Although 2024 will be mainly remembered for the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, GB & NI were out in force competing this year at multiple championships.

We take a brief trip down memory lane to remind ourselves of the highlights of the World Athletics Indoor Championships, where GB & NI claimed four medals in their home event with two gold, one silver and one bronze to place fifth in the overall medals table.

Scotland’s star middle-distance duo, Josh Kerr (Danny Mackey; Edinburgh) and Jemma Reekie (Jon Bigg; Kilbarchan) – together with English pole vaulter, Molly Caudery (Scott Simpson; Thames Valley) delighted the Glaswegian crowds as they stole the show with glorious medal-winning displays.

Kerr added the men’s global indoor 3,000m title to his world outdoor 1500m crown from the previous summer with a superbly dominant display, storming to a popular 7:42.98 victory.

Only three weeks earlier, Kerr had set a world record for two-miles in New York and such a performance on home-turf subsequently gave him the confidence to take Olympic silver in the metric mile five months later in Paris.

On the in-field, Caudery secured a sensational women’s pole vault gold to announce herself on the international stage.

Fifth in Budapest, she leapt 4.85m in a thrilling competition to mark the biggest moment of her young career to date.

Reekie meanwhile, bounced back from fifth place in the 2023 World Athletics outdoor Championships in Budapest with a brilliant first major senior medal with the women’s 800m silver, courtesy of a 2:02.72 run behind Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma.

The British women’s 4x400m relay quartet also impressed, speeding to a national record en route to capturing the bronze medal behind the Dutch and USA squads.

Laviai Nielsen (Tony Lester: Enfield & Haringey), Lina Nielsen (Tony Lester; Shaftesbury Barnet), Ama Pipi (Linford Christie; Enfield & Haringey) and Jessie Knight (Marina Armstrong: Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) combined brilliantly to clock 3:26.36 – their second British best time of the Championships, following 3:24.40 in the heats.

Elsewhere, in the women’s 1500m, Georgia Bell (Trevor Painter: Belgrave) finished an agonising fourth in 4:03.47 – though, the British break-out performer of the year went onto claim European outdoor silver and Olympic bronze later in the summer.

Before relay final duty, Laviai Nielsen finished fourth in the women’s 400m final with a swift 50.89 personal best behind Dutchwoman, Femke Bol’s 49.17 world record, whilst Scotland’s double world indoor medalist, Laura Muir (Steve Vernon: Dundee Hawkhill) battled to fifth place in the women’s 3,000m final with 8:29.76.

In the women’s high jump, Morgan Lake (Robbie Grabarz: Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) followed up her fourth-place finish in Budapest with sixth, following a 1.92m season’s best.