Mayer 20km race walk: Kevin Campion 50km race walk: Yohann Diniz 4x100m: Guy-elphege Anouman, Stuart Dutamby, Christophe Lemaitre, Marvin Rene, Mickael-meba Zeze, Jimmy Vicaut 4x400m: Mame-ibra Anne, Teddy Atine-Venel, Mamadou kasse Hann, Mamadou-elimane Hanne, Thomas Jordier, Ludvy Vaillant WOMEN 400m: Floria Guei 800m: Justine Fedronic, Renelle Lamote Marathon: Christelle Daunay 100m hurdles: Cindy Billaud, Sandra Gomis 400m hurdles: Phara Anacharsis Pole vault: Vanessa Boslak Triple jump: Jeanine Assani Issouf Discus: Pauline Pousse, Melina Robert-Michon Hammer: Alexandra Tavernier Javelin: Mathilde Andraud Heptathlon:Ida Antoinette Nana Djimou 20km race walk: Emilie Menuet 4x100m: Stella Akakpo, Celine Distel-Bonnet, Jennifer Galais, Floriane Gnafoua, Maroussia Pare, Carolle Zahi 4x400m: Elea Mariama Diarra, Marie Gayot, Floria Guei, Brigitte Ntiamoah, Agnes Raharolahy

Reigning Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie will lead a French team of 54 at next month’s Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Defending champion Lavillenie headlines French team for Rio

Ekaterini Stefanidi produced a championship record to win the pole vault to highlight day four of the European Championships in Amsterdam on Saturday (9).
The Greek vaulter handled the swirling winds in Amsterdam&rsquo;s Olympic Stadium with aplomb, claiming gold by clearing first time at each height up to 4.70m.
The 2014 silver medallist then had the bar set to 4.81m &ndash; one up on Yelena Isinbayeva&rsquo;s best from Gothenburg in 2006. She failed her first two attempts after struggling with the crosswind, and though she left the bar rattling with her third effort, it stayed put.
&ldquo;I am ecstatic,&rdquo; the 26-year-old said. &ldquo;With 4.70m I was pretty sure I had won the title, but I also wanted the championship record.&rdquo;
And she got it, as well as her first European title.
Germany&rsquo;s Lisa Ryzih cleared 4.70m at the second attempt before retiring with a tender hamstring. Swede Angelica Bengtsson went over a season&rsquo;s best of 4.65m to claim the bronze.
<h3>Can completes distance double</h3>
Yasemin Can of Turkey sealed a distance double by taking gold in the women&rsquo;s 5000m. Three nights on from running away with the 10,000m title, it was largely the same story again, as she pulled away early and sustained the gap to cross the line in 15:18.15.
The battle behind Can was a more engaging affair. The chasing pack slowly split up as the laps passed, and Sweden&rsquo;s Meraf Bafta emerged strongest as she won silver in 15:20.54. Briton Steph Twell also closed strongly to take bronze in 15:20.70 &ndash; a brilliant performance from a woman who has struggled with injuries more than most.
There were records of another sort in the women&rsquo;s javelin.
Tatsiana Khaladovich went out to 66.34m &ndash; the third best throw in the world this year &ndash; in round two to improve her own Belarusian record and win the gold medal.
Sara Kolak produced a third-round 63.50m for a Croatian record, although it was only enough for bronze after Germany&rsquo;s Linda Stahl pulled out a last-round 65.25m for silver.
World record-holder and world leader Barbora Spotakova looked short of her best, only able to reach 62.66m to finish fifth behind world champion Katharina Molitor.
