Paris Olympic medalists headline NYRR Wanamaker Mile at 117th Millrose Games
Yared Nuguse eyes three-peat at iconic indoor Mile race
From World Athletics
Olympic and World indoor medalists Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse will renew their rivalry and Paris Olympic 1500m medalists Jessica Hull (silver) and Georgia Bell (bronze) lead the women’s field for the NYRR Wanamaker Mile at the 117th Millrose Games – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meet – in New York on Saturday, February 8.
Great Britain’s Kerr, the world 1500m champion, won the World indoor 3000m title on home soil in Glasgow last year and went on to secure 1500m silver at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In both Glasgow and Paris, he finished one place ahead of USA’s Nuguse.
Nuguse is a two-time Wanamaker Mile champion who clocked 3:47.83 in 2024 and his PR and American record of 3:47.38 in 2023, while Kerr has an indoor Mile PR of 3:48.87 (#5 AT), set in 2022. Those times by Nuguse are #2 and #3 on the world indoor Mile all-time list behind the world record of 3:47.01 set by Yomif Kejelcha in Boston in 2019. Kerr also raced at the Millrose Games last year and set a world best for two miles of 8:00.67.
They have never raced each other in an indoor Mile, but Kerr won their sole clash over the distance outdoors at the Prefontaine Classic last year, while their career outdoor 1500m head-to-head record in finals stands 3-2 in Nuguse’s favor.
In New York, they will be joined by USA’s World road Mile champion and Paris Olympian Hobbs Kessler and Britain’s Neil Gourley, who each respectively finished second to Nuguse in the past two editions of the Wanamaker Mile, plus Italy’s Pietro Arese and Azeddine Habz of France.
Wanamaker Mile challengers to Hull and Bell include Americans Nikki Hiltz, Emily Mackay, Heather MacLean, Sinclaire Johnson and Elise Cranny, Kenyan Susan Ejore, New Zealander Maia Ramsden and Italian Sinta Vissa.
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