The 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles returns to the high -level competition for the first time since the Paris Games at the Grand Prix in New Balance Room, live Sunday at 4 p.m. He de Boston on NBC and Peacock.
The full start lists are there.
Lyles faces the Olympic champion of Tokyo 100m Marcell Jacobs of Italy in the 60m in the first head between two Olympic Menmpic Champions of the 100m since the 2017 World Championships (the latest Usain Bolt race against Justin Gatlin).
In the 60m, which is only run inside, Lyles is the 2024 world silver medalist with a personal record of 6.43 seconds. Jacobs is the 2022 global gold medalist with a 6.41 bp, seven shy hundredths of the world record.
The 60m male field in New Balance also includes the medalists of the world championships American Trayvon Bromell and Brit Zharnel Hughes.
The New Balance meeting also includes the Olympic gold medalists Grant Holloway (60m hedges, as well as the silver medalist in the world in 2022, Trey Cunningham), Masai Russell (60m hedges), Julien Alfred (300m), Rai Benjamin (300m ) and Quincy Wilson (400m).
After New Balance, the indoor athletics season continues with Millrose Games on February 8 (also on NBC and Peacock), as well as the US athletics room championships on February 22-23 (also on NBC and Peacock in February.
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