Olympic medallists Hull and Bell to race in Boston and New York

Olympic medallists Jess Hull and Georgia Bell will clash in two World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings within one week when they race the 3000m in Boston and then the mile in New York in February.

Australia’s Hull secured 1500m silver at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, while Great Britain’s Bell bagged bronze. Those medals were claimed in a season that also saw Hull set a world 2000m record and multiple Oceanian records, and Bell break the British 1500m record and become a European silver medallist.

First they will meet in the 3000m at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on 2 February, the discipline in which Hull finished fourth at last year’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where Bell claimed the same place finish in the 1500m final. Hull won last year's 3000m in Boston in 8:24.93.

Then they will race in the Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile in New York on 8 February, where their rivals will include Nikki Hiltz and Elise Cranny. In Boston the pair will join the already announced Parker Valby in the 3000m.

The men’s 60m in Boston will feature the past two Olympic 100m champions, with Italy’s Marcell Jacobs added to a field that already features USA’s Noah Lyles.

Jacobs is the 2022 world indoor 60m champion, while Lyles secured 60m silver at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow last year.

Another Olympic champion in action in Boston is USA’s Rai Benjamin, the Olympic 400m hurdles gold medallist, who will return to indoor competition this season for the first time since 2021. He takes on the 300m, with his Olympic 4x400m gold medal-winning teammate Vernon Norwood among his rivals.

Double Olympic medallist Grant Fisher, who got 5000m and 10,000m bronze in Paris, will line up alongside the already announced 2022 world champion Jake Wightman in the 1500m.

Charlton set for Torun

World record-holder Devynne Charlton and Ackera Nugent will be among those going for 60m hurdles glory in New York and they have both also been announced for the ORLEN Copernicus Cup, this season’s penultimate World Indoor Tour Gold meeting, in Torun on 16 February.

Joining world indoor champion Charlton and Jamaican 100m hurdles champion Nugent in Poland will be home star Pia Skrzyszowska, Nadine Visser, Ditaji Kambundji and Alaysha Johnson.