Life has never come easily to Trayvon Bromell.
He grew up on the south side of the city of St Petersburg, Florida, where poverty and gang violence were common. His best friend ended up in jail and Bromell admits he still to this day carries the scars of PTSD from some of the things he has seen in his life.
He found salvation in athletics. As a first-year university student, he won the NCAA 100m title. At the age of 20 he snared a world 100m bronze medal in Beijing. The following year, he struck 60m gold at the World Indoor Championships.
But since picking up a heel injury in 2016, he has undergone two surgeries and a painstaking rehabilitation which virtually wiped out three full seasons out of his career.
Yet this year Bromell is back. Despite a Covid-19 disrupted period of preparation, the 25-year-old US sprinter blitzed to a 9.90 100m clocking in July &ndash; a performance which currently sits second on the world lists and his fastest time for four years.
Now coached by Rana Reider alongside training partners Omar McLeod, Nia Ali and Andre de Grasse, Bromell is like a man re-born.
His underprivileged background has instilled the 1.75m tall sprinter with the motivation and will to succeed, and the mental resilience he has needed over the past three years.
&ldquo;I grew up around a lot of gang violence and gang influence,&rdquo; explains Bromell. &ldquo;It was a humbling place, a hard place &ndash; where we come from we call it the trenches. But living in these places can make you a man and make you withstand any storm that comes your way.&rdquo;
It is fair to say Bromell has overcome his fair share of storms.
His mother worked 7pm-7am every day and directed him down the right path, &ldquo;making sure I wasn&rsquo;t in those bad situations,&rdquo; explains Bromell. He took up sprinting at the age of four and joined the Lightning Bolt Track Club, where, for the next 14 years, his track career was guided by the inspirational Garlynn Boyd. Bromell describes Boyd as his &ldquo;second mom&rdquo; and she instilled in him a desire to improve. 
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Bromell&rsquo;s sporting journey, however, did not come without its challenges. Between his eighth and tenth grade, he broke his left knee doing a backflip, broke his right knee and forearm playing basketball, and fractured a hip during a race.
&ldquo;It (the injuries and my background) put me in a mind-set where I knew I had to work twice as hard to achieve what I have,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;None of the success you see has come without hard work. I&rsquo;ve had broken bones and health issues, I&rsquo;ve never had time to slack off.&rdquo;
And perhaps as a direct result of not being defeated by these set-backs, Bromell says he now fears no one on the track.
Bromell worked with Boyd to shrug off the injuries, and in his final year at high school he secured the national U20 100m title and earned 100m bronze at the 2013 Pan American Junior Championships in Colombia.
But after graduating from high school, he faced a crossroads in his life.&nbsp;
&ldquo;What took me out of my environment was my decision to go to Baylor (University in Texas),&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;That gave me a better life. I even asked coach (Mike) Ford to try to get me to the school because &lsquo;if I don&rsquo;t leave St Pete, I don&rsquo;t know how my life is going to end&rsquo;.&rdquo;
In the summer of 2013 he was recruited by Baylor, which quickly took his life on a positive trajectory. As a freshman he powered to a world U20 record of 9.97 on his way to the NCAA 100m title. In 2015 he shared world 100m bronze &ndash; coincidentally with his current training partner Andre de Grasse.
He turned pro, banked the 2016 world indoor 60m title and was preparing well for the Rio Olympics, only to pick up a heel injury&ndash; later diagnosed as a bone spur&nbsp;&ndash; the day before the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham in early June. He nonetheless battled on to the US Olympic Trials, where, despite a badly compromised build up, he equalled his PB to claim second in 9.84 and book his spot on the US team for Rio. 
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Trayvon Bromell at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015</div>
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Unfortunately, the injury meant he was unable to produce his best in Brazil. Showing huge mental resilience and fortitude, he scrapped his way to the final but wound up eighth in 10.06.
Ever upbeat, Bromell tried to suck the positives out of his maiden Olympic experience. &ldquo;Of course, it was not on the circumstances I would have wanted, but I can&rsquo;t be mad,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;The opportunity to race in an Olympic final is one many people would wish to have.&rdquo;
On his return home, he underwent surgery in Dallas to remove the bone spur. However, the doctor mistakenly advised Bromell to carry out no strengthening exercises on the heel. This was to prove costly.
The lack of rehab exercises caused a build-up of scar tissue, so Bromell had to undergo a second surgery to fix the problem. In between he had made it to the start line for the 100m heats of the 2017 US Championships but in his only appearance of the year he finished fifth in 10.22.
In 2018 he focused on strengthening his foot and achilles. Endless calf raises were part of the daily training diet while running sometimes up to 1000m in distance &ldquo;whatever the coach asked of me&rdquo; on the track, grass field on underwater treadmill were carried out.
It was, at times, a gruelling road back to full fitness
&ldquo;The hardest part was not being able to do what I love,&rdquo; says Bromell. &ldquo;Track is such a big part of me and my life. What kept me going were the people around me, my faith and mentality. They had to remind me where I&rsquo;d come from. Only the strong survive, and I had to find that fight again. I had to find that fire.&rdquo; 
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US sprinter Trayvon Bromell in action over 60m</div>
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Twenty-four months on from his last competitive appearance, he returned to competition June 2019, finishing eighth in 10.57 in Kingston, Jamaica. In his next race in Montverde, Florida, he shaved 0.03 from that time but tweaked an adductor.
He knew change was necessary and the following month left his long-term coach, Mike Ford, in Texas to join Reider&rsquo;s world-class training group in Florida. Bromell fully acknowledges the huge role Ford played in his career development; he simply required a different set of resources.
&ldquo;I needed to be in a different environment and to try something new,&rdquo; explains Bromell of the switch. &ldquo;Rana has strong credentials, the drive and a fierce work ethic.&rdquo;
Bromell says training under Reider is &lsquo;a grind&rsquo; and completely different to previous training regimes. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not for the weak,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;You have to be ready to hurt.&rdquo;
He doesn&rsquo;t go into specifics, but insists he is not being deliberately evasive. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not lying to you, sometimes the workouts are so hard, it is difficult to remember them!&rdquo;
The training may be tough but the bond forged with his fellow athletes in the Tumbleweed Track Club is strong. He values the whole-hearted support of the likes of De Grasse, Ali, McLeod and others.
&ldquo;I say this with the utmost respect and love, that besides God, I would not be back running if it wasn&rsquo;t for this group of great individuals,&rdquo; he adds.
&ldquo;In the training sessions, I hear the guys shout out &lsquo;you can do it&rsquo; and &lsquo;you can make this comeback&rsquo;. We really push each other. If coronavirus had not have happened, the world would have seen some amazing performances from the Tumbleweed Track Club. The numbers we were putting up in practice were crazy.&rdquo;
Unfortunately, Covid-19 did then hit and Bromell was forced to improvise. Without a track or weight-room facility to access, training with resistance bands and carrying out body circuits at home became the norm. The group trained on grass fields and Reider was forced to yell his instructions from afar to ensure adequate physical distancing. 
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US sprinter Trayvon Bromell</div>
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In July, just a week and a half before his outdoor seasonal debut, Bromell learned of the tragic death of his first coach and &lsquo;second mom&rsquo;, Boyd. She was aged just 54 but had struggled with diabetes &ndash; both of her legs were amputated &ndash; and she had contracted coronavirus.
&ldquo;It was hard,&rdquo; says Bromell. &ldquo;She was like family and always there for me, it was like having another parent. She pushed me and gave me that inner drive. She coached every child as if they were her own. To see someone die who had nurtured so many kids was hard.&rdquo;
Inspired by Boyd, he ran 10.04 &ndash; his quickest 100m time for four years &ndash; in Montverde. Three weeks later he scorched to a 9.90 clocking &ndash; the joint-fourth fastest 100m time of his career &ndash; to defeat world 200m champion Noah Lyles in Clermont. Two more sub-10-second times &ndash; a 9.99 and a windy 9.87 &ndash; followed in August in Montverde before Bromell decided to shut down his brief but confidence-boosting 2020 campaign.
&ldquo;For this season, I did what we wanted to which was to come and run fast,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;When I ran 10.04 for my first outing, it was a big shock. Then to come out and run 9.90 against Noah showed great fitness under difficult circumstances (training in a global pandemic).&rdquo;
Bromell is currently taking a period of rest before returning to training in October when he&rsquo;ll turn his attention to preparing for the rescheduled Olympic Games. Given his past injury situation, Bromell admits the switching of the Tokyo Games could be beneficial for him.
Yet beyond medals and PBs, the Floridian, who went back to college to complete a masters&rsquo; degree in business, has some more general goals to achieve in the future.
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to say I&rsquo;m going to run nine-point-something, I just want to keep inspiring people,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;If I do that, it will be more than I&rsquo;ve ever dreamed of.&rdquo;
Steve Landells for World Athletics

