Anticipation is constructing for the 116th Millrose Video games, as this iconic occasion is now simply 26 days away. As at all times, the day will conclude in type with the operating of the legendary NYRR Wanamaker Miles, a convention with over 100 years of historical past. The ladies’s race guarantees to be a thriller, as Laura Muir and Elle Purrier St. Pierre, the earlier two occasion champions, are each set to toe the road.
The 116th Millrose Video games will happen on the Nike Observe & Area Middle at The Armory on Sunday, February eleventh.
Muir is the reigning Olympic silver medalist within the 1500m, and he or she added a bronze medal on the World Championships in 2022. She can be a Commonwealth Video games champion and a seven-time European champion indoors and outside, and he or she holds seven nationwide information for Nice Britain. Muir set the occasion file on the prestigious fifth Avenue Mile, and he or she adopted that efficiency with a victory on the 2023 Millrose Video games, operating 4:20.15 to win her debut Wanamaker Mile.
Purrier St. Pierre introduced herself as probably the greatest middle-distance runners on the earth again in 2020, operating a surprising time of 4:16.85 within the Wanamaker Mile to set the meet and American file. That mark stays the third-fastest indoor mile in world historical past. She efficiently defended her Millrose title in 2021 earlier than additionally reaching the 1500m Olympic remaining and taking the 3000m silver medal on the World Indoor Championships. The 2024 indoor season marks Purrier St. Pierre’s return to the monitor after the delivery of her first youngster.
Additionally figuring to problem for the win is Ethiopia’s Axumawit Embaye, a two-time World Indoor Championships silver medalist in 2014 and 2022. With each a sub-four minute 1500m and a sub-4:20 mile on her resume as nicely, Embaye will look to problem the 2 previous champions.
“We’re so delighted to have this stage of competitors in the course of the NYRR Wanamaker Miles once more this 12 months,” remarked Armory Basis Co-President Rita Finkel. “It’s spectacular to have our two previous champions again to contest this vital race.”
The NYRR Wanamaker Mile discipline is loaded with different elite athletes keen for his or her shot at prime honors.
-Sinclaire Johnson is the 2022 US 1500m champion and a World Championship finalist.
-Katie Snowden is the 2023 British 1500m champion, and he or she is second on the all-time British 1500m record behind Muir.
-Josette Andrews was the runner-up within the 2023 Wanamaker Mile.
-Jessica Hull holds six nationwide information for Australia, together with the mile indoors and outside.
-Marta Pérez positioned ninth within the 1500m on the Tokyo Olympics, representing Spain.
-Dani Jones was a three-time NCAA champion for the College of Colorado.
-Sage Hurta-Klecker was a two-time NCAA champion, and he or she is now considered one of America’s quickest 800m runners.
-Susan Ejore of Kenya was a two-time NCAA champion on the DMR whereas on the College of Oregon.
The winner of the mile on the Dr. Sander Invitational on Saturday, January twenty seventh, may also be added to this stellar discipline.
Keep tuned over the approaching weeks earlier than the 116th Millrose Video games because the world-class begin lists are finalized. Prime athletes already confirmed to compete embody Yared Nuguse, Alicia Monson, Grant Fisher, Danielle Williams, Josh Kerr, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Christian Coleman, Keni Harrison, Andre De Grasse, Nia Ali, Chris Nilsen, and KC Lightfoot, with much more Olympians and World Championship medalists nonetheless to come back.
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2023-02-11, photograph by Kevin Morris
As at all times, the Millrose Video games will function the very best athletes within the sport, together with dozens of Olympians and world champions. The Millrose Video games is a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meet. With the highest-level competitors on the youth, highschool, collegiate, membership, {and professional} ranges, there may be really one thing for everybody on the Millrose Video games.
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