Norway’s 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen earned a landmark 5,000m
victory at the Diamond League meeting in Florence over a field
including Uganda’s world record holder Joshua Cheptegei as he set a
European record of 12min 48.45sec, the fastest run this year.
NBIGP Preview: The Best US Indoor Meet of 2021 Season Is Saturday
February 12, 2021
While the Millrose Games and USATF Indoor Championships have both fallen by the wayside in 2021, the third mainstay of the US professional indoor circuit, the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, has endured. Despite a move to Staten Island’s Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex (the meet’s usual venue, the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston, is being used as a mass vaccination site), NBIGP will be back for its 26th edition on Saturday.
And thank goodness for that, because this meet is
stacked. There are sprint stars (
Trayvon Bromell,