Here are some of the possible highlights at this weekend’s Microplus-sponsored national championships in Birmingham
Green light for Amber Anning
In fine form in the United States lately with a 50.57 clocking for 400m indoors, Amber Anning returns to the UK to take on a strong field in a national championships that doubles up as the trials for the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn next month.
Lina Nielsen, fresh from her UK indoor 300m record at the Keely Klassic, is in the entries, plus Emily Newnham, Ama Pipi and Victoria Ohuruogu.
Amber Anning (Arkansas Razorbacks)
KJT at the double
The world champion and Olympic silver medallist in the heptathlon opened her indoor season recently with a 60m hurdles in Manchester and here, at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham, she competes in the sprint hurdles and shot put.
Caudery to step up a notch
Molly Caudery won the world indoor title in Glasgow last year and in 2025 she is aiming for medals at the European Indoor Championships in the Netherlands and World Indoor Championships in China.
A minor hamstring injury meant she has not started the season in absolutely flying form but she nevertheless vaulted 4.75m in Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf and then 4.73m at the Keely Klassic off a short run-up before bowing out at that height.
She will be looking for more in Birmingham this weekend.
In-form Mills tackles 3000m
George Mills smashed Josh Kerr’s British record with 7:27.92 in France at the start of this month. In Birmingham he faces reigning champion James West and Adam Fogg.
Several cross-country runners such as Tomer Tarragano will surely have been tempted by the English National in Parliament Field this weekend, but they are entered for the indoor champs in Birmingham instead.
Scott Lincoln (Getty)
Great Scott targets national title No.19
Shot putter Scott Lincoln has been training and competing in Australia this winter and he will hope it lays the foundation for another good year.
In 2022 he won bronze at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Then, last year in Rome, he was just outside the medals, in fourth place, at the European Championships.
Only 6cm from a medal in the latter, it was the best British performance in this event since Geoff Capes won European bronze in the same Italian city 50 years earlier.
The 2024 season also saw Lincoln set a PB of 21.31m and he ended his season in style by finishing a fine fifth at the Diamond League in Zurich.
In Birmingham this weekend he will be…
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