Lalang a Business Administration student at Rend Lake College in Illinois will be seeking to improve on his performance and pick gold in 1,500m.

Timothy Kitum runner up at the Meeting Pas de Calais, an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting in Liévin, France, pushing the winner Adam Kszczot's to a Polish national 800m record of 1:44.57 and one of five world-leading marks set in the city.

World and Commonwealth Games 5,000m silver medalist is in the 3000m and World Athletics Championships finalist Hellen Obiri will run in the 1,500m.

Commonwealth 1,500m champion Silas Kiplagat who is the tenth fastest of all-time over the distance will beef up the team in his speciality patnered by Bethwel Birgen a sub four  minute miler the Administration Police (AP) national champion Bethwel Birgen.

Birgen, set a year's best of 3:34.65 to repeat last year's success in the 1 500 at the Karlsruhe indoor meet February 12 in Germany.

Augustine Kiprono Choge and Edwin Soi, who both finished the men's 3 000 in a world leading 7:29.94 at the Karlsruhe indoor meet will pair in Istanbul.

Choge who is the 4x1,500m record holder ran the fastest qualifying time in the 3000 m at the 2010 World Indoor Championships, but failed to repeat his form in the final and finished in eleventh place.

Soi is the 2008 bronze medalist, despite being the fastest qualifier for the final, he slipped behind the leaders and finished in fourth place at the World Indoor held in Luis
Puig Palace in Valencia, Spain.