Noah Lyles in action in Boston (© Getty Images)
Noah Lyles will make his sixth appearance at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, while Jake Wightman will continue his comeback at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Boston on 4 February.
USA’s multiple world champion Lyles opened his 2023 campaign with a PB of 6.51 to win the 60m in Boston and never looked back, winning the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest and becoming the first man in seven years to complete the sprint treble at a global championships.
Those titles add to the world gold medals he won in the 200m in 2022 and the 200m and 4x100m in 2019, as well as the Olympic bronze medal he claimed in 2021. The equal fastest man in the world this year at 100m, Lyles is also, for the sixth straight year, the fastest man in the world at 200m.
Leading the women’s sprints in Boston will be world 200m silver medallist Gabby Thomas.
Thomas won the 2023 US title in a lifetime best of 21.60, making her the fourth-fastest woman in history. In addition to her 200m silver, she also formed part of USA’s gold medal-winning 4x100m team in Budapest, and she also owns 200m bronze and 4x100m silver medals from the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Making his debut at the TRACK at New Balance will be Britain’s 2022 world 1500m champion Wightman. Having missed the 2023 season due to injury, the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix will be Wightman’s first major race in almost 13 months.
More than 50 meetings feature on the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Tour calendar, including seven Gold level events. The first of those Gold meetings is in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 27 January – the first ever World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Asia.
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