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NBC Sports
23-03-2025
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Josh Hoey, Claire Bryant, relays add U.S. golds to close World Indoor Championships
Josh Hoey (800m) and Claire Bryant (long jump) won gold medals in their global championship debuts as the U.S. finished the World Indoor Track and Field Championships atop the medal standings. The U.S. men's and women's 4x400m relays also prevailed Sunday in Nanjing, China. Hoey held off Belgian Eliott Crestan by four hundredths to take the men's 800m in 1:44.77. Hoey missed the 2024 Olympic team by one spot, then last month ran the second-fastest indoor 800m in history (1:43.24). Bryant won the women's long jump with a personal best leap of 6.96 meters. Bryant, a 23-year-old former Florida Gator, was 10th at the 2024 Olympic Trials. WORLD INDOORS: Full Results The U.S. previously picked up gold medals on Saturday from Grant Holloway (60m hurdles) and Chris Bailey (400m). World Indoors highlights air Sunday at 12 p.m. ET on NBC and 3:30 on CNBC. Also Sunday, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen followed Saturday's 3000m title with a victory in the 1500m. He's the second man to win the two longest events at the same indoor worlds after Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie in 1999. Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay won the women's 1500m in 3:54.86, the fourth-fastest time in history, to crush the field by 4.46 seconds. Tsegay owns all of the four fastest times in history, including the world record of 3:53.09. The outdoor season ramps up next month with the debut of the Grand Slam Track series. The first meet is April 4-6 in Kingston, Jamaica, with live coverage on Peacock. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
21-03-2025
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Chase Jackson takes shot put bronze to open World Indoor Track and Field Championships
American Chase Jackson took shot put bronze on the first day of the World Indoor Track and Field Championships, giving her a medal in the last five World Championships indoors and outdoors. Jackson threw 20.06 meters, finishing behind repeat champion Sarah Mitton of Canada (20.48) and Dutchwoman Jessica Schilder (20.07) in Nanjing, China, on Friday. Jackson previously won world outdoor gold in 2022 and 2023 and world indoor silver in 2022 and bronze in 2024. Jackson has bounced back from being eliminated in qualifying at the Paris Olympics. Two weeks after that, she launched the second-farthest throw in American history (20.64 meters, just shy of her American outdoor record 20.76). WORLD INDOORS: Full Results | Broadcast Schedule Last month, she won her fifth U.S. indoor title and broke the American indoor record by throwing 20.24. 'I'm riding that disappointment into something good instead of something bad,' Jackson told RunnerSpace at the USA Track and Field Indoor Championships in February. 'Technically, I feel like I look better than I've ever looked.' Also Friday, Brit Jeremiah Azu won the men's 60m in 6.49 seconds. He edged Australian Lachlan Kennedy by one hundredth. American Ronnie Baker was fastest in the semifinals (6.51), then finished sixth in the final after grabbing the back of his left thigh in the closing strides. South Korean Woo Sang-Hyeok won his second world indoor title in the high jump. He cleared 2.31 meters, while Olympic gold medalist Hamish Kerr of New Zealand took silver with a 2.28-meter clearance. World Indoors continue later Friday at 10:05 p.m. ET with the next session of qualifying heats. The next finals session is Saturday at 6:35 a.m. ET. All sessions air live on Peacock. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
17-03-2025
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- NBC Sports
2025 World Indoor Track and Field Championships TV, live stream schedule
The World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Nanjing, China, air live from Thursday through Sunday on Peacock with additional coverage on NBC and CNBC. The fields feature Olympic 110m hurdles champion Grant Holloway, who bids to become the first person to win three consecutive World Indoor 60m hurdles titles. Holloway has won more than 70 consecutive 60m hurdles races dating to his last defeat in 2014 as a high school sophomore, according to track and field results database The standard high hurdles distance for outdoor meets like the Olympics is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. For indoor meets, it's 60 meters. The U.S. roster for worlds also includes Sam Kendricks (two-time world outdoor pole vault champion), Chase Jackson (two-time world outdoor shot put champion) and Josh Hoey, who last month ran the second-fastest indoor 800m in history. Internationally, the headliners are Olympic 1500m and 5000m gold medalist Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway, world outdoor 5000m and 10,000m champion Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia and two-time Olympic champions Mondo Duplantis of Sweden (pole vault) and Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece (long jump). Full entry lists are here. 2025 World Indoor Championships Broadcast Schedule *Delayed broadcast Nick Zaccardi,