World discus champion Piotr Malachowski added another European gold to his collection. The Pole hit 67.06m in the fourth round to pick up his second continental title.
Philip Milanov of Belgium took silver with 65.71m. Bronze went to Estonian Gerd Kanter, his 65.27m second-round effort his best of his series and his season.
A European lead and personal best of 17.20m from Max Hess won the German triple jump gold. The world indoor silver medallist&rsquo;s winning mark was his only legal jump of the contest, having fouled three and passed on two of his other efforts.
Poland&rsquo;s Karol Hoffmann produced a personal best of his own (17.16m) in round three to claim silver over Britain's Julian Reid, whose opening 16.76m was enough for bronze.
<h3>Brothers rejoice in 1500m</h3>
Norway&rsquo;s Henrik Ingebrigtsen had the fastest personal best of the field coming into the 1500m final and was favourite for the title in Amsterdam. Yet it was his younger brother Filip who prevailed in a cagey race.
A leisurely 2:10 for the first 800m meant it was always going to be thus, with Filip Ingebrigtsen having the most left in his legs after the race took off at the bell. He was stunned as he took gold in 3:46.65.
&ldquo;This is incredible. I can&rsquo;t believe I&rsquo;ve won,&rdquo; he said, relishing the title all the more after failing to make the final two years ago.
Henrik, who took silver in the same event two years ago and gold in 2012, came home for bronze in 3:47.18. Sandwiched between the two was Spaniard David Bustos, who claimed silver in 3:46.90.
Dimitri Bascou won gold in the 110m hurdles in 13.25. He had been fastest in the semis (13.20) and stepped up in the final to claim his first senior title.
&ldquo;I am very excited,&rdquo; said the proud Frenchman. &ldquo;I made a little mistake but luckily I could go on.&rdquo;
Balazs Baji produced a Hungarian record to claim silver in 13.28. Another Frenchman, world junior champion Wilhem Belocian, ran 13.33 for bronze.
The women&rsquo;s 800m was won by Ukraine's Nataliya Pryshchepa. The race was there to be won with all eight runners bunched up as they hit 600m in 1:29.67.
Coming off the final bend, Pryshchepa &ndash; who has seen her personal best improve by more than five seconds this year &ndash; had to use her hands as well as feet to squeeze through a gap between Rennelle Lamote of France and Selina Buchel of Switzerland. The space opened with 30 metres to go, and she rifled through to claim Ukraine&rsquo;s first gold of the championships in 1:59.70.
Lamote held on for silver in 2:00.19, but Buchel was run down by Sweden's Lovisa Lindh, who took bronze with a personal best of 2:00.37.
<h3>British teams set relay standard</h3>
In the day&rsquo;s qualifying rounds, the British teams owned the relays. Each of the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s teams in both the 4x100m and 4x400m were fastest overall. They will be favourites for all four titles in tomorrow&rsquo;s finals.
Germany's two-time world champion David Storl was the best in shot put qualifying, throwing his way into the final with a first-time 20.84m. The men&rsquo;s high jump was a breeze for world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi, who had no failures on his way to clearing 2.25m to advance.
Later in the day Sara Slott Petersen, fourth at the World Championships last year, was quickest in the 400m hurdles semis in 55.59.
Thomas Byrne for the IAAF

