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World Indoor Athletics 2010: USA select well-balanced team for Doha

Published: 9:43AM GMT 05 Mar 2010

World Indoor Athletics 2010: USA name In the running: Lolo Jones will spearhead USA patrol in Doha Photo: AP

The eventuality will be hold in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Mar 12-14 with Cantwell competing in the shot put, Clay the heptathlon and Jones in the women"s 60 metres hurdles.

"I don"t wish to get held up in award counts, that"s not the approach I do things," Andrew Valmon, USA"s head coach, said.

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"But I will contend we have a really plain team, a well-balanced team, a good organisation of determined veterans and immature talents."

World outside champions Trey Hardee (decathlon) and Brittney Reese (women"s prolonged jump) are additionally on the organisation along with former indoor winners Terrence Trammell (60 metres hurdles), Bernard Lagat (3,000 metres) and Walter Davis (triple jump).

Cantwell, Trammell, Reese and organisation friends Ivory Williams (60 metres) and Debbie Dunn (women"s 400 metres) have the year"s most appropriate outlines in their events.

One to watch

Carmelita Jeter, 60 metres A late developer, Jeter dramatically softened her speed over 100metres in 2009, to the point where usually Florence Griffith-Joyner has run faster. Her new 60-metre time of 7.06 at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham was a personal best, and most hold that Irina Privalovas 17-year-old universe jot down of 6.92 could come underneath hazard in Doha.

US organisation in full

Men

60m: Ivory Williams (Liberty, Mo.), Michael Rodgers (Round Rock, Texas)

400m: Bershawn Jackson (Raleigh, N.C.), Jamaal Torrance (Raleigh, N.C.)

800m: Nick Symmonds (Eugene, Ore.), Duane Solomon (Los Angeles, Calif.)

1500m: Will Leer (Eugene, Ore.), Garrett Heath (Palo Alto, Calif.)

3000m: Bernard Lagat (Tucson, Ariz.), Galen Rupp (Portland, Ore.)

60mH: Terrence Trammell (Atlanta, Ga.), David Oliver (Kissimmee, Fla.)

Long jump: Jeff Henderson (North Little Rock, Ark.), Randall Flimmons (Atlanta, Ga.)

Triple jump: Brandon Roulhac (Tallahassee, Fla.), Walter Davis (Baton Rouge, La.)

High jump: Jesse Williams (Eugene, Ore.), Dusty Jonas (Lincoln, Neb.)

Pole vault: Tim Mack (Cleveland, Ohio), Derek Miles (Tea, S.D.)

Shot put: Christian Cantwell (Columbia, Mo.), Cory Martin (Bloomington, Ind.)

Heptathlon: Trey Hardee (Austin, Texas), Bryan Clay (Glendora, Calif.)

4x400m relay: Greg Nixon (Lubbock, Texas), Tavaris Tate (Starkville, Miss.), Kerron Clement (Los Angeles, Calif.), LeJerald Betters (Waco, Texas)

Women

60m: Carmelita Jeter (Los Angeles, Calif.), Miki Barber (Los Angeles, Calif.)

400m: Debbie Dunn (Raleigh, N.C.), DeeDee Trotter (Knoxville, Tenn.)

800m: Anna Pierce (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Alysia Johnson (Los Angeles, Calif.)

1500m: Erin Donohue (Haddon Heights, N.J.), Sarah Bowman (Knoxville, Tenn.)

3000m: Sara Hall (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Desiree Davila (Rochester Hills, Mich.)

60mH: Ginnie Powell (Los Angeles, Calif.), Lolo Jones (Baton Rouge, La.)

Long jump: Brittney Reese (Gulfport, Miss.), Brianna Glenn (Chula Vista, Calif.)

Triple jump: Erica McLain (Menlo Park, Calif.)

High jump: Chaunte Howard Lowe (Decatur, Ga.)

Pole vault: Lacy Janson (Sarasota, Fla.), Chelsea Johnson (Altascadero, Calif.)

Shot put: Jillian Camarena (Tucson, Ariz.), Michelle Carter (Ovilla, Texas)

Heptathlon: Hyleas Fountain (Kettering, Ohio)

4x400m relay: Allyson Felix (Los Angeles, Calif.), Natasha Hastings (Columbia, S.C.), Shareese Woods (Charlotte, N.C.), Jessica Cousins (Seneca, S.C.)

Watch entertainment live online to one side at telegraph.co.uk/athleticslive, with movement from the IAAF indoor assembly in Lievin on Mar 5, prior to full live coverage of the World Indoor Athletics Championships on Mar 12, thirteen and 14, in organisation with Aviva.