Life has never come easily to Trayvon Bromell.

Back to full health, Bromell's biggest goal is to continue to inspire

It was quite fitting that the meeting at which Trayvon Bromell ran his fastest 100m for more than four years &ndash; a 9.90 clocking in Clermont on Friday (24) &ndash; was called &lsquo;Back To The Track&rsquo;.
Although every athlete has had to overcome challenges this year, the 2016 world indoor 60m champion&rsquo;s journey back to the track this year has been more difficult than most.
After setting a world U20 record of 9.94 in 2014 and earning world bronze in 2015, Bromell was touted as the next big thing in sprinting. He equalled his PB of 9.84 in 2016 and reached the Olympic final, despite running with an achilles that was aggravated by a bone spur in his heel. But after crossing the line in the 4x100m final a few days later, he had to be taken off the track in a wheelchair.
It was the beginning of a three-year injury spell, during which he raced just three times. He joined Rana Reider&rsquo;s group in Florida last year and finally started to make progress, the first clear sign being his 10.04 season opener in Montverde earlier this month.
With the rust blown off, at yesterday&rsquo;s Back To The Track meet in Clermont Bromell went even faster, winning his heat in 9.90 (1.4m/s), the fourth-fastest time of his career, to finish comfortably ahead of world 200m champion Noah Lyles (10.04). Triple Olympic medallist Andre De Grasse won the second heat in 9.97 (1.9m/s).
Bromell opted against running the final, which Lyles won in a wind-assisted 9.93 (2.3m/s) from De Grasse&rsquo;s 9.97.
Both men returned to the track 24 hours later for the 200m. Lyles chased down Kenny Bednarek, the early leader, and pulled away to win his heat in 19.94 (0.8m/s). Bednarek was second in 20.19, finishing just ahead of Divine Oduduru (20.22) and De Grasse (20.24).
World 400m champion Steven Gardiner was a clear winner of the second heat in 19.96 (1.0m/s). Josephus Lyles, Noah's younger brother, set a PB of 20.24 to finish second.
Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo produced the other highlight of the meeting. The Bahamian sprinter stepped down to the 100m and smashed her PB in the heats with 11.03 before going even quicker in the final, stopping the clock at 10.98 (1.4m/s). She now becomes just the fourth woman in history to run sub-11 for 100m, sub-22 for 200m and sub-49 for 400m.
Seventeen-year-old Tamari Davis was second in 11.15, just 0.02 shy of her PB, while Aleia Hobbs won the other final in 11.16.
Miller-Uibo was back in action in Clermont on Saturday (26) to contest the 200m. The world 400m silver medallist was level with 2018 NCAA 400m champion Lynna Irby and hurdles specialist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn at half way, but, as is her style, pulled away in the final 50 metres to cross the line a comfortable winner in 21.98 (2.0m/s). Camacho-Quinn was second in a PB of 22.45, just 0.02 ahead of Irby.
In other international sprint action, double NCAA sprint champion Sha'Carri Richardson clocked a wind-assisted 10.79 (2.7m/s) in the 100m at the AP Ranch High Performance Invitational in Fort Worth. Meanwhile over in Kingston, Jamaica, double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a wind-aided 10.73 (3.0m/s) over 100m.
<h3>Joseph and Mageen set national records in Bern</h3>
Swiss sprint hurdler Jason Joseph and Irish middle-distance runner Ciara Mageean broke national records at the Citius Champs meeting in Bern on Friday (24).
Joseph, the European U23 champion, clocked 13.34 into a -1.0m/s headwind to win the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles, taking 0.05 off the national record he set in 2018 and equalled in 2019.
Mageean, meanwhile, unleashed an impressive kick over the final 200 metres of the women&rsquo;s 800m by more than a second in 1:59.69, becoming the first Irish woman to break two minutes for the distance. Norway&rsquo;s Hedda Hynne was second in 2:00.72 with Renelle Lamote (2:01.50) and Selina Buchel (2:01.79) taking third and fourth.
One week after breaking the Dutch 400m hurdles record, 20-year-old Femke Bol switched to the flat and clocked a PB of 51.13 with 21-year-old compatriot Lieke Klaver finishing second in 51.39, also a PB. They now move to third and fifth respectively on the Dutch all-time list.
Elsewhere in Bern, Ajla del Ponte backed up her recent strong form with an 11.15 (1.9m/s) victory over 100m.
<h3>More records for Finnish hammer duo</h3>
After breaking the Finnish senior and U20 hammer records last month, Krista Tervo and Silja Kosonen returned to Somero on Saturday (25) and improved their respective marks.
Tervo once again came out on top, winning with 72.12m to add 19 centimetres to her own Finnish record. 17-year-old Kosonen was close behind with 71.34m, moving to second on the Finnish senior list and third on the world U20 all-time list. The only 17-year-old ever to throw farther is Poland&rsquo;s 2000 Olympic hammer champion Kamila Skolimowska.
Aaron Kangas won the men&rsquo;s competition with 77.82m, the best throw by a Finnish man for 11 years.
In Schoenebeck on Friday, German champion and world finalist Kristin Pudenz threw a PB of 65.58m to win the women&rsquo;s discus from Claudine Vita (62.69m). Julia Harting was third with 61.16m, her farthest throw since returning to action after giving birth to twins last year.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

