Goule, McLeod to open seasons at Millrose Games
Published:Thursday | December 30, 2021 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer
OMAR MCLEOD, 2016 Olympic Games men’s 110 metres hurdles champion, and Tokyo World Championships women’s 800 metres finalist, Natoya Goule, are down to compete at the 114th Millrose Games at the Armory New Balance Track and Field Centre in New York.
McLeod, who missed out on making the Jamaica team to last year’s World Championships in Tokyo after finishing at the back of the field in the 110m hurdles at the National Senior Championships, will compete in the men’s 60-metre dash.
The former hurdles champion will go up against two of the best in the event in the United States duo of Christian Coleman and Trayvon Bromell.
Coleman, who is the men’s 60-metre world record holder at 6.34 seconds and who mined gold in the 100 metres and 4x100 relay at the 2019 Olympic Games, is returning to competition after missing the Tokyo Olympics, courtesy of an 18-month suspension for whereabouts violation.
Bromell, who was the fastest man over the 100 metres last year with 9.76 seconds and who is the 2016 World champion in the 60 metres, failed to make the 100-metre final in Tokyo last year and will be hoping for some form of redemption here.
Goule, the country’s most successful female 800-metre athlete, will contest her pet event where she will come up against the United States teenaged sensation, Athing Mu, who won the event in Tokyo, and her countrywoman, Ajee Wilson, the Indoor female record holder in the event.