The USA Observe & Discipline group attending the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, has 56 athletes, with ten medalists from the World Indoors in 2024. The group is spectacular, contemplating how lengthy the season is that this yr and what number of veterans determined they’d not compete indoors in 2025.
The World Indoor Champs in Nanjing, China, have been to be held in 2020, however because of COVID-19, they have been postponed. They have been additionally postponed a second time, and now the LOC, native media, and excellent facility are able to host a World Indoors. RunBlogRun shall be masking it remotely, primarily because of bills. With Tokyo coming within the fall and the latest European Indoor Champs, we’re watching our budgets in anticipation of the very lengthy season!
We will watch every session by way of Peacock and NBC and look ahead to the schedule.
How will the U.S. group do? Numerous expertise and need, and that, expensive readers, are two of the keys to success!
INDIANAPOLIS — USA Observe & Discipline Friday introduced a roster of 56 athletes for the World Athletics Indoor Championships to be held March 21-23 in Nanjing, China. These Championships have been initially scheduled for Nanjing in 2020 however have been postponed because of COVID-19.
Ten medalists from final yr’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, return, led by males’s 60 hurdles gold medalist and world indoor report holder Grant Holloway. Holloway, who has been undefeated within the occasion since 2015, has a 76-race win streak, together with heats and finals.
Girls’s lengthy bounce silver medalist Monae’ Nichols received the USATF Indoor Championships title at Staten Island in February. It’s going to look to step up on the rostrum in Nanjing, as will Sam Kendricks within the males’s pole vault. Kendricks, the world out of doors champion in 2017 and 2019, has three silvers from previous World Indoor Championships, taking the runner-up slot in 2016, 2018, and final yr.
Staten Island, New York, United States, picture by Kevin R. Morris
Alexis Holmes and Chase Jackson are the opposite particular person medalists making a return journey. Holmes, the USATF champion final month, received bronze within the girls’s 400 at Glasgow and silver within the 4×400 relay. Jackson bettered the American indoor report in Poland in February, earned bronze at Glasgow, and took prime honors at this yr’s USATF Indoor Championships.
Along with Holmes, relay medalists Chris Bailey, Quanera Hayes, Bailey Lear, Jacory Patterson, and Matthew Boling are slated for obligation in China. Bailey is the quickest 400 man on the planet this yr with a better of 44.70 and can run the open 400 alongside Patterson. Hayes, Lear, and Boling are within the relay swimming pools, with each groups looking for to enhance the silver medals earned in Glasgow.
Staten Island, New York, United States, picture by Kevin R. Morris
Crew USATF may have three entrants within the males’s 60 and 400, and the ladies’s shot put and 60 hurdles by the byes given to winners of the World Indoor Tour. Brian Faust received the lads’s 400 total title on this yr’s Tour, Jackson received the shot put, whereas Ronnie Baker and Christina Clemons shall be holdovers beginning in 2020. The winners of total Tour titles in 2019 and 2020 got byes this yr since they misplaced their alternative with the COVID-related postponement in 2020.
ROSTERS
WOMEN
60: Celera Barnes, Mikiah Brisco
400: Alexis Holmes, Rosey Effiong
800: Nia Akins, Valery Tobias
1500: Sinclaire Johnson, Heather MacLean
Observe & Discipline meet
February 2, 2025
Boston, MA USA, picture by Kevin R. Morris
3000: Shelby Houlihan, Whittni Morgan
60H: Christina Clemons, Grace Stark, Amber Hughes
HJ: Vashti Cunningham, Charity Hufnagel
PV: Gabriela Leon, Emily Grove
LJ: Monae’ Nichols, Claire Bryant
SP: Chase Jackson, Maggie Ewen, Jessica Ramsey
Pent: Taliyah Brooks, Tamara Chapman
Relay Pool: Quanera Hayes, Bailey Lear, Karimah Davis, Maya Singletary
MEN
60: Ronnie Baker, Coby Hilton, Emmanuel Wells
Staten Island, New York, United States, picture by Kevin R. Morris
400: Chris Bailey, Jacory Patterson, Brian Faust
800: Josh Hoey, Brandon Miller
Eugene, Oregon, USA
June 21-30, 2024, picture by Kevin Morris
1500: Sam Prakel, Luke Houser
Albuquerque, New Mexico 2023-02-17
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3000: Dylan Jacobs, Sam Gilman
60H: Grant Holloway, Cameron Murray
HJ: Eli Kosiba
PV: Sam Kendricks
LJ: Will Williams, Cameron Crump
TJ: Russell Robinson, Will Claye
SP: Tripp Piperi, Roger Steen
Hept: Harrison Williams, Heath Baldwin
Relay Pool: Elija Godwin, Matthew Boling, Jevon O’Bryant, Kennedy Lightner
STAFF
Girls’s Workers
April Smith: Head Coach, Throws
Sandra Farmer-Patrick: Sprints/Hurdles
Lisa Morgan-Richman: Distance
Jennifer Potter: Jumps/Multis
Marsha Seagrave: Head Supervisor
Males’s Workers
Maurice Pierce: Head Coach, Sprints/Hurdles
Travis Coleman: Throws
Dena Evans: Distance
Lindsey Malone: Jumps/Multis
Nick Polk: Head Supervisor
Mixed Workers
Martin Palavicini: Occasion Supervisor
Radious Guess: Occasion Supervisor
Darryl Woodson: Relay Coach
Medical Workers
Todd Arnold: MD
Christie-Lee Coad: Head ATC
Kiki Cruickshank: USATF RMP
Brittany Garcia: USATF RMP
Melissa Stueve: ATC
Deep Patel: PA/ATC
Ben Baumgardner: DC
Breigh Jones-Coplin: Sports activities Psych
Rikki Eager: Sports activities Dietician