It was quite fitting that the meeting at which Trayvon Bromell ran his fastest 100m for more than four years – a 9.90 clocking in Clermont on Friday (24) – was called ‘Back To The Track’.

Bromell clocks 9.90 and Miller-Uibo runs 10.98 and 21.98 in Clermont

Usain Bolt will seek to sign off his Olympic career in typically history-making fashion as the Jamaican track and field icon pursues an unprecedented hat-trick of 100m titles.
The 29-year-old has long spoken of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games being his finale at &ldquo;The Greatest Show on Earth&rdquo; which intensifies the sense of expectation surrounding the sport&rsquo;s marquee star.
Bolt has had a difficult campaign &ndash; most notably after a grade one hamstring tear in the heart of the season disrupted his preparations. While the big Jamaican has not taken the event by storm so far this year &ndash; his season&rsquo;s best of 9.88 places him fourth on the world lists &ndash; he still boasts a four from four record this season and with an unimpeachable championship record it would be a brave man who would back against him securing the golden 100m treble.
Predictably, his main rival is Justin Gatlin of the US, who himself is seeking to create history by becoming the first man in history to regain an Olympic title having triumphed at the Athens Games 12 years earlier.&nbsp;
Like Bolt, Gatlin has had to overcome adversity by way of an ankle injury in the countdown to his 2016 campaign and like the Jamaican he too boasts a 100 per cent record this year with seven wins in as many races.
Gatlin missed out by a whisker on toppling Bolt at last year&rsquo;s World Championships and the 34-year-old veteran will not to fazed by the task ahead.&nbsp;
<h3>Bromell&nbsp;leads&nbsp;the new generation</h3>
Some 13 years Gatlin&rsquo;s junior Trayvon Bromell, a 2015 world bronze medallist, could also be in the mix. Crowned world indoor 60m champion in March he has struggled with an Achilles injury during the outdoor season but a 9.84 clocking - to equal his PB &ndash; for second at US Championships suggests he is in strong form.
The US contingent is rounded out by Marvin Bracy, the 2014 world indoor 60m silver medallist, who holds a season&rsquo;s best of 9.94.
Intriguingly, Bolt is joined on the Jamaican team by the 2012 London Olympic silver medallist Yohan Blake, who is gradually returning to form after several injury-ravaged seasons. The 26-year-old with a best of 9.69 has dipped under ten seconds four times this season and his victory in 9.95 at the Jamaican Championship hinted at better times ahead. Blake&rsquo;s compatriot Nickel Ashmeade (9.94), the 2013 World 100m fifth-placer, is also entered.
The Canadian challenge looks strong led by 2015 World bronze medallist Andre De Grasse, who boasts a season&rsquo;s best 9.99 and is supported by Aaron Brown, who earlier this season blitzed to a 9.96 clocking.&nbsp;
The principal European threat would appear to be the mercurial Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut. The winner at the London stop of the IAAF Diamond League has twice posted sub-9.90 times this season, although he disappointed at the European Championships when he had to settle for bronze when tipped for gold.
The two men ahead of him that day &ndash; two-time Olympic finalist Churandy Martina of the Netherlands and Jamaican-born Turk Jak Ali Harvey could also prove dangerous opposition.
Former world 100m champion Kim Collins, who earlier this year became the first 40-year-old to run a sub-ten second 100m, will make his fifth Olympic appearance some 20 years after the veteran from St Kitts and Nevis made his debut at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Among the other names entered include South Africa&rsquo;s World University Games champion Akani Simbine, African champion Ben Youssef Meite of Ivory Coast, 2015 World Championships finalist Su Bingtian of China and 2008 Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson of Trinidad &amp; Tobago.
Steve Landells for the IAAF

Usain Bolt will seek to sign off his Olympic career in typically history-making fashion as the Jamaican track and field icon pursues an unprecedented hat-trick of 100m titles.

