{"id":327769,"date":"2026-03-13T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327769\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:39:19","slug":"eliza-mccartney-vaults-into-nz-team-for-world-indoor-athletics-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327769\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliza McCartney vaults into NZ team for world indoor athletics champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

All nations were limited to two athletes per event in Poland.<\/p>\n

A number of prominent athletes \u2013 Sam Ruthe, Sam Tanner, James Preston, Hamish Kerr, Maddi Wesche, Rosa Twyford and Jacko Gill \u2013 were eligible for selection but made themselves unavailable to focus on preparing for other international events.<\/p>\n

But two other world indoor champs medallists will join McCartney in Poland, with Tom Walsh defending his men\u2019s shot put crown and last year\u2019s 3000m steeplechase champion, Geordie Beamish, running in the 3000m flat event.<\/p>\n

Sprint stars Zoe Hobbs and Tiaan Whelpton will run in the 60m events, after sealing qualification at the Sir Graeme Douglas International meet in Auckland last month. Hobbs finished fourth in the world indoor champs in Glasgow in 2024 and sixth in Nanjing last year, while Whelpton matched his New Zealand resident record over 100m at the Douglas meet.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Walsh won gold at last year’s world indoor champs. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Middle distance athlete Alison Andrews Paul returns for her second world indoors in the women\u2019s 800m, which will also be contested by debutant Boh Ritchie, while James Harding and Thomas Cowan will run in the men\u2019s 800m.<\/p>\n

Harding and Cowan have traded the New Zealand indoor record this season, with Harding holding the mark at 1:46.44, set in February in the United States.<\/p>\n

National record holder Lex Revell Lewis and national indoor record holder Annalie Kalma run in the 400m events, while Tapenisa Havea will compete at world senior level for the first time in the women\u2019s shot put. She finished fourth in the shot put and seventh in the discus at the 2022 world under-20 champs.<\/p>\n

New Zealand team for the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, March 20-22.<\/p>\n

Men <\/p>\n

Tom Walsh, shot put<\/p>\n

Geordie Beamish, 3000m<\/p>\n

Tiaan Whelpton, 60m<\/p>\n

James Harding, 800m<\/p>\n

Thomas Cowan, 800m<\/p>\n

Lex Revell-Lewis, 400m<\/p>\n

Women<\/p>\n

Zoe Hobbs, 60m<\/p>\n

Eliza McCartney, pole vault<\/p>\n

Imogen Ayris, pole vault<\/p>\n

Alison Andrews Paul, 800m<\/p>\n

Boh Ritchie, 800m<\/p>\n

Annalies Kalma, 400m<\/p>\n

Tapenisa Havea, shot put<\/p>\n

Reserve (Non-travelling): Olivia McTaggart, pole vault<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All nations were limited to two athletes per event in Poland. A number of prominent athletes \u2013 Sam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16671,5759,18430,23904,2082,10749,69620,296,685,23905,176518,111,43,139,69,6744,6365,23897,7187,23898,176517,4767,377,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-327769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-championships","10":"tag-champs","11":"tag-eliza","12":"tag-for","13":"tag-impressive","14":"tag-indoor","15":"tag-into","16":"tag-last","17":"tag-mccartney","18":"tag-mccartneys","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-place","24":"tag-poland","25":"tag-pole","26":"tag-team","27":"tag-vault","28":"tag-vaults","29":"tag-weekend","30":"tag-world","31":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}