Josh Kerr, Ollie Hoare clash at Millrose Games

Scottish Olympic bronze medalist Josh Kerr and Australia Olympian finalist Ollie Hoare will lead the cost for the signature WHOOP Males’s Wanamaker Mile within the 114^th Millrose Video games.

The extremely anticipated signature occasion of the Millrose Video games will happen on January 29^th at The Armory New Stability Monitor & Discipline Middle.

“The WHOOP Wanamaker Mile is among the most famous races in all of observe & area, and this yr’s model guarantees to be one of many nice races ever,” stated Millrose Video games Meet Director Ray Flynn.

Kerr grew to become the second-fastest 1500m runner out of Nice Britain ever along with his medal-winning run in Tokyo. Whereas competing on the College of New Mexico, Kerr was the 2018 NCAA champion within the mile.

“The Wanamaker Mile has all the time been a staple in my indoor season, there isn’t a race prefer it,” stated Kerr. “I’m rested and able to get ‘caught in’ after a profitable Olympics.”

Hoare positioned second within the 2020 Wanamaker Mile and reached the Olympic ultimate in Tokyo this previous summer time. Hoare was the 2018 NCAA 1500m champion whereas on the College of Wisconsin, taking down Kerr within the course of.

“The Wanamaker Mile is among the most prestigious indoor mile races on the earth,” stated Hoare. “To have the ability to go and compete once more for the third time on this occasion is a privilege. [Coach Dathan Ritzenhein] and I are pleased with the place I’m proper now and I’m assured that I can tackle no matter comes at me. Don’t be shocked in the event you see some very quick mile occasions come out of New York.”

5-time Olympian Nick Willis of New Zealand will be part of the combination. The 38-year-old Willis, who within the 1500m received the silver medal in 2008 Beijing Olympics and bronze in 2016 Rio Olympics, shall be making an attempt for a document 20^th consecutive yr for a sub-4 minute mile. On New 12 months’s Day at The Armory New Stability Monitor & Discipline Middle he narrowly missed the document with a 4:00.22. Willis has completed as runner-up on the Wanamaker Mile thrice (2009, 2015, 2016) and was third twice (2008, 2014).

There are proficient People within the area, led by Clayton Murphy, the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist within the 800m. Murphy additionally received the 2021 Olympic Trials and reached the 800m ultimate in Tokyo. He’s no stranger to the mile distance, having positioned third within the 2019 Wanamaker Mile.

Additionally set to compete is the 18-year-old phenom Hobbs Kessler out of Ann Arbor, MI. Kessler first broke the indoor highschool mile document earlier than erasing the out of doors 1500m document of the good Alan Webb. Having just lately turned skilled, Kessler will look to maintain ascending in direction of the highest of the worldwide heap.

Craig Engels, the 2019 US 1500m champion and World Championship finalist, can even function. He shall be joined by a pair of Olympic semifinalists, Andrew Coscoran from Eire, and Charles Philibert-Thiboutot from Canada. Rounding out the sphere shall be Mario Garcia Romo, who positioned third within the NCAA 3000m final March, together with 2016 NCAA mile champion Henry Wynne and the skilled veteran Colby Alexander.

The Millrose Video games is essentially the most storied occasion in indoor observe and area. Keep tuned over the approaching weeks as extra athletes are introduced for the 114^th Millrose Video games. The Millrose Video games is anticipated to be essentially the most thrilling version of the meet up to now, with dozens of Olympians competing on The Armory’s “Quickest Monitor within the World.” 

Athletes confirmed for the 114^th Millrose Video games embody:

• Defending champion Elle Purrier St. Pierre and 2019 champion Konstanze Klosterhalfen will spotlight the WHOOP Ladies’s Wanamaker Mile. This signature race consists of all three athletes who represented the US within the Tokyo Olympic 1500m.
• The highest two shot put athletes and Tokyo Olympic gold and silver medalists, Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs, are entered within the Thorne Males’s Shot Put.
• World document holder within the 60m Christian Coleman, the quickest man on the earth in 2021 Trayvon Bromell, winner of the 200m 2019 World Championships and 200m Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Noah Lyles and Jamaica’s 2016 Olympic gold medal winner within the 110m hurdles Omar McLeod will problem for the Millrose Video games Males’s 60m title.
• Olympic gold medalist and American out of doors document holder Athing Mu, American indoor document holder and Olympian Ajee’ Wilson and Jamaica middle-distance sensation and Olympian Natoya Goule-Toppin who shall be competing within the extremely anticipated Jack and Lewis Rudin Ladies’s 800m.
• Cole Hocker, Edward Cheserek, and Conner Mantz headline a Who’s Who of NCAA champions and Olympian distance runners within the Males’s 3000m.
• World document holder Keni Harrison leads a Ladies’s 60m Hurdles area that options six Olympians.
• Olympic gold medalist Katie Nageotte will face off towards defending champion Sandi Morris within the Ladies’s Pole Vault.

Millrose Video games alumni earned 29 medals on the Tokyo Olympics, together with 13 gold medals. With the highest-level competitors on the youth, highschool, collegiate, membership, {and professional} ranges, there may be actually one thing for everybody on the Millrose Video games.

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