Preview: men's 100m – Rio 2016 Olympic Games

A further 11 global medallists have confirmed that they will compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Birmingham at the Alexander Stadium on Sunday 5 June, the meeting organisers announced on Monday (16).
The men&rsquo;s 200m at the Alexander Stadium looks set to be one of the events of the day as the USA&rsquo;s world indoor 60m champion Trayvon Bromell will be up against Canada&rsquo;s Andre De Grasse.
Bromell and De Grasse, 20 and 21 respectively, have established themselves among the world&rsquo;s best young sprinting talents and will meet over 200m in Birmingham.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really looking forward to testing myself over 200m at the Birmingham Diamond League," said Bromell. "I&rsquo;ve had some close competitions with Andre (De Grasse) at collegiate level and especially in Beijing last summer, and it will be good to compete against him in a 200m.
&ldquo;My indoor season went well and it was a great moment for me winning the world indoor title in Portland in front of an American crowd, but now I&rsquo;m fully focused on the outdoors and Birmingham will be an important meet in my preparations for the Olympics.&rdquo;
&ldquo;The Birmingham Diamond League will be a great meet and I can&rsquo;t wait to go and compete there," said De Grasse. "This is a really important summer for me and hopefully I can run a good 200m in Birmingham to set me in the right direction for the Olympics.&rdquo;
Kendra Harrison, who set a world-leading time of 12.36 last month, will take on a stacked 100m hurdles field which includes her US teammates Kristi Castlin, Dawn Harper Nelson, Brianna Rollins and Nia Ali as well as Great Britain&rsquo;s European champion Tiffany Porter and Australia&rsquo;s Olympic champion Sally Pearson.
Two-time world champion Caterine Ibarguen will headline the women&rsquo;s triple jump event and the Colombian could produce Alexander Stadium's first ever 15-metre jump.
Elsewhere in the field, Germany's Olympic champion Robert Harting will go up against Poland's world champion Piotr Malachowski in the discus.
Marina Arzamasova from Belarus and Germany's Katharina Molitor, the world champions in the 800m and javelin respectively, add further depth to a series of stunning fields in Birmingham.
Organisers for the IAAF
2016 IAAF Diamond League calendar 6 May &ndash; Doha, QAT 14 May &ndash; Shanghai, CHN 22 May &ndash; Rabat, MAR 28 May &ndash; Eugene, USA 2 Jun &ndash; Rome, ITA 5 Jun &ndash; Birmingham, GBR 9 Jun &ndash; Oslo, NOR 16 Jun &ndash; Stockholm, SWE 15 Jul &ndash; Monaco, MON 22-23 Jul &ndash; London, GBR 25 Aug &ndash; Lausanne, SUI 27 Aug &ndash; Paris, FRA 1 Sep &ndash; Zurich, SUI 9 Sep &ndash; Brussels, BEL

A further 11 global medallists have confirmed that they will compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Birmingham on Sunday 5 June, the meeting organisers announced on Monday (16).

Bromell, De Grasse and Ibarguen among the latest names for Birmingham – IAAF Diamond League

The future of world sprinting will be on display at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 9 June when Canada&rsquo;s Andre De Grasse and USA&rsquo;s Trayvon Bromell go into their blocks in the 100m at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games.
The pair tied for third place in the 100m at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015.
Both are successful products of the highly competitive US collegiate system.
De Grasse came through University of Southern California, which has long since been regarded as a sprint factory, producing such great competitors as Lennox Miller and Don Quarrie, while Trayvon Bromell attended Baylor University in Texas where the distinguished alumni include Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner.
In their short careers, both have shown an appetite for quality competition.
De Grasse also has 100m and 200m gold medals from the 2015 Pan American Games while Bromell won the 60m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
De Grasse, 22, brings to Bislett a sense of great talent and tradition, following on from the previous greats of Canadian sprinting: Harry Jerome, Donovan Bailey and Bruny Surin.
Bromell, 21, was a precocious talent when in high school in his native Florida, setting a 100m world junior record.
Barely two months after their appearance in Oslo it is expected that they will be in the hunt for gold in the 100m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Organisers for the IAAF
2016 IAAF Diamond League calendar 6 May &ndash; Doha, QAT 14 May &ndash; Shanghai, CHN 22 May &ndash; Rabat, MAR 28 May &ndash; Eugene, USA 2 Jun &ndash; Rome, ITA 5 Jun &ndash; Birmingham, GBR 9 Jun &ndash; Oslo, NOR 16 Jun &ndash; Stockholm, SWE 15 Jul &ndash; Monaco, MON 22-23 Jul &ndash; London, GBR 25 Aug &ndash; Lausanne, SUI 27 Aug &ndash; Paris, FRA 1 Sep &ndash; Zurich, SUI 9 Sep &ndash; Brussels, BEL

The future of world sprinting will be on display at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 9 June when Canada’s Andre De Grasse and USA’s Trayvon Bromell go into their blocks in the 100m at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games.