Ekaterini Stefanidi produced a championship record to win the pole vault while Yasemin Can of Turkey completed a distance double victory on day four of the European Championships in Amsterdam on Saturday (9).

Stefanidi, Can and Khaladovich impress on fourth day of European Championships

Dafne Schippers, Dimitri Bascou and Alexandra Wester all produced world-leading marks at the ISTAF Indoor 2016 meeting in Berlin on Saturday evening (13).Schippers regained sole control of the top of the 2016 60m list, after the world junior indoor record of 7.07 by Poland&rsquo;s Ewa Swoboda on Friday equalled what Schippers had run at the opening IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Karlsruhe a week ago. The Dutch sprinter blazed down the track in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in 7.00, the fastest time in the world for three years.She also equalled the Dutch record of Nelli Cooman set 30 years ago in 1986 and moved up to equal ninth on the world all-time list for the event.Schippers had already given notice in her heat that she was in great form, running a world-leading time and personal best of 7.04.Berlin is a famously fast track, as events throughout Saturday night would prove time and time again. Schippers has been distinctly reluctant to talk about times in the past few weeks but almost inevitably she will now face questions about her capability of getting closer to the long-standing world record of 6.92, ran by Irina Privalova in Madrid in both 1993 and 1995.&ldquo;I am very happy with my time of 7.00 because normally I run the 100m and the 200m; they are better for me because I am so tall," said Schippers. "7.00 is a really good time, going under seven seconds would have been amazing but I am saving this for Portland, the World Indoors. I love this competition here: the music, the lights and the support of the 12,000 spectators."Ivory Coast&rsquo;s Marie Josee Ta Lou followed her home in a personal best of 7.06 after taking 0.01 off her previous best when running 7.11 in her heat.Dimitri Bascou also had a day to remember with a French indoor 60m hurdles record of 7.41, the fastest time in the world since 2012.Following a 7.52 heat, Bascou had no problems in the final defeating Orlando Ortega and handing the Spaniard his first loss of the year, although the latter still ran well to record 7.51 for second place.&ldquo;This was a big surprise," said Bascou after becoming the second-fastest European in history. "Our previous French record was very old (7.42 by Ladji Doucoure in 2005) and today I crushed it. It is brilliant that I could achieve that goal today. I wanted to go to the World Indoor Championships anyway, but now I'm going there to run for a medal."<h3>Wester wows Berlin audience</h3>One of the big breakthrough performers of this winter season has been Germany&rsquo;s 21-year-old long jumper Alexandra Wester.She improved her lifetime best from 6.59m to 6.72m in her last competition in Dusseldorf 10 days ago and she decimated that mark twice in the German capital, firstly leaping 6.82m in the second round and then reaching a world-leading 6.95m one round later.Great Britain&rsquo;s Shara Proctor fought hard and had a jump of 6.91m in the second round and two other jumps beyond 6.80m but still had to settle for second place from the inspired young German.&ldquo;It is hard to realise," said Wester. "I wanted to jump 6.75m, the World Indoor Championships standard. I really can't believe this right now. I am still shivering inside. My first jump didn't go well but I knew that I can do better. In the second attempt, I felt better. Now I need to stay focused and repeat my good results."I had a pretty hard time, I was injured a lot but I decided to come back to Germany (after being at university in the USA). And I am really happy here."Brazilian pole vaulter Thiago Braz da Silva was another jumper to have an inspired competition, raising his indoor personal best three times. He went over 5.77m and 5.85m first time and clinched his win, and an absolute area record, when he negotiated 5.93m at the second time of asking.World record-holder Renaud Lavillenie was still in the competition, having also cleared 5.85m with his first attempt, but failed three times at 5.93m and had to settle for second place. Germany&rsquo;s world silver medallist Cindy Roleder took the 60m hurdles title in 7.96 while St Kitts&rsquo; evergreen sprinter Kim Collins was a clear winner of the 60m in 6.53 despite a rather sluggish start, although Great Britain&rsquo;s James Dasaolu &ndash; the fastest man in the heats with 6.58 when he beat Collins &ndash; was disqualified for a false start in the final.Phil Minshull for the IAAF

Dafne Schippers, Dimitri Bascou and Alexandra Wester all produced world-leading marks at the ISTAF Indoor 2016 meeting in Berlin on Saturday evening (13).

