Lyles, Alfred and Holloway confirmed for Indoor meeting in Boston
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Now in its 30th year, the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix has played host to nine world records and 16 American records
Olympic champions Noah Lyles, Julien Alfred and Grant Holloway are set to headline the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting – in Boston on 2 February 2025.
Lyles is returning to defend his crown, having achieved his third consecutive victory in Boston last year in a PB of 6.44.
OLYMPIC YEAR 😤@LylesNoah storms to 6.44 to win the men's 60m in Boston.#WorldIndoorTour
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He went on to reduce his PB to 6.43, then earned 60m silver at the World Indoor Championships. The peak of his outdoor season, meanwhile, was his 9.79 triumph over 100m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Two-time world indoor champion Holloway will also be vying for a fourth consecutive win in Boston.
The world and Olympic 110m hurdles champion owns eight of the nine fastest times ever recorded in the 60m hurdles, topped by his world indoor record of 7.27 set earlier this year.
Over the past six years in the 110m hurdles, he has gone sub-13 on twelve separate occasions – more than any other athlete in history – while his outdoor lifetime best of 12.81 makes him the second-fastest man in history.
Olympic 100m champion Alfred will be making her New Balance Indoor Grand Prix debut.
Before winning the Olympic 100m title in Paris, the sprinter from St Lucia also struck gold over 60m at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow earlier this year.
Elsewhere, Britain’s 2022 world champion Jake Wightman leads the men’s 1500m field, while six-time NCAA champion Parker Valby will make her professional racing debut in the women’s 3000m.
In 2022, Wightman became the first British man since 1983 to win gold at the World Athletics Championships over 1500m, with a thrilling win in a personal best of 3:29.23.
That same year, Wightman won the silver medal over 800m at the European Championships and took home the bronze medal in the 1500m for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
On the other hand, Valby last summer finished second in the 10,000m at the US Olympic Trials, qualifying her for her first Olympic Games, where she finished eleventh in the 10,000m.
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