De Grasse and Bromell lined up for 100m in Oslo – IAAF Diamond League

Day two at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 saw the athletes take to the track for the first time, with the fans who packed the stands being treated to a night to remember. Here are the six pivotal storylines from an unforgettable evening.
<h3>Theisen-Eaton leaves it late</h3>
Like a true performer &ndash; one with an impeccable sense of dramatic timing &ndash; Canada&rsquo;s Brianne Theisen-Eaton left it until the very last event, and the very last metres, to take gold in the women&rsquo;s pentathlon. The 27-year-old was in third place entering the final event, the 800m, trailing Ukraine&rsquo;s Anastasiya Mokhnyuk and Alina Fodorova by 150 and 36 points respectively.
After finishing second in her last three global championships, it almost seemed destined that Theisen-Eaton would do so again, given she needed to beat Mokhnyuk by over 10 seconds to claim gold. With a partisan American crowd getting behind the Eugene-based athlete, Theisen-Eaton sped through the first 400m behind Barbara Nwaba of the US, and responded to screams of encouragement from the heptathletes infield &ndash; including her husband Ashton Eaton &ndash; to power home in 2:09.99. Next came a nervous wait as the Ukrainians struggled towards the line, but it wasn&rsquo;t soon enough for either of them to deny Theisen-Eaton gold. The first to congratulate her was husband Ashton, the other half of what is now truly the golden couple of athletics.
<h3>Bromell shocks Powell</h3>
No one saw it coming. When Asafa Powell settled into his blocks for the heat five of the men&rsquo;s 60m on Friday afternoon, no one could have known just how swiftly the Jamaican was about to blast down the track. When he coasted across the line and the clock stopped at 6.43, gasps echoed around the Oregon Convention Center, and the time, later corrected to 6.44, moved him to number five on the all-time list. Later in the day, with several athletes much closer to him, Powell did the very same thing &ndash; literally &ndash; running 6.44 to win his semi-final.
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Trayvon Bromell wins the 60m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016</div>
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What everyone wondered, though, was whether Powell &ndash; who has developed a reputation as an unreliable championship performer &ndash; could do it when it mattered most.
One athlete in the field who was ready to test his mettle was world 100m bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell, the 20-year-old who has been dubbed the future of sprinting. When the gun sounded for the final, he showed why that moniker is justified, powering down the track to take victory in 6.47 seconds. Powell, once again, faltered when it mattered most, but managed to hold on for second in 6.50. Barbados&rsquo;s Ramon Gittens, like most others in the arena, had a night he will never forget, and scooped the bronze medal in a national record of 6.51.
<h3>Ali fights back</h3>
Few had predicted that Nia Ali &ndash; who took time out from the sport last year to give birth &ndash; could regain her world indoor title in Portland, facing as she did the might of Kendra Harrison and Brianna Rollins, who blitzed their semi-finals in 7.81 and 7.82 respectively.
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Nia Ali wins the 60m hurdles at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016</div>
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Ali, though, kept her head best as her rivals faltered, taking victory in 7.81 in the final. For Harrison, there was nothing but regret after she clattered the first barrier, putting an end to her race. Rollins, meanwhile, stumbled slightly emerging from the blocks but recovered well to lead midway through the race, and eventually be just denied for gold in 7.82.
&ldquo;In the hurdles, it&rsquo;s always close,&rdquo; said Ali. &ldquo;I had the best race of the season today and it couldn&rsquo;t have fallen on a better day. Being a mother and a professional athlete can sometimes be a struggle, but I can&rsquo;t take full credit for this because I have an amazing support system.&rdquo;
<h3>Reese produces magic</h3>
Once again, when the pressure was at its highest, Brittney Reese reached down into her bag of tricks and pulled off something approaching sorcery, leaping out to a whopping 7.22m jump on her final effort to deny Serbia&rsquo;s Ivana Spanovic gold.
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Brittney Reese at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016</div>
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The moment she hit the sand, she knew it was special, and Reese took off down the track with her arms in the air. Though she had taken the lead in the fifth round with a 7.00m jump, Spanovic responded in kind with an outright Serbian record of 7.07m. Reese, though, saved the best for last, pulling off a jump which only two women in history have bettered indoors.
<h3>Walsh puts rivals in their place</h3>
Tomas Walsh didn&rsquo;t just beat rivals in the final of the men&rsquo;s shot put; he thrashed them. Not only was the New Zealander the only thrower in the competition to surpass 21 metres; he did it five times in a row.
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Tom Walsh in the shot put at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016</div>
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Walsh was a bronze medallist at this event two years ago, but as soon as he launched the sphere out to 21.60m in the second round, it was clear the 24-year-old was destined for gold. With none of his rivals posing any genuine threat in the ensuing rounds, Walsh took to the throwing circle in the final round knowing that his first major title was secured, but rather than rest on his laurels, the Kiwi launched it to an outright Oceanian record of 21.78m.
&ldquo;The experience out there was awesome,&rdquo; said Walsh. &ldquo;The fans were amazing and that drives really good throwing.&rdquo;
There appeared to be weight to Walsh&rsquo;s theory, as the minor medallists had also raised their game on the night. Romania&rsquo;s Andrei Gag threw a season&rsquo;s best of 20.89m to take silver, while Croatia&rsquo;s Filip Mihaljevic threw a personal best of 20.87m to take bronze.
<h3>All too easy for Eaton</h3>
While there was no doubting that he was overshadowed throughout the night by the exploits of his wife, Ashton Eaton quietly and consistently went about building an overnight lead of 63 points in the heptathlon, and given the strength of his second day, he appears unstoppable on his quest for a third successive world indoor title.
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Ashton Eaton in the heptathlon long jump at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016</div>
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Eaton began the day in solid, though unexceptional, fashion with a 6.81 performance in the 60m. While it may have been some way off the 6.66 he opened with in Sopot two years ago, he made up for it when he took to the long jump runway, flying out to a season&rsquo;s best of 8.08m.
The shot put proved a disappointment, with Eaton well down on his best and throwing 14.16m, while his high jump best of 1.99m was also a reasonable, though unspectacular, result. It is a measure of his greatness that without having a superb day, he is still well clear of his chief rivals, with Grenada&rsquo;s Kurt Felix the closest pursuer on 3501 points.
If Eaton does make any major errors on day two, then the athlete most likely to capitalise is fellow American Curtis Beach, who finished the day in fourth place on 3337 points. Beach approached his lifetime bests with his performances in both the 60m (7.04) and long jump (7.65m), and rounded the day off with a solid high jump effort of 2.02m.
&ldquo;I feel good,&rdquo; said Eaton at the end of the day&rsquo;s proceedings. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been good in some things, average in some things, and below average in others. I&rsquo;m excited for tomorrow.&rdquo;
And so is everyone else.
Cathal Dennehy for the IAAF

Day two at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 saw the athletes take to the track for the first time, with the fans who packed the stands being treated to a night to remember. Here are the six pivotal storylines from an unforgettable evening. 

Six storylines from a superb second day in Portland

Trayvon Bromell electrified a sold-out crowd by becoming the first US athlete to claim the men&rsquo;s world indoor 60m title in six years with a personal best of 6.47.
Bromell, who almost didn't make it through to the final at last weekend's US Indoor Championships after finishing fourth in his semifinal, was the first man out of the blocks in lane three and maintained his lead throughout to prevail over Jamaica&rsquo;s Asafa Powell (6.50) and Ramon Gittens of Barbados (6.51).
After becoming the fifth fastest man ever with a Caribbean record of 6.44 &ndash; a time he equalled in the semifinals &ndash; Powell had a poor start and had to come from behind to put himself in a medal position. He did, but could not catch the fast-finishing Bromell, who at 20 became the youngest 60m champion in the history of the championships.
Running his second national record of the day, Gittens was rewarded with his first global medal, Barbados&rsquo; second one ever at the World Indoors and the first once since 1999.
China&rsquo;s Xie Zhenye improved his personal best twice on Friday to finish fourth with 6.53, ahead of his countryman Su Bingtian (6.54).
With just 0.09 separating first and eighth place, it equalled the 2014 race as the closest men's 60m final in history. And with all eight finishers running 6.56 or quicker, it was also the greatest depth race in history.
Javier Clavelo Robinson for the IAAF

Trayvon Bromell electrified a sold-out crowd by becoming the first US athlete to claim the men’s world indoor 60m title in six years with a personal best of 6.47.

