Grant Holloway wins the 60m hurdles in Lievin (© Dan Vernon)
World champions Grant Holloway, Gudaf Tsegay and Katie Moon will return to the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais Trophée EDF in Lievin for the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting on 13 February.
All three are no stranger to the Arena Stade Couvert. Holloway has won the men’s 60m hurdles in Lievin for the past four years. The Olympic champion clocked a meeting record, and then PB, of 7.32 when winning there in 2021. After further victories in 2022 and 2023, he equalled the meeting record last year, then went on to improve his world indoor record with 7.27 in his very next race.
On the same day Holloway made his Lievin debut back in 2021, Tsegay broke the world indoor 1500m record. The Ethiopian powered to a 3:53.09 victory, which remains the world indoor record. Like Holloway, Tsegay has notched up three further victories in Lievin since then, winning the mile in 2022, the 1500m in 2023 and the 3000m in 2024.
This time, the two-time world champion will contest the 3000m and will once again take aim at the world indoor record of 8:16.60, having come close to it on two occasions, running 8:16.69 in Birmingham in 2023 and 8;17.11 in Lievin last year.
US pole vaulter Moon will be making her fourth appearance in Lievin. The two-time world champion last competed there in 2023, winning with a vault of 4.83m.
European 400m champion Natalia Bukowiecka is another past winner set to return to Lievin. She set a Polish indoor record of 50.90 when winning in Lievin in 2023, then went on to reduce it to 50.83. Since then, she has added the outdoor Polish record to her collection, clocking 48.90 last year before going on to earn Olympic bronze in Paris.
