A trio of world indoor medallists headline the 12‑robust New Zealand workforce named for this weekend’s 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, says Athletics New Zealand.
Reigning world indoor shot-put champion Tom Walsh is joined by historical past‑maker Geordie Beamish, who turned New Zealand’s first‑ever world champion on the observe after profitable the 3000m steeplechase on the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Olympic pole vault medallist Eliza McCartney additionally returns to world indoor competitors after amassing silver on the 2024 World Indoors in Glasgow.
She heads to Poland in robust kind, having gained the New Zealand title with a 4.81-metre clearance.
Dash star Zoe Hobbs is about for one more tilt on the girls’s 60m after an unforgettable 2024 World Indoors, the place she twice broke the Oceania document and completed fourth in a blistering 7.06 seconds.
Tiaan Whelpton joins her within the 60m after one other season of constant progress, together with equalling his NZ males’s resident’s document over the 100m on the 2026 Sir Graeme Douglas Worldwide of 10.10s.
Within the pole vault, Imogen Ayris completes the Kiwi duo and travels to Poland following a robust indoor marketing campaign highlighted by a 4.76m private greatest and constant clearances at 4.70m.
Center‑distance runner Alison Andrews‑Paul returns for her second World Indoors within the girls’s 800m.
She’s joined by debutants Boh Ritchie (girls’s 800m), James Harding (males’s 800m), and Thomas Cowan (males’s 800m).
Harding and Cowan have traded the New Zealand indoor document this season, with Harding at present holding the mark at 1:46.44, set in February in Fayetteville, Arizona.
The 400m runners are nationwide record-holder Lex Revell‑Lewis and New Zealand indoor record-holder Annalies Kalma, who additional sharpened her kind by reducing her indoor mark to 51.81 this season.
The indoor 400m, with athletes merging to lane one after roughly 170m, is without doubt one of the most tactical and unpredictable occasions on the programme.
Thrower Tapenisa Havea rounds out the workforce, incomes her senior championship debut within the girls’s shot put.
Competing for the College of Arizona, Havea beforehand completed fourth within the shot put and seventh within the discus on the 2022 World Athletics Below-20 Championships.
New Zealand’s depth within the girls’s pole vault is underscored by Olivia McTaggart additionally attaining the automated qualifying normal of 4.70m and a world prime‑16 rating.
She’s been named as a non‑travelling reserve for Toruń.
