British Indoor championship medallist Tom Marshall will have the chance to test himself against some of the world’s best in Glasgow this weekend.

Marshall’s 1500m bronze at last weekend’s championships in Birmingham also secured him a place at Sunday’s Muller Indoor Grand Prix which takes place just a week before the world’s best compete in Birmingham for the World Indoor Championships.

In Glasgow Marshall, from Rhayader, can test himself against Kenya’s Bethwel Birgen, the 1500m winner of the IAAF’s 2018 World Indoor Tour, and his countryman and training partner Vincent Kibet, a finalist in the event at the 2016 World Indoor Champs.

Marshall, who was unable to secure himself a place in the British team for the World Indoors, will be hoping for a fast time as he prepares to represent Wales at the Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast in April.

Kibet will be running in the 1500m at the world indoors but though his world tour title has earned Birgen a wildcard entry for the 1500m Kenya has selected him in the 3000m for Birmingham .

Neither of the Kenyans Marshall faces in Glasgow will be competing in the 1500m at the Commonwealths. The east African nation will instead be represented by reigning world outdoor champion Elijah Manangoi, silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot - who beat the world champion at Kenya’s recent trials - and 2016 World Junior champion Kumari Taki.

But Australian Ryan Gregson, who is being tipped by his country’s press as a "genuine Commonwealth medal shot", will be running in Glasgow on Sunday.

Gregson, who won the Australian outdoor trials earlier this month when he came from seventh to first with less than a lap to go in the 1500m, has also been selected to represent his country at the World Indoors.

The 2016 Olympic finalist has said he sees the World Indoors as ideal preparation for the Gold Coast games which will be held on the same track where he won the Australian trials.

"The 1500m at the Commonwealth Games will be cut throat and feature the best 1500m runners in the world," Gregson told SBS News in his homeland.

Marshall will be joined in Glasgow by new Welsh 1500m junior record holder Jake Heyward who set his new best of 3.49.26 when finishing sixth at the British Championships where Marshall took bronze in a season’s best 3.47.52. The Welshmen are both coached by James Thie.

Also confirmed for Sunday’s race is 2015 European Indoor champion Jackub Holusa. The Czech won silver at the 2016 World Indoors and finished fifth at last year’s London World Championships.

Spain’s Kevin Lopez, a European Indoor finalist over 800m, is also in the line up.

There will be live coverage of the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on BBC Two on Sunday, February 25 from 2pm-5.30pm.