Genzebe Dibaba broke the world record in Karlsruhe in 2014 ©Getty Images

Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba will return to the meet where she broke the world 1,500 metres indoor record four years ago when the International Association of Athletics Federations Indoor Tour begins in Karlsruhe tomorrow.

Action will take place over a single day at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Center in the German city.

It marks the first of six meetings over the next 22 days.

Dibaba clocked 3min 55.17sec over the 1,500m distance in 2014 and nobody other than her has come within two seconds of this time since.

Kenya's Winny Chebet and Poland's reigning European outdoor champion Angelika Cichocka will be among her rivals this time around.

Yomif Kejelcha won the world indoor 3,000m title last year ©Getty Images
Yomif Kejelcha won the world indoor 3,000m title last year ©Getty Images

Ethiopia's reigning world indoor 3,000m champion Yomif Kejelcha will lock horns with compatriot Hagos Gebrhiwet, the Olympic 5,000m bronze medallist, over seven-and-a-half-laps in another likely track highlight.

Olympic champion Thiago Braz da Silva of Brazil will take on France's world record holder Renaud Lavillenie in the pole vault in the most eagerly anticipated field duel.

Other IAAF Indoor legs legs are scheduled for Düsseldorf, Madrid, Boston and Torun before the series' conclusion in Glasgow on February 25.

It is building up to the IAAF World Indoor Championships between March 2 and 4 in Birmingham.