Report: men's 60m final – IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016

When Trayvon Bromell was 10, he used to race kids on the street near his home in St Petersburg, Florida, and he rarely lost.
A decade on, little has changed in that sense; the kid has grown up to become one of the fastest men on the planet, having lowered his personal best to 9.84 last year and tied for third in the 100m at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015.
With such an enviable list of accolades for one so young, it&rsquo;s understandable that the 20-year-old is not short on confidence. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never feared anyone,&rdquo; says Bromell, who is deeply religious and prays twice a day. &ldquo;When I&rsquo;ve got God on my side, I fear no man.&rdquo;
Bromell will be one of the star attractions at this weekend&rsquo;s US Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon, where he hopes to book his place on the US team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016, which will also be held at the same venue from 17-20 March.
Two years ago, Bromell won silver over 100m at the IAAF World Junior Championships Oregon 2014, so knows how it feels to take on the world on home turf. &ldquo;I love running up there,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;The fans always come out with a lot of love, so I hope I can go to World Indoors and do something great.&rdquo;
Approximately 7000 people will pack the Oregon Convention Centre for the event, considerably more than the one person &ndash; his uncle Terrell &ndash; who was in attendance when Bromell&rsquo;s talent emerged in that unofficial street race 10 years ago.
<h3>Finding the perfect fit</h3>
It was he who first encouraged Bromell into athletics, but back then, the youngster&rsquo;s sporting dreams always involved him catching a football at the end of a sprint. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t care too much for track, but a lot of people obviously saw something special in me,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;As good as I was at [American] football, I could never gain the weight I needed, so I let that dream go and focused on something that fitted me a little more.&rdquo;
Sprinting, it turned out, suited him perfectly, and Bromell enjoyed a breakout year in 2014, becoming the first U20 athlete in history to break the 10-second barrier in legal conditions by running 9.97 to win the NCAA Championships.
Despite turning professional in October, he continues to take classes at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he is studying communications, and has chosen to remain under the guidance of college coach Michael Ford.
&ldquo;Most athletes, when they change coaches, they go down,&rdquo; says Bromell. &ldquo;Why would you leave someone who helped get you where you are?&rdquo;
He may carry the swashbuckling confidence of a 20-year-old with the world at his feet, but Bromell retains the wisdom of a man twice his age, one who is aware that &ndash; as former marathon world record-holder Steve Jones used to say &ndash; every great runner is one hamstring injury away from oblivion.
As a teenager, Bromell had his fair share of injuries: a broken hip (running), a broken arm (basketball) and two broken knees (trying to do backflips over his friend). Through it all, the physical pain was less damaging than the emotional toll of having to admit his body wasn&rsquo;t built for contact sports.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It kind of messed me up in my head,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;People were all in my ear, but at the end of the day, I just focused on getting better. In track I got better; it was just where I was supposed to be.&rdquo;
<h3>Eyes on the prize</h3>
Despite his success, the memory of those injuries ensures he always keeps one eye on life after athletics. It&rsquo;s for this reason he works just as hard at his academics, attending classes from 8am until 1:30pm each day and squeezing his training in before tutoring sessions in the evening.
&ldquo;Track and field could end in a second, but education is key. That&rsquo;s the only thing that&rsquo;s going to keep you going. I&rsquo;m still trying to balance training and school, but a degree is the main goal out of anything. That comes first.&rdquo;
That said, Bromell is fastidious when it comes to training, heeding the warning of the old adage that hard work beats talent when talent doesn&rsquo;t work hard.
&ldquo;I never socialise. I pretty much go to school, practise, go home, recover and get ready for the next day. When I&rsquo;m at home, I still work out. I do core work, abs, and have a pair of blocks. I don&rsquo;t stop. I practise 24/7.&rdquo;
In his spare time, Bromell likes to pull up old race videos, studying both his form and that of his rivals, figuring out ways to get faster.
Though 2016 is in its infancy, Bromell can sense he&rsquo;s on the right track, and in Kentucky earlier this year, he proved it, lowering his 60m personal best to 6.54.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m getting better every day,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been doing some of the old training and trying new things to make me a better sprinter. My start is good, now it&rsquo;s all about fixing my finish. I gotta be able to finish strong.&rdquo;
In Beijing last year, Bromell actually led Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin halfway through the 100m final, so he knows if he can fit the final piece of the puzzle by the summer, he can be a genuine threat at the Olympic Games.
I ask if the experience in Beijing gave him confidence, perhaps removing any fears he had about competing against &ndash; and being able to beat &ndash; the fastest men in the world.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never been worried about anybody, never been scared of anybody,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Who have I to fear?&rdquo;
Cathal Dennehy for the IAAF

When Trayvon Bromell was 10, he used to race kids on the street near his home in St Petersburg, Florida, and he rarely lost. 

