Canada’s most adorned male Olympian, Andre De Grasse, will get an early begin on the 2025 observe and discipline marketing campaign. De Grasse plans to open his season on the Astana Indoor Meet in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 25, competing within the males’s 60-metre occasion within the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Collection assembly of the season.
De Grasse will face a robust discipline, that includes Olympic 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson of Jamaica, who might be making his indoor observe debut. Whereas Thompson has by no means raced indoors, he has a 60-metre better of 6.67 seconds, set in an outside race in 2022. Thompson has a 100m better of 9.77 seconds–the quickest time on the earth final 12 months.
The world’s quickest man in 2024, Kishane Thompson 🇯🇲 is about to make his indoor debut over 60m on Jan. 25 on the WA Indoor Tour Gold in Astana, going up in opposition to Andre de Grasse 🇨🇦.
Twin sisters, Tia & Tina 🇯🇲 Clayton, will run the ladies’s equal, joined by Natasha Morrison. pic.twitter.com/DNNOkGN0Mt
— Monitor & Area Gazette (@TrackGazette) January 9, 2025
The seven-time Olympic medallist from Markham, Ont., opened his season on the identical meet final 12 months, the place he completed sixth, in 6.66 seconds. De Grasse’s private finest within the short-sprint occasion is 6.60 seconds, set throughout his ultimate 12 months on the College of Southern California (USC) earlier than he turned professional forward of the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Many sprinters use the 60 metres as a pre-season occasion for the out of doors season. The occasion is often used to develop a sprinter’s begin out of the blocks and explosive energy within the first 30 metres. With the 2025 World Indoor Championships taking place in two months in Nanjing, China, the Canadian might be focusing on the boys’s 60m entry customary of 6.55 seconds.
De Grasse’s final race was the boys’s 4x100m relay Olympic ultimate on Aug. 9, when he anchored Group Canada to gold, the nation’s first gold medal within the occasion in 28 years. Like De Grasse, Thompson additionally hasn’t raced since Paris, making this showdown one to sit up for.