Three gold medals will be on offer, including the men’s 60m title, when the World Athletics Indoor Championships get underway today at Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena in Toruń, Poland.

Jamaica is expected to be represented in all three finals, including the women’s high jump in the morning session and the men’s triple jump in the afternoon session. It will be a busy opening day of the three-day championships for Jamaica, with eight athletes set to compete.

Ackeem Blake, the bronze medallist two years ago in Glasgow, Scotland, leads the men’s 60m charge, which will also include Olympic Games and World Championships 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson and World Championships 200m bronze medallist Bryan Levell.

National record holder Lamara Distin will line up in the women’s high jump, while Jordan Scott will hope to improve on his fourth-place finish in the men’s triple jump from last year’s World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.

Also today, Reheem Hayles and Delano Kennedy will contest the first two rounds of the men’s 400m. Navasky Anderson will compete in the men’s 800m, while Natoya Goule-Toppin and Kelly-Ann Beckford are set to line up in the women’s 800m.

Jamaica will have three representatives in the men’s 60m after Blake was given a wild card for topping the World Athletics World Indoor Tour series rankings with 20 points. Blake accumulated the points after winning the men’s 60m at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on January 24 and at the Millrose Games in New York on February 1.

His season’s best of 6.48 seconds was achieved at the Gibson/McCook Relays, held at the National Stadium on February 28, when he finished behind Thompson (6.46 seconds) and Levell (6.47 seconds). Thompson has only competed indoors once this year, in Stockholm, Sweden in late January, while Levell contested the final of the Millrose Games in New York.

All three rounds of the men’s 60m will be contested on the first day. The first round will run in the morning session, with the qualifiers advancing to the semi-finals later in the second session, followed by the final.

Distin, the 2022 Commonwealth Games champion, has cleared a season’s best 1.96m but will face last year’s three medallists: the Australian duo Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson, as well as Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine in a quality field.

Scott has competed only once so far this season, but his season’s best of 17.11m, set in France in mid-February, currently ranks him fourth in the world.

The first two finishers in each first-round heat of the men’s 400m, along with the next fastest four, will advance to the semi-finals. Hayles and Kennedy will hope to be among those surviving the first round.

Navasky Anderson has built on his historic finals appearance at the World Championships last year and has broken the Jamaican men’s indoor record on at least two occasions this year for a personal best of 1:44.75. He will have to work hard to reach the finals in Poland.

Goule-Toppin will aim to return to the World Indoor final for the first time since 2022, when she placed fourth in Serbia. Beckford will be contesting her first World Indoor Championships but brings experience competing on the shorter banked track after an outstanding career at the University of Houston, where she set a Big 12 Conference record in her final season.