It has been three years since Canada’s Andre De Grasse final competed throughout an indoor observe season. Later that 12 months, he gained his first Olympic gold medal within the males’s 200m. With the Paris Olympics lower than eight months away, De Grasse plans to open his 2024 season on the finish of January on the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold assembly of 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
De Grasse will headline the lads’s 60 metres on Jan. 27–an occasion he has solely raced twice since 2016. His private finest within the occasion is 6.60 seconds, set throughout his ultimate 12 months on the College of Southern California (USC) earlier than he turned professional forward of the Rio Olympics.
Many sprinters will use the 60m as a pre-season occasion for the outside season. The occasion is often used to develop a sprinter’s begin out of the blocks and explosive energy within the first 30 metres.
Andre De Grasse is making his return to the 60m!
He’ll be lining up on the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes on January twenty seventh 🔥
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De Grasse ended his 2023 season along with his finest efficiency within the 200m for the reason that Tokyo Olympics. De Grasse ran a season’s finest 19.76 seconds to win the Diamond League Closing in Eugene, Ore. This was the fourth-fastest 200m time of his profession.
The 29-year-old sprinter from Markham, Ont., will once more be one of many Canadian favourites to win gold in Paris. He has medalled in each Olympic occasion he’s ever competed in, accumulating three bronze medals, two silvers and one gold over two Olympic video games. If he can defend his title in Paris, he’ll change into the primary Canadian sprinter to win back-to-back Olympic titles.
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De Grasse was introduced as a headliner for the Astana Indoor Meet together with Mondo Duplantis, the world champion and world record-holder within the pole vault, and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, the world 5,000m record-holder.
In line with World Athletics, there are a complete of 60 conferences at the moment featured on the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Tour calendar, together with seven Gold-level occasions. The primary of these Gold conferences is in Astana, which would be the first-ever World Indoor Tour Gold assembly in Asia.