World leads for Schippers, Bascou and Wester in Berlin

On a busy weekend of indoor action, numerous national indoor championships got underway on Saturday (21), the highlight of which was a world-leading national high jump record from world indoor champion Kamila Licwinko.Competing at the Polish Indoor Championships in Torun, Licwinko cleared all heights up to and including 1.98m on her first try, but which time she was the only woman left in the competition as Justyna Kasprzycka and Urszula Domel ended with a best of 1.92m.Licwinko then raised the bar to 2.02m and got over it on her third try. She then ended her competition with one unsuccessful try at 2.04m.In the women&rsquo;s 60m, Ewa Swoboda equalled the world age-17 best of 7.21 in the heats before winning the final in 7.22.Elsewhere, Piotr Lisek won the pole vault with a second-attempt clearance at 5.80m before trying 5.90m. Jakub Szyszkowski won the shot with a PB of 20.55, while world junior champion Konrad Bukowiecki, also 17, set a PB of 20.02m.<h3>Storl returns to win fifth national indoor title</h3> Two-time world shot put champion David Storl delayed the start to his season, having undergone surgery this winter. But he returned at this weekend&rsquo;s German Indoor Championships in Karlsruhe to win a fifth successive title.He opened with 20.29m and improved throughout the competition to add almost a metre to that mark, ending his series with a European-leading 21.26m.Former European 100m champion Verena Sailer equalled her PB of 7.12 to win the women&rsquo;s 60m, while Christian Blum won the men&rsquo;s final in 6.57.<h3>Bascou and Belocian impress</h3> Four years after winning his first national indoor 60m hurdles title, Dimitri Bascou won his second at the French Indoor Championships in Aubiere.And, as was the case back in 2011, he did so with a personal best. His winning time of 7.48 was enough to hold off the challenge of world junior champion Wilhem Belocian, who clocked a European age-19 best of 7.53.European indoor champion Jimmy Vicaut picked up a hamstring injury when running 6.68 in the heats of the 60m. In his absence, Christophe Lemaitre won the final in 6.63.Elsewhere, Jeanine Assani Issouf won the triple jump with a PB of 14.13m, while Celine Distel-Bonnet took the women&rsquo;s 60m title in 7.27, having clocked a PB of 7.25 in the heats.<h3>Vivas, Talay and Schippers on top form</h3> European silver medallist Borja Vivas won the shot at the Spanish Indoor Championships with a PB of 20.66m.Former world indoor bronze medallist Alina Talay equalled her PB of 7.88 to win the 60m hurdles at the Belarusian Indoor Championships. Svetlana Kudelich set a national indoor record to win the 3000m in 8:55.94.World heptathlon bronze medallist Dafne Schippers was the star of the Dutch Indoor Championships. The double European sprint champion won the 60m in 7.18, finishing 0.06 ahead of Jamile Samuel.Schippers the won the long jump with an indoor PB of 6.48m. World junior heptathlon bronze medallist Nadine Visser finished second in the long jump with an outright PB of 6.40m.At the Swedish Indoor Championships, world youth champion Irene Ekelund broke her own national junior record to win the 60m in 7.26.Former world junior champion Angelica Bengtsson won the pole vault with 4.60m and then had three attempts at 4.70m.Jon Mulkeen and EME News for the IAAF

On a busy weekend of indoor action, numerous national indoor championships got underway on Saturday (21), the highlight of which was a world-leading national high jump record from world indoor champion Kamila Licwinko.

Licwinko, Bascou and Storl shine on first day of national indoor champs

World Athlete of the Year and pole vault superstar Renaud Lavillenie was again in fine form at the final meeting of the Perche Elite Tour, leaping a world-leading height of 6.01m in the French town of Nevers on Saturday night (7). He cleared 6.01m on his third attempt, after having gone straight over 5.70m and then 5.87m with his first efforts, before keeping the crowd on their seats with three unsuccessful attempts at a world record 6.17m. "It was a rather successful evening. I missed the record but I made some nice attempts. I feel I can do it. I used the same pole when I broke the record. This is a good sign," Lavillenie told local reporters.It was his best performance since his world record 6.16m in Donetsk, Ukraine, last February, and the ninth competition in his career over 6.00m or better.Lavillenie&rsquo;s brother Valentin cleared a personal best of 5.80m for second place while Brazil&rsquo;s 2011 world champion Fabiana Murer won the women's competition with another world-leading mark of 4.83m, adding one centimetre to her own South American indoor record, with French record-holder Marion Fiack a distant second with 4.50m.Elsewhere in France, at the Meeting D&rsquo;Athletisme Mondeville, Dimitri Bascou continued his fantastic start to 2015 by reducing his own 60m hurdles world-leading time and personal best to 7.51.Great Britain&rsquo;s Lawrence Clarke also improved his best, running 7.59, with China&rsquo;s Xie Wenjun third in 7.69. China&rsquo;s world indoor silver medallist Li Jinzhe reached 8.10m to win the long jump while Russia&rsquo;s Ilya Mudrov won the pole vault, clearing 5.61m on his first attempt before failing at 5.71m. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Axumawit Embaye was a class apart in the 1500m, clocking 4:07.07. St Kitts&rsquo; evergreen Kim Collins wasn&rsquo;t as fast as his recent outings but still clocked 6.58 for a clear win in the 60m over Antigua&rsquo;s Daniel Bailey, who was second in 6.63.Anthony Rotich of Bahrain took the plaudits in the 800m and won well in 1:47.85.Phil Minshull for the IAAF

World Athlete of the Year and pole vault superstar Renaud Lavillenie was again in fine form at the final meeting of the Perche Elite Tour, leaping a world-leading height of 6.01m in the French town of Nevers on Saturday night (7). 

