It’s onerous to select a spotlight as lots of the world’s high athletes descend on Boston for the New Steadiness Indoor Grand Prix on Saturday (February 4).
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Shericka Jackson, the reigning world champions within the 400m hurdles and 200m respectively, sq. off over 60m. However look out too for Aleia Hobbs, who ran a world lead of 6.98 in Fayetteville final weekend, plus world indoor silver medallist Mikiah Brisco.
The lads’s 60m is equally stacked with world 200m champion Noah Lyles versus world indoor silver medallist Marvin Bracy-Williams and 2016 world indoor champion Trayvon Bromell.
Femke Bol competes for the primary time within the assembly because the Dutch athlete, who received European titles within the 400m hurdles, 400m and 4x400m final summer time, tackles the 500m. The world report by the way is 66.31 held by Olesya Krasnomovets-Forsheva of Russia from 2006 as Bol faces Lisanne De Witte, Kendall Ellis and Janieve Russell in Boston.
Grant Holloway and Trey Cunningham, the World Championships gold and silver medallists within the 110m hurdles final yr, go face to face within the 60m hurdles. Holloway can also be the world indoor record-holder and world indoor champion.
Laura Muir and Ciara Mageean, the one-two within the European and Commonwealth 1500m finals final summer time, compete over 3000m in Boston.
Recent from his US indoor 5000m report of 12:51.61 on the Boston College monitor a couple of days in the past, Woody Kincaid has entered the 3000m.
Within the area Katie Moon (née Nageotte) and Katerina Stefanidi – the 2 most up-to-date Olympic champions within the ladies’s pole vault – lead the road up.
Mariano García of Spain and Bryce Hoppel of the US – the world indoor 800m gold and bronze medallists from 2022 – will face one another once more. In addition they raced one another at this occasion 12 months in the past with García profitable in a Spanish report of 1:45.12.
Native Boston athlete Gabby Thomas faces Jenna Prandini amongst others within the ladies’s 300m.
World 1500m champion Jake Wightman has withdrawn after injuring his foot throughout a plyometrics session in South Africa however there are nonetheless loads of Brits in motion.
Becoming a member of Muir within the 3000m, for instance, are Izzy Fry, Hannah Nuttall, Adelle Tracey and Holly Archer.
Ellie Baker, Lynsey Sharp and Issy Boffey go in a ladies’s 800m line up led by American Ajee’ Wilson.
Neil Gourley, Charlie Grice and Tom Eager characteristic within the males’s mile, whereas Osian Perrin and James West are within the males’s 3000m.
Different Brits embrace Cindy Sember within the 60m hurdles, Alex Haydock-Wilson within the 400m, Jemma Reekie within the mile, Dan Rowden and Kyle Langford within the 800m,
After quickly relocating to Staten Island as a result of Covid, the New Steadiness Indoor Grand Prix will make its debut at its new residence, “the TRACK at new steadiness”, a brand new indoor facility on the shoe firm’s world headquarters.
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