The 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships get underway on Friday (7) in Sopot, and now you can follow every run, jump and throw in more depth than ever before.

The 2014 Nagoya Women s Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, can boast of having two sub-2:23 marathon runners and three sub-2:24 marathon runners who will stand on the start line in the Japanese city on Sunday (9).

Chris Brown, the 2010 world indoor champion, asserted his dominance in the heats of the 400m, leading the qualifiers with a 45.84 clocking, the second-fastest heat time in the history of the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

In the opening track event at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, the women s 400m exponents began their qualifying campaign.

Having been out of the championship arena since 2011, Blanka Vlasic had reason to be excited upon her long-awaited return.

Germany s two-time world champion outdoors David Storl led the qualifiers with 21.24m but there was a couple of surprises as both the USA s Kurt Roberts and Serbia's Asmir Kolasinac failed to progress.

There were only two automatic qualifiers in the women s triple jump, with Jamaica s Kimberley Williams and Ukraine s Olga Saladukha going over 14.30m.

Brianne Theisen-Eaton opened the pentathlon with an explosive display in the first event, the 60m hurdles.

With reigning champion and recent world record-breaker Genzebe Dibaba opting to focus on the 3000m, this event seems to be Abeba Aregawi s for the taking.

With just two days to go to the start of the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Polish city of Sopot, which will be held between 7-9 March, the IAAF website editorial team have put the spotlight on some of the highlights expected this weekend ...