Pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis, two-time indoor 60m hurdles world champion Nia Ali, mile world champion Diribe Weltej, Olympic 200m champion Andre de Grasse, and others. One of the world gold medalists will start the season at the Astana Indoor Championships for Amin.Tuyakov Prize – the first in history World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Medal Events in Asia – Saturday (27th).
As the opening round of this year's World Indoor Tour Gold Tournament, many athletes will begin their 2024 activities in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. A total of seven gold meetings are featured on the World Indoor Tour calendar, with a wildcard entry to the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24 also available.
It all started in Astana, where Duplantis will be competing for the first time since breaking his world record to 6.23 meters at the Wanda Diamond League finals in Eugene in September.
This is the second world record of the year for the 24-year-old from Sweden, who also broke 6.22m in Clermont-Ferrand in February.
He went on to defend his world title at the Budapest Games in August and is now aiming for two more world gold medals in 2024 at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and the Olympics in Paris.
He will be aiming for a strong start in Astana, where he will be joined by Norway's Sondre Guttormsen, who cleared the 6.00m national record last year, as well as American Cole Walsh, Belgium's Ben Broders and Germany's Oleg. Zernickel, a player from China, will also be participating. Chung Tao.
In the women's high jump, Kazakhstan's Nadezhda Dubovitskaya set an Asian record of 2.00 meters in 2021 and won a bronze medal at the 2022 World Indoor Championships, while in the men's shot put, NACAC champion Roger Steen of the United States competed.
In the women's long jump, Romania's world bronze medalist Alina Rotaru-Kottmann will compete against Serbia's Milica Gardasevic and Asian Games champion Xiong Shiqi of China.
Vertesi road to track
After breaking the world record and winning the mile title at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Riga 23 in October, Ethiopia's Diribe Weltezi will run the distance for the first time in Astana.
The 21-year-old, who won silver in the 1500m at last year's World Championships in Budapest, broke his first road mile record by winning in Riga with a time of 4:20.98.
Last season on the World Indoor Tour, she won the 3,000 meters in Libin with a personal best time of 8:33.44.
The world champions will face off in Astana between Ethiopia's compatriot Ashmawit Embaye, a two-time world indoor 1500m silver medalist, and Kazakhstan's Daisy Jepkemey, who won the national 3000m steeplechase.
Fast times are expected in the men's 3,000m as well, with Ethiopia's two-time indoor 1,500m world champion and former world record holder Samuel Tefera joining his compatriot who finished fourth in the Olympic 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 7:24.98. He will face off against Getnet Wale. 2021 is the 3000m in Liewing.
sprint showdown
The women's and men's 60m hurdles athletes will need to get through their heats before advancing to the finals that conclude Saturday's program.
American Ali is a two-time world champion in the indoor 60m hurdles, winning gold medals in Sopot in 2014 and Portland in 2016, and world title in the 100m hurdles in Doha in 2019.
In Astana, she will line up alongside athletes such as Jamaica's Olympic bronze medalist Megan Tapper and Evonne Britton of the United States, while in the second heat she will be joined by Nigeria's 2022 World 100m Hurdles Champion Tobi Amusan and Ireland's Sarah Amusan. Rabin, American Alesha Johnson appears.
In the men's event, Britain's 2018 world indoor champion Andrew Pozzi returned from injury. Pozzi is currently coached by two-time 110m hurdles world champion Colin Jackson, whose entry list also includes Cuba's Roger Iriban, Cyprus' Milan Trajković and Kuwait's Yakub Aljuha. , will be competing for the first time since February last year.
There will also be a qualifying round for the 60m, and in the men's race, Canada's De Grasse holds a personal best of 6.60, set in 2015, and will compete in his first indoor race since 2021.
As well as winning gold in the 200m, de Grasse won 4x100m silver and 100m bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, and the 29-year-old will have the chance to defend his title in Paris in August. It turns out.
100m champion Rohan Watson of Jamaica, two-time world relay medalist Shuhei Tada of Japan, 2019 European indoor gold medalist Jan Volko of Slovakia, Demek Kemp of the United States, and 2014 world indoor champion Great Britain. Richard Quilty has also entered.
In the women's event, Jamaica's World Championship and Olympic 4x100m gold medalist Natasha Morrison will take on compatriot Kristania Williams and Asian indoor champion Farzaneh Fassihi in the first heat, while Jamaica's U20 world champion will compete in the second heat. She will be competing against Tina Clayton, the 100m champion who ran a time of 7.02 seconds in Kingston. last year. Her rivals include Anthony Strachan of the Bahamas, Destiny Smith-Barnett of the United States and Alexandra Burkhardt of Germany.
In the men's 400m, three-time world indoor champion Pavel Maslak of the Czech Republic will take on Jamaica's Rasheen McDonald, while Jamaica's world indoor bronze medalist Stephanie Ann Macpherson will lead the entry in the women's race. ing.
