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Jessica Hull and Georgia Bell finished second and third respectively at the Paris Olympic Games and will meet again in a span of one week in the US in February.
Paris Olympic 1500m silver medalist Jessica Hull and Great Britain's Georgia Bell will clash in two World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings within one week when they race the 3000m in Boston and then the mile in New York in February.
Australia’s Hull gave her best performance to date in Paris, while Bell settled for bronze over the distance as the pair rekindle their rivalry in the United States. Those medals were claimed in a season that also saw Hull set a world 2000m record and multiple Oceanian records, and Bell break the British 1500m record and become a European silver medallist.
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11:30 - 24.11.2024
How Faith Kipyegon's fierce rival Jessica Hull's decision to return home to Australia after US stint proved a masterstroke
Hull spent seven years training in the United States before deciding to return home to Australia.
First they will meet in the 3000m at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on February 2, the discipline in which Hull finished fourth at last year’s World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where Bell claimed the same place finish in the 1500m final. Hull won last year's 3000m in Boston in 8:24.93.
Then they will race in the Millrose Games Wanamaker Mile in New York on February 8, where their rivals will include Nikki Hiltz and Elise Cranny. In Boston the pair will join the already announced Parker Valby in the 3000m.
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06:37 - 28.10.2024
'That memory will stay with me forever'- Briton star recounts unforgettable 1500m final at Paris Olympic Games
Olympic bronze medalist Georgia Bell, reflecting on her all-out performance in the 1500m final at the Paris Olympics, expressed pride in leaving everything on the track and achieving an unforgettable podium finish.
The men’s 60m in Boston will feature the past two Olympic 100m champions, with Italy’s Marcell Jacobs added to a field that already features USA’s Noah Lyles.
Jacobs is the 2022 world indoor 60m champion, while Lyles secured 60m silver at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow last year.
Another Olympic champion in action in Boston is USA’s Rai Benjamin, the Olympic 400m hurdles gold medallist, who will return to indoor competition this season for the first time since 2021. He takes on the 300m, with his Olympic 4x400m gold medal-winning teammate Vernon Norwood among his rivals.
Double Olympic medallist Grant Fisher, who got 5000m and 10,000m bronze in Paris, will line up alongside the already announced 2022 world champion Jake Wightman in the 1500m.
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