The adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games is a singular occasion in North America. Born out of the Adidas Boston Metropolis Video games, the Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games provides followers, younger and previous, an opportunity to see Adidas elite athletes and among the prime highschool athletes within the nation.
Olympic Champions Lyles, Holloway Lead 2025 Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games’ Return to Piedmont Park
Expanded Occasion Brings a Full Day of Monitor & Discipline for All Ages
ATLANTA – March 27, 2025 – Two Olympic gold medalists from the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games and America’s most excellent feminine athlete are returning to Atlanta. Noah Lyles, Grant Holloway, and Anna Corridor will headline the 2025 Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games on Saturday, Could 17, because the occasion returns on a custom-built elevated observe in Piedmont Park, Atlanta Monitor Membership introduced right this moment.
Designed as a jam-packed, all-day observe and discipline pageant, the Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games invitations followers to expertise the game up shut, with a devoted fan zone, meet-and-greets with elite athletes, unique Adidas gear at Atlanta Monitor Membership’s merchandise tents, and pageant environment that includes meals vehicles. North America’s solely road meet, the Metropolis Video games, will deliver the game’s greatest stars out of the stadium and into the center of the ATL with free, open-to-the-public spectating alternatives.
Road Meet in Piedmont Park
Could 18, 2024, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, photograph by Kevin Morris
Lyles, the reigning 100m Olympic Champion, the 200m American record-holder, and four-time World Champion at 100m and 200m, welcomes the highlight of being referred to as the world’s quickest man. He’ll race the 150m. Grant Holloway, himself an Olympic Champion and six-time World Champion indoors and out, has not misplaced an indoor race within the 60m hurdles since 2015. He’ll compete within the 110m hurdles. Anna Corridor, the 2023 World Championship Silver Medalist within the Heptathlon, will compete within the 100m hurdles and the lengthy leap.
The day’s festivities begin with the Youth Mile & Sprint. This free youth occasion is open to the general public. Additionally, it serves because the season finale for Kilometer Children, Atlanta Monitor Membership’s free youth working program serving hundreds of children within the better Atlanta space.
On the identical time, Georgia’s prime highschool sprinters, jumpers, and throwers will compete for the meet of champions-style titles. Monitor occasions will happen at Midtown Excessive Faculty, whereas the lengthy leap and pole vault occasions might be in Piedmont Park. The dash finals of the 100m, 200m, 100m hurdles, and 110m hurdles might be held on the elevated observe within the meadow in Piedmont Park. Athletes robotically qualify by attaining the time customary or successful a state title the week earlier than on the GHSA State Championships.
Then, at 3:00 p.m., the highlight shifts solely because the Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games welcomes Olympic and World Champions to the elevated observe for an electrical afternoon of competitors. Athletes will compete head-to-head in sprints, hurdles, and discipline occasions.
Following the skilled occasions, aggressive center faculty age-group 100m races will happen on the elevated observe straightaway.
The night will culminate with Georgia’s prime highschool distance runners competing below the lights again at Midtown Excessive Faculty within the 800m, 3200m, and Mile to complete off the meet of champions-styled competitors.
“The Adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games isn’t simply one other observe meet—it’s the place the world’s greatest and the game’s rising stars share the identical stage,” mentioned Wealthy Kenah, CEO of Atlanta Monitor Membership, which produces the occasion alongside International Athletics & Advertising, Inc. “One minute, you’re watching the way forward for observe and discipline show themselves. The subsequent, you’re seeing Olympic champions go head-to-head at full pace. That makes this occasion completely different—and why Atlanta is the right place.”
Please go to this Atlanta Monitor Membership webpage for extra info on every occasion and an in depth schedule.
Photographs by Kevin Morris
About Atlanta Monitor Membership
Atlanta Monitor Membership is a nonprofit dedicated to creating an lively and wholesome Atlanta. Via working and strolling, Atlanta Monitor Membership motivates, evokes, and engages the group to take pleasure in a more healthy way of life.
With greater than 38,000 members, Atlanta Monitor Membership is the second-largest working group in america. Along with the AJC Peachtree Street Race, probably the most important 10K working occasion on the planet, Atlanta Monitor Membership directs greater than 50 occasions every year, together with the Publix Atlanta Marathon, PNC Atlanta 10 Miler, Invesco QQQ Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon and the AJC Polar Reverse Peachtree Street Race. Via the help of its members and volunteers, Atlanta Monitor Membership additionally maintains a number of group initiatives, together with organizing and selling the Kilometer Children youth working program to metro Atlanta youth, honoring highschool cross nation and observe and discipline athletes by means of Atlanta Monitor Membership’s All-Metro Banquets and supporting the Grady Bicycle EMT program. For extra info on Atlanta Monitor Membership, go to atlantatrackclub.org.
About International Athletics & Advertising, Inc.
Since its founding in 1993, International Athletics & Advertising, Inc., has grown into one of many world’s premier athlete illustration and event-production companies. Over 50 GA&M shoppers have gained over 150 Olympic or World Championship medals in 25 disciplines. GA&M has additionally produced over 60 elite-level televised athletics competitions that includes lots of of Olympic and World Championship medalists.