No fear for Bromell as he primes for Portland and beyond 

There were whispers in the off-season that Mo Farah was planning an assault on the world indoor 3000m record at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix, but the Briton has said his foremost aim is victory at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting on Saturday (20).&ldquo;To be honest, it would have been nice to have had a few races and then try and see what I can do but I want to think about how I&rsquo;m going to win this race and secondly, see if I can run a decent time. I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m ready for the world record,&rdquo; admitted Farah, who paid tribute to a world record which has stood since 1998.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s stood for many years &ndash; 7:24 by Daniel Komen. Nobody has gone close to that, not even Kenenisa Bekele or Haile Gebrselassie,&rdquo; added Farah ahead of what will be his first track race since winning the 5000m at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015. &ldquo;I want to try to win the race, run a decent time and end on a high, chill out and come back for the World Half Marathon Championships.&rdquo;The championships will unsurprisingly remain the foremost focus for Farah, who often eschews the opportunity to run fast times on the circuit in favour of getting prepared for the major events.&ldquo;I always want to do well in the championships; I&rsquo;m better in the championships than running fast times. I&rsquo;m getting older &ndash; I&rsquo;m 33 soon so it&rsquo;s getting harder but you&rsquo;ve got to be sensible and my experience helps me a lot.&rdquo;Farah said he &ldquo;can&rsquo;t quite do back-to-back sessions and back-to-back hard runs&rdquo; which were possible when he had fewer miles on the clock but he said his training times are still comparable to the sessions he was putting in this time last year.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m in similar shape to last year,&rdquo; said Farah, who opened his 2015 account with a world indoor best of 8:03.40 for two miles. &ldquo;If I compare my times I was running last year in the training camp, it&rsquo;s similar. I think I&rsquo;m in decent shape.&rdquo;Farah has trained in various locations around the globe over the past decade but the 32-year-old is especially fond of his visits to Ethiopia in spite of some gentle ribbing from the locals.&ldquo;The people out there are so nice, even though I&rsquo;m running for Great Britain and they probably think &lsquo;oh, he&rsquo;s the guy who beats our guys&rsquo;,&rdquo; said Farah. &ldquo;They say &lsquo;Mo&rsquo; or sometimes &lsquo;baldy!&rsquo; But they are quite supportive.&rdquo;<h3>Schippers keeps cards close to her chest</h3>Dafne Schippers has started her season in scintillating shape with a world-leading mark of 7.00 in Berlin, the fastest time by a European sprinter over 60m since the turn of the millennium. But the mantle of medal favourite in Rio doesn&rsquo;t sit entirely well with the unassuming former heptathlete.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say no [on being one of the favourites] as I&rsquo;m the world champion but I&rsquo;m going for the medals over there. I&rsquo;ve made some steps so we&rsquo;ll see what happens,&rdquo; said Schippers, who doesn&rsquo;t miss the balancing act of training for seven events.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s my first winter training as a sprinter which is new and I like it,&rdquo; added Schippers, who is targeting the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland next month. &ldquo;When you do the heptathlon, there&rsquo;s always a feeling that you&rsquo;ve forgotten to do something. Sprinting is easier for the mind.&rdquo;But Schippers&rsquo; 2016 schedule is still far from light. Aside from the 60m, 100m, 200m and the 4x100m relay, she is also planning to compete in one or two long jump competitions this summer as well.Like Schippers, Adam Gemili enjoyed a brilliant European Championships in 2014 but the Brit &ndash; who won gold in the 200m in Zurich in 19.98 into a headwind &ndash; was sidelined for the majority of last summer with a hamstring tear.Gemili&rsquo;s goal on Saturday is to &ldquo;get through it in one piece&rdquo;. A recent lifetime best of 6.59 suggests he could be a factor in the final, although he is aware the competition even for domestic bragging rights will be tough.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s come on leaps and bounds,&rdquo; said Gemili on the standard of British sprinting. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a confidence we can compete with the best in the world &ndash; the Jamaicans and Americans.&rdquo;Gemili will be drawing his abbreviated indoor season to a close after Glasgow to prepare for the summer where he believes he will need to whittle down his lifetime bests &ndash; 9.97 for 100m and 19.98 for 200m &ndash; to be a contender in Rio.&ldquo;9.9 was this magical barrier which every sprinter dreamed of running, but at the moment I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s good enough to be seeking a medal,&rdquo; he said.One of his rivals this summer is likely to be Trayvon Bromell, the up-and-coming 20-year-old who turned professional shortly after taking the bronze medal over 100m at the World Championships in Beijing.Bromell described his season as &ldquo;up and down&rdquo; and alluded to the disappointment of not winning the 100m title at the NCAA Championships but he sufficiently atoned for that performance in the Chinese capital.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t see myself in third place,&rdquo; recalled Bromell on the 100m final. &rdquo;I saw Gatlin and Bolt pass me and I was like &lsquo;man, I&rsquo;m in fifth&rsquo; and then I passed the line and I was like &lsquo;oh, I got third!&rsquo; It was a great year overall and I was happy with it.&rdquo;The 60m this winter has been the Kim Collins vs Mike Rodgers show but Bromell was a close second to Rodgers in Boston last Sunday and could be the interloper in that anticipated clash tomorrow afternoon.Steven Mills for the IAAF

There were whispers in the off-season that Mo Farah was planning an assault on the world indoor 3000m record at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix, but the Briton has said his foremost aim is victory at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting on Saturday (20).

Glasgow press conference highlights – IAAF World Indoor Tour

Trayvon Bromell and Jenn Suhr radiated confidence when discussing their upcoming meeting with a group of reporters in Boston. The two will compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, the second event of this year's IAAF World Indoor Tour, to be held in the suburb of Roxbury on Sunday (14).Suhr, who improved the world indoor record to 5.03m at the end of January, was upbeat but wouldn&rsquo;t commit to a height for Sunday. While she seemed to take for granted the idea of pushing the record up even higher, she cautioned: &ldquo;The hardest part is the opening heights, the opening bar and another height. I have to clear those. Then we can put it up there.&rdquo;She attributed some of her success so far in 2016 to a relatively mild winter. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been able to train above freezing,&rdquo; she said, referring to the small, almost unheated barn-like building in her backyard in New York state where she trains in the winter. However, Suhr jokingly also raised a note of caution about her ability to continue training there: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve scraped my spikes on the roof before. We&rsquo;ve looked in to raising the roof. It would be expensive, but it might be time.&rdquo;Speaking of a potential Olympic clash with local star and 2011 world champion Fabiana Murer, Suhr commented: &ldquo;I love that she&rsquo;s been getting all the attention (in Brazil). It&rsquo;s been fun to watch the pole vault take centre stage. I wish people would realise how big the vault is going to be (at the Olympics). Finally, a field event.&rdquo;Bromell, the world 100m bronze medallist last summer in Beijing and the world junior record-holder at that distance, was just as confident as Suhr. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s any pressure,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s more pressure on the older guys. I&rsquo;ve been treating my first year as a pro like my freshman year in college. When I was a freshman, I won a national (collegiate) title. Hopefully this year I&rsquo;ll win an Olympic gold medal.&rdquo;Bromell&rsquo;s ambitions for his indoor season were a little more restrained. &ldquo;I have to think a lot differently about the 60m,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Indoor isn&rsquo;t my strength. It was all new to me in college, and it was a real strain on the brain figuring out how to execute. This year I&rsquo;ve been running PRs early in the season.&rdquo;Bromell said he plans to run the rest of the World Indoor Tour, racing in Stockholm and Glasgow after Boston, with an eye on winning his event overall and the US$20,000 first prize, but he was also clear about his goals for both the indoor and outdoor seasons: &ldquo;Run better than last year, and drop my times.&rdquo; The current men's 60m points leader, Karlsruhe winner Mike Rodgers, will also be racing on Sunday.Also meeting the press on Friday was Olympic gold medallist Meseret Defar, who will be racing on a track on Sunday for the first time since the 2013 IAAF Diamond League final in Zurich. Defar, who spoke confidently but quickly reached the limits of her English, was clearly eager to return to the Boston meeting where she&rsquo;s had success in the past, including a world indoor best over two miles in 2008. &ldquo;My training has been good, but I don&rsquo;t know my shape,&rdquo; Defar explained, citing that first her daughter born in June 2014, and then an injury in her left leg, kept her from training for nearly three months.&ldquo;Afterwards, it was difficult to get back in shape. But my training has been good.&rdquo;Looking forward to the outdoor season, Defar said she would focus on the 10,000m, saying: &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have that medal yet.&rdquo;USA&rsquo;s 2013 world 800m medallist Brenda Martinez will be running 1500m on Sunday. Martinez struggled with injury during much of 2015. &ldquo;Last year was pretty shaky," she said. "But it left me more hungry."Unlike in 2014 and 2015, when her indoor season was relatively brief, Martinez plans to race in New York later this month, then the US Championships to try for selection for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.Martinez has also been putting energy into building a training group in her base of Big Bear, California, with a highlight being the arrival of Boris Berian, the fastest US 800m runner in 2016, who will contest the 800m on Sunday.Parker Morse for IAAF

