2011 indoor preview

February 5 – Boston and Stuttgart

MO FARAH looked in sharp form on the snow in Edinburgh last month and the European champion, who has spent the past month training under the tutelage of Alberto Salazar in New Mexico, contests the 3000m in Boston.

Fresh from a world-leading mark of 7.51 at Kelvin Hall, David Oliver faces Olympic champion Dayron Robles from Cuba in the 60m hurdles in Stuttgart. European and Commonwealth champion Andy Turner made a promising debut in Glasgow and is also in the line-up.

Christophe Lemaitre and Renaud Lavillenie continue their preparations for the European Indoor Championships held on home-soil in Paris next month.

February 5-6 – Tallinn

WORLD indoor heptathlon record-holder Ashton Eaton is confident he can improve his world record of 6499 for the seven-event discipline.

February 6 – Moscow

OLYMPIC champion and world record-holder Yelena Isinbayeva returns to competition after a one-year hiatus. The Russian, who is targeting the European Indoor Championships in March, faces European champion and arch-rival Svetlana Feofanova and Anna Rogowska from Poland.

Having recently cleared 2.38m and attempted a world indoor record of 2.44m, Ivan Ukhov starts as the pre-competition favourite in the high jump where he faces Olympic champion Andrey Silnov.

February 8 – Lieven

JENNY MEADOWS competes in the 800m while world indoor champion Abubaker Kaki from Sudan is the headline act in the men's equivalent. Teddy Tamgho goes head-to-head with Christian Olsson in the triple jump and Renaud Lavillenie faces Malte Mohr in the pole-vault.

February 11 – Düsseldorf

LIU XIANG takes on Dayron Robles in the 60m hurdles.

February 12 – Donetsk

YELENA ISINBAYEVA continues her comeback at the meeting where she set the world indoor record of 5.00m in 2009.

February 13 – Karlsruhe

COMPETING for the second time in the space of three days, Liu Xiang goes head-to-head with David Oliver. Liu set his Asian record of 7.42 on this track in 2007.

February 16 – Bydgoszsz

HOME favourites Anna Rogowska and Tomasz Majewski will face stern opposition on home-soil. Rogowska, who won the world pole-vault title in Berlin 2009, faces world indoor champion Fabiana Murer from Brazil and European champion Svetlana Feofanova from Russia, not to mention team-mate Monika Pyrek.

In the shot put, Olympic champion Majewski goes head-to-head with world champion and last year's world No.1 Christian Cantwell from the USA.

Ivan Ukhov is the headline act in the high jump.

February 19 – Birmingham

AFTER speeding to victory at the Glasgow International for the second year in succession, Jessica Ennis takes on world indoor 60m hurdles champion Lolo Jones again, who will be keen for revenge. The world heptathlon champion will also be contesting the 60m flat where she will take on Olympic finalist Jeanette Kwakye and a brace of Americans including Glasgow winner Alexandria Anderson and sub-11 100m performer Me'Lisa Barber.

Phillips Idowu goes head-to-head with Christian Olsson in the triple jump while the programme concludes with the 5000m, featuring double European champion Mo Farah.