By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA National record holder Kristina Knott has secured a spot in the World Athletics Indoor Championships set in Nanjing, China next week, the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association announced on Saturday, March 15. The 29-year-old Knott will be competing in the women’s 60 meters where she holds the PH record of 7.26 seconds she established at the American Track League in United States in 2021. With the development, the Fil-American will be the country’s lone representative in the elite tournament that serves as the finale of the indoor season of the sport. World No. 4 pole vaulter EJ Obiena failed to hit the qualifying standard and will be missing the event – the gathering of who’s who in the world. Knott, who also competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, is scheduled to race in the morning heats of March 22. Should she qualify to the next round, semifinals and finals are scheduled later that night. So far, Knott has a season-best time of 7.32sec she set at the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque, United States last February. Her recent races were focused on the 60m despite also competing in the 100m and 200m in the past. She last qualified and competed in the world indoors last 2022 held in Belgrade, Serbia where she finished eighth in the heats in the 60m.