World Indoor Preview: Women's running events

60 meters
Top five competing athletes in the Superfan rankings...
Carmelita Jeter USA
LaVerne Jones-Ferrette ISV
Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM
Chandra Sturrup BAH
Sheri-Ann Brooks JAM

Who will win the medals...
Gold: Jones-Ferrette
Silver: Jeter
Bronze: Campbell-Brown
Jeter and Jones-Ferrette are 1-1 this season. When Jeter won it was close and when Jones-Ferrette won it was not. Campbell-Brown is far and away the next best sprinter competing.

400 meters
Top five competing athletes in the Superfan rankings...
Novlene Williams-Mills JAM
Debbie Dunn USA
Tatyana Firova RUS
Amantle Montsho BOT
Natalya Nazarova RUS

Who will win the medals...
Gold: Firova
Silver: Dunn
Bronze: Nazarova
Only the Russians and the Americans take indoor track seriously in this event. Dunn is on the rise, but is up against two tough competitors.

800 meters
Top five competing athletes in the Superfan rankings...
Mariya Savinova RUS
Jennifer Meadows GBR
Yevgeniya Zinurova RUS
Yuliya Krevsun UKR
Elisa Cusma Piccione ITA

Who will win the medals...
Gold: Savinova
Silver: Anna Pierce
Bornze: Meadows
Pierce tends to compete much better than her times would indicate. The other two have been consistently better than anyone else this year.

1500 meters
Top five competing athletes in the Superfan rankings...
Gelete Burka ETH
Anna Alminova RUS
Maryam Yusuf Jamal BRN
Kalkidan Gezahegne ETH
Sylwia Ejdys POL

Who will win the medals...
Gold: Burka
Silver: Gezahegne
Bronze: Jamal
The medal winners will all come from the top four in the rankings. Ethiopians tend to peak very well for championships, so I’m picking them to take the top spots.

3000 meters
Top five competing athletes in the Superfan rankings...
Meseret Defar ETH
Sentayehu Ejigu ETH
Vivian Cheruiyot KEN
Sylvia Kibet KEN
Barbara Parker GBR

Who will win the medals...
Gold: Defar
Silver: Cheruiyot
Bronze: Ejigu
Defar is all but unbeatable here. It will be a Kenya-Ethiopia war for the remaining medals.

60m hurdles
Top five competing athletes in the Superfan rankings...
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep CAN
LoLo Jones USA
Ginnie Powell USA
Perdita Felicien CAN
Christina Vukicevic NOR

Who will win the medals...
Gold: Lopes-Schliep
Silver: Jones
Bronze: Powell
I’m not as confident about this as I was two weeks ago. Both Lopes-Schliep and Jones ran poorly their last times out.