Schippers to Face Asher-Smith Over 60m at Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix 

Published by IAAF on December 3, 2015

European 200m record holder and 2015 200m world champion Dafne Schippers will duel with Britain’s fastest ever woman, Dina Asher-Smith, over 60m at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on 20 February, organisers of the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting announced on Wednesday (2).

Each athlete has beaten the other once over 60m in their careers, with both setting their personal bests at last year’s European Indoor Championships in Prague: a winning time of 7.05 for Schippers and 7.08 for Asher-Smith in second place, the first of five British records the prodigious teenager – who turns 20 on Friday – set during 2015.

“Clocking (the European record) 21.63 in the 200m in Beijing was a huge win for me. I kept thinking ‘if I pull this off, there’s nothing stopping me from doing this again in Rio’. I’m even more committed to putting on an amazing performance, especially in Glasgow where the atmosphere is always electric,” commented Schippers, who was also a 2015 IAAF World Athlete of the Year finalist.