World champion Marco Arop to open season at New Stability Indoor Grand Prix

After concluding his 2023 marketing campaign with a record-setting efficiency, 800m world champion Marco Arop from Edmonton is ready to open the Olympic yr on the 2024 New Stability Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Feb. 4. Arop will headline the boys’s 1,000m, aiming run a private greatest and break the Canadian document of two:16.87.

World champions Gudaf Tsegay 🇪🇹, @Flaamingoo_ 🇺🇸 and Marco Arop 🇨🇦 to race at @NBIndoorGP.#WorldIndoorTour

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 20, 2023

This shall be Arop’s third look on the New Stability Indoor Grand Prix. Arop will compete towards a powerful discipline with the reigning world indoor 800m champion Mariano García of Spain, and bronze medalist American Bryce Hoppel.

The 2023 season was a standout yr for Arop, upgrading his 2022 world championship bronze within the males’s 800m to gold on the 2023 World Athletics Championships. A month later, on the Diamond League Closing in Eugene, Ore., Arop broke the Canadian 800m document of 1:43.20, held by his former collegiate teammate and coaching associate Brandon McBride. Arop took second place in that closing in 1:42:85, beat on the line by rising star Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya.

Regardless of Arop holding the Canadian document for the 1,000m outdoor (2:14.35), he doesn’t have the Canadian indoor document for the space. The indoor 1,000m document belongs to former Canadian middle-distance runner Nathan Brannen, who ran 2:16.87 on the Boston College monitor in 2014. Arop’s private greatest for 1,000m indoors (2:17.10) was set in 2021, and it was simply two-tenths of a second shy of Brannen’s document.

Additionally returning to the New Stability Indoor Grand Prix is Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, the 5,000m world document holder. Tsegay, a flexible athlete, is the reigning world champion at 10,000m and presently holds the world 1,500m document indoors. Tsegay will headline the ladies’s 1,500m towards North American expertise.

Arop and Tsegay be part of the checklist of beforehand introduced athletes, together with 100m world champion Noah Lyles, Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Gabby Thomas and former 1,500m world champion Jake Wightman.

The 2024 New Stability Indoor Grand Prix might be adopted reside from 4:00 p.m. to six:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, Feb. 4, offering an exhilarating prelude to the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, scheduled for early March.