ASTANA, Kazakstan, CMC -Jamaican Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson is about to make his much-anticipated indoor debut on January 25 on the Astana Indoor Meet for the Amin Tuyakov Prizes, the opening occasion of the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold collection.
The 23-year-old Thompson, who claimed 100m silver on the Paris 2024 Olympics with a blistering 9.79, will compete within the 60m in Kazakhstan. Whereas this can mark his first indoor competitors, Thompson boasts a private better of 6.67 for the space, achieved outdoor in 2022.
The previous Garvey Maceo Excessive College sprinter will face stiff competitors in Astana from Canada’s Andre De Grasse, the Tokyo Olympic 200m champion, who clocked 6.66 in final 12 months’s 60m remaining on the identical meet.
The ladies’s 60m guarantees to be equally thrilling. It should characteristic Jamaican twins Tia and Tina Clayton, compatriot Natasha Morrison, and Bahamian standout Anthonique Strachan. The ladies’s 400m will see a conflict between Barbados’ Sada Williams and Jamaica’s Janieve Russell.