World leads in France for Lavillenie, Murer and Bascou

The Netherlands&rsquo; European 1500m champion Sifan Hassan provided the outstanding performance at the first IAAF Indoor Permit meeting of 2015 when she sped to a national record and world-leading 1500m time of 4:02.57 at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Saturday (31).Hassan moved away from Ethiopia&rsquo;s 20-year-old world indoor silver medallist Axumawit Embaye off the final bend, although the latter was second in an indoor personal best of 4:02.92.There were five other world-leading marks in the German city.Turkey&rsquo;s Ilhan Tanui Ozbilen won the men's 1500m in 3:38.05, edging out Kenya&rsquo;s Nixon Chepseba who was second in 3:38.12.France&rsquo;s Dmitri Bascou won the 60m hurdles in 7.53, having run the same time in his heat.&ldquo;Moments after the start tonight (in the final), I made a big mistake. Had this not happened, I would have run under 7.50 tonight," said Bascou.China's Xie Wenjun was second in 7.62 and Great Britain's Lawrence Clarke was third in 7.63, equalling his personal best.Great Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith sped to a 60m time of 7.12, like Bascou, having run as quickly in her preliminary round.The Briton's route to victory was eased by the fact that the Netherlands' European 100m and 200m champion Dafne Schippers, who had also run 7.12 in her heat, was disqualified in the final for a false start.&nbsp; &ldquo;I had not reckoned with this time tonight,&rdquo; bubbled Asher-Smith. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m quite surprised how well I ran tonight.&rdquo;&nbsp; Spain&rsquo;s Eusebio Caceres took the long jump honours with an indoor PB of 8.16m.The Spaniard was languishing down in fifth place with 7.75m before posting his winning attempt in the final round. It spoiled a potential celebration for Germany's Julian Howard, who actually hails from Karlsruhe and who had leapt an indoor best of 8.04m in the second round Russia's former European junior 3000m champion Yelena Korobkina won over 15 laps of the track in a personal best of 8:47.61, almost three seconds faster than she had ever run before under any conditions.Great Britain's Laura Muir was second in 8:49.73 with the first seven women home in indoor personal bests.<h3>Lavillenie fails at 6.01m </h3> Not participating in the orgy of world-leading marks was the evening&rsquo;s headline act, Renaud Lavillenie. The French vaulter initially looked a bit off his game, after going over 6.00m in Rouen last Saturday, and missed his opening jump at 5.73m. He then recovered on his next attempt, posting a meeting record of 5.86m on his first try for the victory.However, he was unsuccessful at what would have been a world-leading 6.01m.&ldquo;I was feeling a little tired tonight,&rdquo; said Lavillenie. "It&rsquo;s not easy to jump six metres every time out. I had great pleasure in breaking the meeting record, so I&rsquo;m not unhappy.&rdquo; Russia&rsquo;s Aleksandr Gripich finished second in an indoor best of 5.73m.USA's Funmi Jimoh won the women&rsquo;s long jump with a 6.71m leap right at the end to beat Sweden&rsquo;s Erica Jarder, who was second with 6.69m. Germany's world-leading Sosthene Moguenara finished third, also with 6.69m.&nbsp; Paul Kipsiele Koech&rsquo;s win in the men&rsquo;s 3000m never seemed in doubt as he cruised to a 7:45.41 win ahead of Germany&rsquo;s Richard Ringer, who clocked a best of 7:46.18US shot putters Christian Cantwell and Ryan Whiting, second and first in Dusseldorf on Thursday, swapped places as Cantwell won with 20.77m to Whiting&rsquo;s 20.72m.&nbsp; Susanna Kallur returned to the city of her 2008 world record in the 60m hurdles, running a competitive race over the barriers for the first time since 2010. The Swede, in the wake of her well-documented injury woes over the past few years, posted creditable 8.14 times in both her heat and final but the competition belonged to Germany&rsquo;s Cindy Roleder, who won with 8.03 in the final.&nbsp; Phil Minshull and Ed Gordon for the IAAF &nbsp;

The Netherlands’ 2014 European 1500m champion Sifan Hassan provided the outstanding performance at the first IAAF Indoor Permit meeting of 2015 when she sped to a national record and world-leading 1500m time of 4:02.57 at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Saturday (31).