Anna Hall (© Getty Images)
World champions Anna Hall and Cordell Tinch are among the latest athletes confirmed to compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, this season’s opening World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, in Boston on 24 January.
Aiming for his first win at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, Tinch headlines the men’s 60m hurdles. Tinch is coming off a fantastic 2025 season that saw him earn wins at Wanda Diamond League meetings in Silesia, Lausanne and Zurich and, most importantly, in the final of the 110m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. He finished the year as the clear world No.1, having run three of the five sub-13.00 performances recorded in 2025, including a 12.87 personal best, making him the equal fourth-fastest man in history.
Paring down her day’s work to just two events, world heptathlon champion Hall will make her New Balance Indoor Grand Prix debut, competing in both the long jump and 400m. Hall has been among the world’s best combined events athletes for several years, having won bronze and silver medals in the heptathlon at the 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships, respectively, and holding a personal best that ranks her second on the all-time list behind world record-holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee. In the long jump, Hall will find stiff competition in the form of Olympic bronze medallist Jasmine Moore and world indoor champion Claire Bryant.
In an exciting middle-distance clash, 2019 world 800m champion Donavan Brazier and 2024 world indoor 800m champion Bryce Hoppel will race over 600m. Challenging them will be Irish record-holder Cian McPhillips and Spain’s Mohamed Attaoui, the fifth-place finisher over 800m at both the Olympic Games and World Championships.
Returning to Boston in pursuit of another win, Josh Hoey will lead the field in the men’s 800m. Last year, Hoey became the second-fastest man ever at both the 800m and 1000m indoors, and he then won 800m gold at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing. The 26-year-old ended his year by clocking 1:12.84 for 600m at Boston University, taking almost a second off the previous world best.
“Boston is one of the most special cities in the world for indoor track and is home to a deeply rooted community built over many years with a fierce culture for chasing excellence,” said Hoey. “It means a lot to me to be part of it.”
Australia’s Jessica Hull, the Olympic silver medallist and world bronze medallist at 1500m, will join the previously announced Elle St. Pierre in the women’s 3000m. In the men’s 3000m, Graham Blanks will take on Andrew Coscoran.
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