Trayvon Bromell and Jenn Suhr radiated confidence when discussing their upcoming meeting with a group of reporters in Boston. The two will compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, the second event of this year's IAAF World Indoor Tour, to be held in the suburb of Roxbury on Sunday (14).

Boston press conference highlights – IAAF World Indoor Tour

Meseret Defar, Trayvon Bromell, and Brenda Martinez are the first three athletes to sign up for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on 14 February, part of the new IAAF World Indoor Tour.Defar is the 2004 and 2012 Olympic 5000m champion and four-time world indoor 3000m champion. The Ethiopian superstar set a two miles world best at this event in 2008. The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix will be Defar&rsquo;s first track competition since she gave birth to a daughter in 2014.&ldquo;Boston really is a second home to me,&rdquo; said Defar, who will be competing at this meeting for the ninth time since 2002. &ldquo;I am very happy to come back to have my first competition on the track back at a place that has been so good to me since the beginning of my career.&rdquo;Bromell last summer became the youngest US athlete in history to win a World Championships medal at 100m when he tied for a surprise bronze in Beijing.He set a world junior record of 9.97 in 2014 and then improved his best to 9.84 last year, making him the fourth-fastest US sprinter in history and the fastest teenager in the world.Martinez became the first US woman to win a World Championships medal at 800m when she took bronze in 2013. At last year&rsquo;s New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, Martinez anchored her team to a world record in the distance medley relay.Organisers for the IAAF2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour calendar 6 February &ndash; Karlsruhe Indoor Meeting (Karlsruhe, GER) 14 February &ndash; New Balance Indoor Grand Prix (Boston, USA) 17 February &ndash; Globen Galan (Stockholm, SWE) 20 February &ndash; Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix (Glasgow, GBR)

Meseret Defar, Trayvon Bromell, and Brenda Martinez are the first three athletes to sign up for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix on 14 February, part of the new IAAF World Indoor Tour.

Defar, Bromell and Martinez set for Boston

World indoor and European indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty and British indoor 60m champion Chijindu Ujah will go up against 2003 world 100m champion Kim Collins and the USA&rsquo;s world 100m bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell when they line up over 60m at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on 20 February, organisers of the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting announced on Saturday (26).Kilty added the European indoor title to his world indoor gold medal earlier this year and has a personal best of 6.49. Although he has never beaten Collins in four attempts over 60m, he remains unbeaten against British team-mate Ujah and will be aiming to continue his impressive indoor form at the Emirates Arena.&ldquo;I love competing indoors and I can&rsquo;t wait to run in Glasgow again," said Kilty. "This will be a good test for me against some of the best sprinters in the world and the best preparation for the British Championships where I want to secure my spot for Portland and try to defend my world title from Sopot two years ago."At the age of 21, Ujah established himself as Britain&rsquo;s best 100m sprinter in 2015, equalling his personal best of 9.96 from 2014 and reaching the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 semi-finals."2015 was another good year for me but I'm already excited for 2016 and getting started at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix," said Ujah. "I've got my eye on improving my personal best (which stands at 6.53) and pushing for sub-6.50. I&rsquo;m sure we will all push each other to some really fast times in Glasgow.&rdquo;Collins, now 39, was the world&rsquo;s best indoor sprinter in 2015, going unbeaten all season and improving his personal best to 6.47. After first competing in Britain in 2002, Collins has raced a number of times in Glasgow but is hoping for his first win on Scottish soil in February.&ldquo;I always love competing in the UK and have been coming to Glasgow for many years, I can&rsquo;t wait to get back there in February," he said. "Being unbeaten indoors in 2015 was an amazing achievement for me and I want to keep the run going this season, but it will be a tough race in Glasgow and the fans could be in for a great show."At the other end of the age scale, Bromell became the world&rsquo;s fastest ever teenager over 100m in the summer, running 9.84 at the US Championships in June and then impressing hugely in Beijing to take the 100m bronze medal.Now 20, the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix will be Bromell&rsquo;s first ever 60m in Europe and he will be looking to challenge his 6.54 personal best.&ldquo;2015 was a great year for me and I was delighted to win a medal in Beijing," he said. "The Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix will be an important meet to set me up for another good year and I&rsquo;m looking forward to testing myself in a world-class 60m race.&rdquo;The Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix will be the final stop of four meetings on the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour, the IAAF's innovative new indoor series.Organisers for the IAAF2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour calendar 6 February &ndash; Karlsruhe, GER 14 February &ndash; Boston, USA 17 February &ndash; Stockholm, SWE 20 February &ndash; Glasgow, GBR

World indoor and European indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty and British indoor 60m champion Chijindu Ujah will go up against 2003 world 100m champion Kim Collins and the USA’s world 100m bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell when they line up over 60m at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on 20 February, organisers of the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting announced on Saturday (26).